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The San Antonio Spurs signed forward Marcus Williams of the Austin Toros today making him the 20th GATORADE Call-Up of the 2008-09 NBA Development League season.

Williams, a 6-7 forward, has played in 45 games, all starts, for the Toros this season, averaging 23.0 points, good for second-best in the NBA D-League, to go with 7.0 rebounds, 5.3 assists and 1.7 steals. He has scored in double figures 44 times, including a 29-point, 14-rebound, 13-assist triple-double in Austin’s 129-112 win over the Iowa Energy on April 4, 2009.

Now that Manu's done we needed another body on the bench and it looks its going to be Williams. He's a good shooter and a good ball handler but his defense is very questionable. Hopefully he at least he gets some PT.

Signing a player from the D-League is sponsored? That's pretty funny.

LyMinh wrote:Signing a player from the D-League is sponsored? That's pretty funny.

Its the D-league they need every dollar they can get

I find this move incredibly confusing. Statistically Williams was outstanding in the D-league this year, but he is a player of many limitations.
IIRC he lacks speed, athleticism and strength. Also during the 2007 summer league he showed no guard abilities at all.

I was really impressed with Malik, so Marcus better have done the impossible and turned himself into a viable NBA player.

Dont know if he can be much worse than Udoka and HE gets PT...

fodder replacing fodder...

Well I just don't have faith that Pop will give him PT.

Back in October they knew they needed explosive scoring off the bench.
They had Stoudamire and Desmon Farmer in camp.

They could have just kept one of those guys and let them grow over the year with the team.

Management jerked around the whole season.

With Manu's busted, worn, and unrested ankle the only chance the team had to win a tilte was to take a chance on a wild card player.

They wasted time and space with Anthony Tolliver, Blake Ahearn, and Malik Hairston.

They needed to have a big man do what Ryan Hollins is doing to them right now.
Darryl Watkins, CJ Giles, Chris Hunter, or Courtney Sims would have done just fine.

Now ending the season with Williams in the spot Farmer should have kept all season and been ready (at 27) to score, play defense, and be an emotional spark for the playoffs...

They had the right idea, just didn't follow through. They played it too safe.

I couldn't care less about the D-leaguers that we brought in. Blake, Malik, Tolliver.. The only player out of them that I hope we still have is Pops Mensah-bonsu... He's a very nice player from what I'm seeing.

co_laper wrote:I couldn't care less about the D-leaguers that we brought in. Blake, Malik, Tolliver.. The only player out of them that I hope we still have is Pops Mensah-bonsu... He's a very nice player from what I'm seeing.

I'll add Pops to my list of d-leaguers

It only matters if the player could bring something the team lacked.
Energy, effort, scoring, aggression.

My belief is that the team would have better if from the beginning players who could do what Farmer and Pops can do were incorporated in the team/rotation.

All the team needed was the small things it lacked to put it up their with the best in the league.