SPLITTER 4YRS TAU SIGNED

UDRIH14 · Post #1 » by **UDRIH14** » Fri Jun 6, 2008 4:54 am

It has been reported his signed with TAU for 4 years

fok the spurs FO are overrated

first it was jax lowballing contract
then came javtokas
scola
now splitter....

javtokas still has a chance of comin over....

magicfan4life05 · Post #2 » by **magicfan4life05** » Fri Jun 6, 2008 4:59 am

Just my opinion, but I think it's more of a trend for European players to just forget about the NBA and play overseas because they can flat out make more money and then later if they want to challenge themselves maybe come to the NBA later in their career just for the heck of it and say that they did.

Hopefully the spurs find a way to replace him and reload at that position.

HarlemHeat37 · Post #3 » by **HarlemHeat37** » Fri Jun 6, 2008 5:06 am

well money(among lesser things) was obviously the issue, but I'm sure if the NBA was actually his dream, he would have taken less money to come play and prove himself for more $ and respect..

IMO, it's a matter of a pussy being scared to play with the big boys..**** Splitter..

hopefully RC can actually live up to his reputation in the off-season coming up and actually get some young talent around our star players..if he doesn't make any good moves in this off-season, I wouldn't mind seeing him go..maybe it's just me though..

Blame Rasho · Post #4 » by **Blame Rasho** » Fri Jun 6, 2008 5:43 am

Well that **** suck...

I can't blame him... he is right now Spain's highest paid basketball player...

ss1986v2 · Post #5 » by **ss1986v2** » Fri Jun 6, 2008 6:07 am

Blame Rasho wrote:Well that **** suck...

I can't blame him... he is right now Spain's highest paid basketball player...

exactly. you cant blame a guy for taking nearly 8 times the salary and being the man on a team where he has already helped lead them to a championship.

if someone told you that you could make 100k right now where you are, or move to budapest and make 16k for a couple of years, and then maybe they'd give you a raise, what would you do?

Blame Rasho · Post #6 » by **Blame Rasho** » Fri Jun 6, 2008 6:13 am

I am waiting for the figures to come out but he might be one of the highest paid players in Europe and with the Euro at what 1.57 to the USD. It just make his choice that much easier. Eh... the piss poor US economy :S

Ballings7 · Post #7 » by **Ballings7** » Fri Jun 6, 2008 6:14 am

*sigh*

It doesn't surprise me, but it's still quite unfortunate for us

On the other side, good for Splitter

At least there's younger, mobile big men options in the draft (homeland!) and FA - pretty good, too. Along with Mahinmi.

tuncaboylu · Post #8 » by **tuncaboylu** » Fri Jun 6, 2008 7:13 am

No problem, forget Splitter.
We already don't have enough time to wait him joining and adjusting to NBA. I'm worried only for a reason, his trade value is dipped after that extension. We should get Artest this year's trade deadline by using Splitter's rights.

johnnyjohnnyjohnny · Post #9 » by **johnnyjohnnyjohnny** » Fri Jun 6, 2008 12:13 pm

I love throwing away first round picks.

I I said in the other thread, I don't want anybody here who doesn''t think he's ready to be the best in the big boy league.

Agree w/ Spurs Front Office being overrated. I've said it before and I've said it again and I'll say it again again. We have not had a worthwhile draft pick since Tony Parker in '01.

DBMethos · Post #10 » by **DBMethos** » Fri Jun 6, 2008 1:38 pm

Is this the last straw as far as using draft picks on foreign talent? Time to get domestic again.

lukeridenour · Post #11 » by **lukeridenour** » Fri Jun 6, 2008 6:42 pm

when it rains it pours, this is certainly devasting news.

SMRattler · Post #12 » by **SMRattler** » Fri Jun 6, 2008 7:26 pm

If we pick another 18 yr old overseas player this year I want RC's head on a stick.

Blame Rasho · Post #13 » by **Blame Rasho** » Fri Jun 6, 2008 8:05 pm

Well good news... we can't draft 18 year olds

Post #14 » by **SD2042** » Fri Jun 6, 2008 10:46 pm

Not surprising, but yet unfortunate for the Spurs. It's time for the Spurs FO to pull a hat trick out their a**es.

Ballings7 · Post #15 » by **Ballings7** » Sat Jun 7, 2008 12:42 am

DBMethos wrote:Is this the last straw as far as using draft picks on foreign talent? Time to get domestic again

I think we will and have to this year... there's just several nice prospects around where we'll pick, and that are fitting for us.

SG/SF or big man

JTSUCF · Post #16 » by **JTSUCF** » Sat Jun 7, 2008 3:33 am

It could be worse.

You could have wasted a lottery pick on him like my beloved Magic did with Fran Vasquez.

tuncaboylu · Post #17 » by **tuncaboylu** » Sat Jun 7, 2008 7:48 am

Yes, he was our 28th pick last year. We didn't lost too much at all, because there wasn't too many good guys in our 28th pick. That's why, don't worry too much.
As I said before, my only concern is decreasing trade value of Splitter now.

Post #18 » by **SD2042** » Sat Jun 7, 2008 8:03 am

JTSUCF wrote:It could be worse.

You could have wasted a lottery pick on him like my beloved Magic did with Fran Vasquez.

Just put that piece of memory out of it's misery and move on. It's all you can do. :nod:

Blame Rasho · Post #19 » by **Blame Rasho** » Sat Jun 7, 2008 9:41 pm

The thing is that the NBA isn't the only place where you can make the big bucks....

Post #20 » by **Nolan** » Sun Jun 8, 2008 5:06 am

Bad news for us but i'm not blaming RC on this one. He took the BPA even though there was some risk involved in picking him. Really at 28 there were no one else worth while. If Tiaggo was coming over he would be one of the biggest steals of the 07 draft. It was one of those situations where the possible reward was high and the risk was fairly low.