The All-Spurs (Mostly) Reject Franchise

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The All-Spurs (Mostly) Reject Franchise 

Post#1 » by Cruel_Ruin » Mon Mar 3, 2008 10:53 pm

How good would this team be:

PG: Beno Udrih
SG: John Salmons
SF: Stephen Jackson
PF: Luis Scola
C: Tim Duncan

Coach: PJ Carlesimo
GM: Kevin Pritchard

Luckily, the Spurs are very generous with their superfluous talent.
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Post#2 » by SOUL » Mon Mar 3, 2008 10:55 pm

Turkoglu was a reject too, missing a couple that I forgot.
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Post#3 » by farzi » Mon Mar 3, 2008 10:56 pm

How was Duncan a reject exactly?
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Post#4 » by Cruel_Ruin » Mon Mar 3, 2008 11:01 pm

farzi wrote:How was Duncan a reject exactly?


:banghead: Some people just love to split hairs.

Hedo's a good one, but he wasn't drafted by the Spurs. Barbosa is another one that you could add.
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Post#5 » by mudyez » Mon Mar 3, 2008 11:13 pm

lol...wondering how this list looks for other teams....I dont understand timmy beeing on the list

and I'm pretty sure the spurs would do all of these things again, as it freed up capspace and so on

thats why they are a great franchise...they build from the draft and are smart enought not to go isiah and hand out big contracts, that are not worth the players (even rasho wasnt that bad)
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Post#6 » by Promezclan » Mon Mar 3, 2008 11:28 pm

Cruel_Ruin wrote:-= original quote snipped =-



:banghead: Some people just love to split hairs.

Hedo's a good one, but he wasn't drafted by the Spurs. Barbosa is another one that you could add.

Um, it's hardly splitting hairs when it violates the only rule for picking and is by far the largest determinant of what the the answer to the question is (how good the team is).
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Post#7 » by Cruel_Ruin » Mon Mar 3, 2008 11:42 pm

Promezclan wrote:-= original quote snipped =-


Um, it's hardly splitting hairs when it violates the only rule for picking and is by far the largest determinant of what the the answer to the question is (how good the team is).


Sigh... completely missing the point. The underlying message is that if the Spurs built a team around Duncan completely with players they gave up on, it would still be a pretty good team. I suppose I have to state everything literally for some people to understand.
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Post#8 » by mudyez » Mon Mar 3, 2008 11:42 pm

yeah...it like asking how the best rebounding team with only under 6'foot players would look like and putting dwight howard at center!
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Post#9 » by Cruel_Ruin » Mon Mar 3, 2008 11:45 pm

Do you people think I'm an idiot or something? I obviously don't think Duncan is a reject. The question is, how good would a team be if it was players the Spurs franchise gave away practically for free around Duncan? You'd think people would understand that seeing Tim Freaking Duncan on the team.

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Post#10 » by tha_rock220 » Tue Mar 4, 2008 12:14 am

Cruel_Ruin wrote:Do you people think I'm an idiot or something? I obviously don't think Duncan is a reject. The question is, how good would a team be if it was players the Spurs franchise gave away practically for free around Duncan? You'd think people would understand that seeing Tim Freaking Duncan on the team.

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It's ok dude, I understand what you were saying. Like all teams lead by Tim Duncan they would probably do no worse than 54 games won and get into the 2nd round.
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Post#11 » by BirdIsDaKing » Tue Mar 4, 2008 12:58 am

Cruel_Ruin wrote:Do you people think I'm an idiot or something? I obviously don't think Duncan is a reject. The question is, how good would a team be if it was players the Spurs franchise gave away practically for free around Duncan? You'd think people would understand that seeing Tim Freaking Duncan on the team.

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Dude, your an idiot for thinking that someone is going to read in your mind. You need to make things clear you know.

If that was the question you should have said so to begin with, instead of being vague with your question.
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Post#12 » by netsforever » Tue Mar 4, 2008 5:06 am

Heh... All ex-Nets team:

C: Dikembe Mutombo / Alonzo Mourning
PF: Kenyon Martin / P.J. Brown
SF: Brian "The Legend" Scalabrine
SG: Kyle Korver / Antoine Wright
PG: Jason Kidd/ Sam Cassell / Stephon Marbury

All-ex Phoenix team is pretty good:
C: Kurt Thomas
PF: Shawn Marion
SF: Luol Deng / Quentin Richardson
SG: Joe Johnson / Micheal Finley
PG: Jason Kidd / Stephon Marbury / Marcus Banks

Or All ex-Orlando:
C: Shaquille O'Neal / Chris Webber
PF: Ben Wallace / Drew Gooden
SF: Tracy McGrady / Matt Harpring
SG: Mike Miller / Gordon Giricek
PG: Darrell Armstrong

Or All ex-Toronto:
C: Marcus Camby
PF: Chris Bosh / Antawn Jamison
SF: Vince Carter / Morris Peterson
SG: Tracy McGrady / Kareem Rush
PG: Damon Stoudamire
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Post#13 » by penbeast0 » Tue Mar 4, 2008 8:42 pm

heck, all your Rapter starters but Bosh played together in Toronto Tmac's rookie year with a couple of other good pieces like All-D swingman Doug Christie plus Chauncy Billups being brought in for Stoudamire . . . (and the team still sucked). Got to have some team spirit as well as talent.
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