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Mitch Cumsteen

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  1. 4 hours ago, Gut Wagon said:

    Tatum's great. No doubt about that part. I'd welcome him to SA. But as we're currently more than a player away from being elite (in my view) and aren't likely to get any great draft picks of our own in the reasonably near future, it does indeed depend on what else Boston might include in a trade. Of course, there's no guarantee they'd include Tatum.

    My pipe dream is a Philly deal involving Simmons. But I guess every other fan/GM/coach would say as much.

    We actually are a player away from being elite. That player is Kawhi Leonard.

    With regard to trade scenarios... if you think Boston is leery of injuries because of Kyrie and Hayward, Philly has it worse with Embiid and Fultz. Shit, even Simmons missed his entire rookie season. 

  2. That was enlightening. The stuff that was less well known is the business arrangement between Frankel (his agent) and Uncle Dennis. Especially now that it seems like whatever Frankel had planned for Impact Sports has fallen apart. He's got no sports agency any more. Now he's probably in scramble mode, owes money all over town, and the only asset they have appears to be Kawhi. So his agent is up against it and he's got to leverage Leonard for as much cash as possible. Plus he's got his uncle gravy training him because none of the other agents would touch Uncle Dennis. So they don't get what they want from Nike and instead of the agent taking responsibility for the negotiation or the way they've marketed (or as the case is, not marketed) Kawhi, he blames the size of the SA market. Get Kawhi to LA or NY and he gets more cash is the sell.

    Of course, none of that really explains why Kawhi couldn't get healthy enough to play. The idea that his injury is one more thing to blame on the Spurs in order to get him to a different market could be at play. But they know that he can't get the supermax anywhere else and the Spurs aren't going to give him up for less than equal value. Again, Spurs have all the leverage in this because of the last CBA. 

  3. Such a bizarre story. The guy just up and quits being a serial killer/rapist for 30 years to apparently lead a normal family life and then gets busted from a random relative uploading their DNA to one of the few sites that has no privacy filters in place.

  4. 13 hours ago, Machinator said:

    Should be one of the hottest names on the coaching market.

    Yeah... that thing with Bud in Atlanta had a bizarre trajectory. He went from random Spurs assistant to coach of the year to being both coach and GM after Danny Ferry shot himself in the foot and then got his power stripped from him. The front office handled that poorly. They should have never put him in charge of everything. Now they are in a massive rebuild.

    He's a good coach, though. Probably the best of all the Pop assistants. 

  5. I think Danny Green opts in, unfortunately. Nobody else is paying him $10 million next year. He was terrible this season. He just went 8-30 for the playoffs including 5-20 from three. He's a 3 and D guy on the wrong side of 30 who can't shoot and who they don't trust in the fourth quarters of games anymore. He also got exposed on defense this year because he has always been able to guard the other team's second best wing player with Kawhi in there.

    Parker is coming back for somewhere around $5 million per, depending on how much they feel he's been underpaid for his career. He's taken a couple of team friendly deals and they will make him whole. People will bitch like crazy because he clearly can't play anymore, but it's the right thing to do and the Spurs thing to do.

    I selfishly hope Manu comes back, but whatever he decides should be celebrated.

    I hope Rudy Gay comes back. I don't think this is what he signed up for so he may go ring seeking and I wouldn't blame him one bit for opting out.

    Kyle Anderson is easy to bag on but he has improved year over year and knows the system. I'd like to see him back on a cap friendly deal. I don't think there will be a lot of suitors for him. He's a solid rotation guy who can eat up minutes in an 82 game season.

    As far as Kawhi goes, I would be stunned if they offer him the super max this summer. If he wants it, then he needs to come back next season and earn it. The Spurs have all the bargaining power here. The last CBA was all about the small market teams keeping their young stars. Even though the circumstances were much different, they sort of faced the same deal with Aldridge last Summer where they essentially told him that they could trade him, but would only receive pennies on the dollar back for him. Kawhi's situation essentially boils down to that. They aren't going to take lesser value for him. Period. So, they are going to have a come to Jesus meeting with him and tell him that if he comes back and plays, then he will get the super max. If he plays out next season and decides he wants to bolt SA, then he's going to give up tens of millions of dollars. It's pretty much that simple.

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  6. Welp.... that team gave it everything they had. I don't know what more you could have asked from them. Hate losing but they were so undermanned in that series. Durant and Thompson were just too good. 

    This may sound stupid, but I feel much better about the team and season after these last two games. The whole season has been bizarre and un-spurs like but they kept pounding the rock until the end. 

