Rating our Offseason

[the southern dandy]

Let's discuss how our offseason turned out.

Bonner Resigning - For me this was our horror move of the offseason. This man simply lacks the talent and heart to be a major piece in a long playoff run. He was embarassingly poor in the Suns series. However, despite all of his flaws Bonner is still a reasonably safe player to have around. It's hard to see Bonner taking a back seat with the contract he was given.

Signing draft pick James Anderson - Anderson will look to be an upgrade from the horrific season Mason J.r just put forward. We all know about his shooting but I'm hoping his experience in playing the pick and roll will allow him to become a lead contributor off the bench. With the way the roster is looking right now I have a feeling that Anderson will be seeing some minutes at the 3 spot.

Signing Tiago Splitter - This was the major achievement of the Spurs this offseason. I have extremely high hopes for Splitter. I believe he's going to be the opening night starter. He's not your usual rookie. Interestingly if you look at the rotation Splitter has replaced Mahinmi. A huge upgrade.

Signing Gary Neal - This move really seems pointless to me. His skillset seems to duplicate that of Anderson's. It won't hurt to have another shooter around who has typically been successful at every level he's played at. I don't think he makes the rotation.

Resigning Richard Jefferson - This is where my opinion is likely to be disagreed with. I viewed the Jefferson signing as a must for the Spurs. Despite the ill fit Jefferson is still an very talented small forward with legitimate size. If this signing didn't take place we'd be looking at someone like Alonzo Gee starting.


I think we've definitely improved just through the Splitter signing alone. I still believe that there are signings that need to take place. The current roster is:

PG - Tony Parker/ George Hill/ Garrett Temple/ Curtis Jerrels
SG - Manu Ginobili/ James Anderson/ Gary Neal
SF - Richard Jefferson/ Alonzo Gee
PF - Tim Duncan/ Dejuan Blair/ Matt Bonner
C - Tiago Splitter/ Antonio McDyess


Assuming Jerrels is on the way out, it looks like the Spurs have a few roster spots to fill before opening night. I'd like to see a veteran big man with legit size and a solid understanding of the game. I think we also need another real small forward on the roster.
Veterans will be the path taken as it's clear the Spurs are planning on seeing what the youth can contribute.

[Donald Kaufman]

Solid offseason. B- to a B.

I hate RJ and feel we could've done better, but we had no other options available to us. I personally think a guy like Matt Barnes could've been as productive at a fraction of the cost. Better defensive player as well, by far.

Love that Splitter is finally coming over. Love the Anderson pick.

IMO, this is the 2nd straight offseason that management got it right. Last seasons result was not necessarily indicative of that but it was a good offseason regardless.

[Nolan]

Like what we did in the draft by picking up Anderson and Richards. Love that we finally brought over Splitter, he's going to be a very good player for us in the future. Not a big fan of resigning RJ to that terrible contract. We could of gotten a much more productive player for alot less.

Overall i'd give our offseason a B. We added some young talent that should contribute for us next year, but I really think that RJ's contract to going to hold us back in the future.

[Donald Kaufman]

Darius Miles is working out for the team??? Per thread on GB.

NOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!

[Nolan]

Darius Miles is working out for the team??? Per thread on GB.

NOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!

I really really doubt he makes the team. The guy has no basketball skills, the only talent he ever had was being a great athlete and now he has no knees and he's overweight.

[co_laper]

Overall, we did well... B is the grade I'll give.

Bonner signing is horrible IMO. It's horrible mainly because of the price. I think most of us are expecting him to atleast be the last big off the bench behind Duncan, Splitter, Blair, and Dice. With the money he got, he's likely to be a starter or the first big off the bench until someone clearly knocks him off. Right now, Bonner and Dice remains Tim Duncan's best frontcourt partner until Blair develops a jumper or Splitter shows us something pretty amazing.

Anderson drafting is great obviously. We needed his shooting in the worst way possible.

Gary Neal, I don't know.. he shots the lights out in Vegas, but at the same time he was making some pretty tough shots. He looks like a good catch and shoot player but his size is going to be a problem for him in terms of getting minutes on the floor. Signed for 3 years on a cheap cheap contract. Doesn't hurt at all even if he sucks real bad.

Splitter. Considering the hype, the future, the potential, and the contract he got, ofcourse it's a great great pickup. Nothing to hate here. Possible starter, likely future Center for the Spurs, perfect timing, cheap contract.

Jefferson. Unless the Spurs could snatch guys like Barnes or anybody who could really challange Jefferson for the Starting SF position, then it was a must to resign Jefferson.

[dropshot001]

i'd say it was a solid off season. could be upgraded depending on how splitter pans out

[Donald Kaufman]

It's a long way off, but next offseason we should look into Jared Dudlley from Phx. They haven't offered him an extension yet and seem happy to throw their money at stiffs like Channing Frye.

We should nab him, he's a great shooter and defender.

[Nolan]

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I'd love to steal Dudley from the Suns.