Gooden Commits to Spurs

[SD2042]

Personally, I'm not a Gooden fan by any means. However for the Spurs, it's a good move to pick up a fresh body at the PF position. Gooden at least can contribute on offense by hitting the mid range jumper and on defense by hitting the boards pretty good. His defense is decent, but could be better. Solid move by the Spurs.

[J-Mart]

Gooden is a pretty good scorer and rebounder. But he will always give up more points than he scores. His D really is bad, he was the worst defender on the Bulls while he was here.

[hype_2004]

You'll learn to tune Gooden4Life out rather quickly.

As for Gooden, he is literally the worst big man defender in the world today. He rotates the wrong way, constantly. He can score inside and out, but generally sticks to the out these days. Good rebounding instincts, but he's only of backup calibre. Not that there's anything wrong with that, though. Stick with Bonner as the starter and essentially you've just upgraded Oberto. Which is fine.

I have a feeling Duncan and Pop will make him a much better player, and will definitely cover his weakness on defense. This is a very underrated solid, solid signing and will pay dividends once the playoff starts, this is quite similar when Detroit acquired Sheed mid-season, San Antonio just became a top threat for the NBA title with the signing of Drew Gooden.

[hype_2004]

Gooden is a pretty good scorer and rebounder. But he will always give up more points than he scores. His D really is bad, he was the worst defender on the Bulls while he was here.

San Antornio team defense>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>Bulls team defense not even close.