  7. Library talk not going away....

    Last night, my son had a strings performance in the basketball gym at Blossom Athletic Center in San Antonio. Right next to the gym is the football stadium where all the teams from the Northeast Independent School District play. I explain all of this to my wife and tell her about how I used to go to the football games there when I was in high school and also tell her about how the Spurs used to hold training camp in the basketball gym where we were sitting. About midway through the performance, while sitting inside the basketball gym, she turns to me and says, "They play football games in here?"

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  8. That game was like drinking an ice cold beer to wash down the shit sandwich of a season we've been fed. We will probably follow it up with warm piss chaser on Tuesday night, but it was nice to have something positive happen. This franchise really needed that considering everything else that has been going on.

    Fun game, fun win, and 20 years from now some idiot is going to be arguing with me that Manu Ginobili wasn't that good by citing a bunch of meaningless statistics that won't come close to doing justice to how great of a basketball player he truly was. Tim Duncan is the best player ever to wear a Spurs uniform but Emmanuel David Ginobili is the greatest Spur of all time.

    And two other things: (1) You can't be the first team to come back from 0-3 if you don't win game 4 (yeah, right) and (2) Spurs probably win game 2 of this series if they come anywhere close to shooting the ball like they did yesterday. Golden State hasn't been playing that well on defense. The Spurs just haven't been able to throw it in the ocean. Their shooters have struggled off and on this year, but they aren't nearly as terrible as they have been the first three games.

  9. It was borderline depressing to be there last night. It felt nothing like a playoff game. Terrible energy in the building. The team plays such disorganized basketball and even when they get good looks they can't throw it in the ocean. Then they get gashed on defense. I hate to use the analogy with what is going on with Pop, but it felt like a funeral. I really think this is the end, finally, of a 20 year unprecedented run.

    But getting back to actual basketball, I don't understand the Spurs strategy at all. Golden State is essentially trotting out 5 wings out there. They don't have a point guard. Here's a fucking idea: make one of those assholes who isn't used to bringing up the ball play against some pressure. Patty Mills can't guard in anybody in that starting lineup so instead of letting Klay Thompson abuse him on the block, have him press. Or use Dejounte Murray to press. Worst case scenario it makes them run some clock and burn some energy and gets them out of their comfort zone.

  10. I think they are going to struggle this year, but I don't think we are going to see the rash of decommits that we've seen in the past from them. We held onto almost all of our recruits (and I believe, all of the in-state ones) despite an underachieving season last year. I don't see any reason that they don't do the same no matter how well Texas does on the field. The overwhelming majority of these kids stick with their commitments. 

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  11. Feel terrible for Pop.

    I'm sure it was by design, but she was the  least publicly known or recognized spouse/important relative of any prominent Spur that I can ever recall. There was always someone around for everyone else -- Ice's wife Joyce way back in the day, David Robinson's dad Ambrose, Tim Duncan's two-timing whore wife, Manu's wife, Eva Longoria, Kawhi's mom and baby momma, etc. were always at the games. I never saw Pop's wife once, not even at team celebrations where other family members were. They showed some really old picture of her and Pop on TNT last night and that was the first time I ever saw what she looked like.

  12. 2 hours ago, BurdineBandit said:

    I wouldn't call this a good Patty game. He missed some 3s in the first half that advanced analytics guys would call 'wide motherfucking open' and finished 3/9 on the night. Aside from those back-to-back hero two-pointers that he put up in the 3rd or 4th quarter, he played pedestrian basketball.

     

    Danny on the other hand is a complete liability, and is making Pop pay for bringing him back off the bench in hopes that playoff Danny would show up. I'm 90% done with him. He's 30 years old and is still "developing" his offensive game. And the one thing he could do well he only does well at home now, and even then you're lucky to find a sliver of those 2014 performances.

    Agree with all of this.

    All the Kawhi talk has rightfully overshadowed the fact that Danny Green is a free agent this Summer. I heard some rumblings awhile back that some people in the organization thought Pop was purposefully benching him in fourth quarters to devalue him on the free agent market. But he's an abortion right now. I don't think there is anything anybody could do to lower his market value more than the giant turd he's laying out there.

  13. My 12 year old son is in the car and we're listening the radio. I had it on sports talk or something on AM and he's trying to find some music to listen to. He starts fidgeting with the knob and finally says, "I can't find any good music." I say to him, "Have you tried FM?" He says, "What is FM?"

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  14. The frustrating part about playing the Warriors isn't when Durant or Curry are doing otherworldly video game shit, or when Klay can't miss or when Green is acting like a bitch. No, the frustrating part is when scrubs like Livingston or McGee tear your ass up or Iguodala (note: not a scrub) starts killing you. That's the kind of shit that drives me crazy. You expect the great players to do great things, but their role players have just given the Spurs fits over the past couple of years.

    PS. Fuck you Zaza

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