SB Nation User Blog: Bushka

I've heard very little regarding David Lee of late

Bushka — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 23:47:46 -0000

Is it possible that he might consider an MLE deal? He is a good rebounder and works hard, he obviously doesn't space the floor and is not an ideal fit, but i'd certainly prefer him than a platoon of Gooden and Pachulia/Rasho.

He seems committed to defence, and whilst he might not have the range we require he would be a very handy big to throw into a rotation. His young and would be a banger you could rely on for a lot of years to come. I honestly don't see him doing it but no one is jumping out of their skin to offer the guy the kind of money he seems to have been after (around 9 -10 million per).

Obviously now that I have written this Adrian Wojnarowski will have some free agent buzz inking him to the warriors at 11 million per.

Latest Ramblings on Draft day trading

Bushka — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 03:17:03 -0000

They are some kind of crazy over at Draft Express. Or rather not crazy but reporting rumours that seem CRAZY!

Draft Express Scroll Down to the Memphis Thabeet thing

To break it down they are talking about swapping picks with memphis with either of Shock & Hawes as "compensation" for the trade. Just nuts that we give one of those two up to move up two spots in this draft.

What say you the heaving huddled masses?

What are the chances

Bushka — Wed, 27 May 2009 07:36:26 -0000

Of trading up in the draft to the kind of area where we can get an interesting PG prospect.

Then sending that Pick to the Hawks for the rights to Josh Childress?

I know there is no way he plays for the hawks again after the way things went down, and they need to figure out what the hell they are going to do if they don't resign Mike Bibby now that Acie Law is a failed human, and flip murray is not a long term answer..?

I think this is something that would be a good thing for us long term.

So whats the team going to look like come this time next year

Bushka — Tue, 28 Apr 2009 07:19:10 -0000

Hopefully we will have Tim, who will be surrounding him, whats the rotation going to be like will Gooden stick around? Do we want him to? What will we do with George? Can he become a starter? Where do we put him? What about Roger? Can he be a 2 guard for the forseeable future? What are his issues with coming off the bench?

So much to figure out.

Heres a good start

Hoops Hypes Contracts

I think Goodens gone, I pray Findog gets nothing more, ditto Imme JV et al. It would be good to see Ian back as our athletic big etc.

What say you the people?

What price a team that plays Defence?

Bushka — Sun, 26 Apr 2009 10:55:03 -0000

So we are down 3-1, I am gutted. It is only now I realise just how spoilt I have been as a spurs fan this past decade. This is how it feels to be a fan of a mortal NBA franchise.

We have one more game this season should we continue to play this demented brand of basketball.

No one else is scoring consistently or with anything approaching confidence outside of the all star tandem of Tim & Tony. They pumped in 68 points between them, accounting for all but 22 of the final 90.

Can we win with just these two scoring and very limited contributions from various role players?

My thought here, and it is not a terribly original one, is that the spurs move back to what they know. For the past decade the calling card of the franchise has been outstanding. exemplary defence.

Does Pop have the minerals to change the starting five from one All NBA Defender & four average/below average defenders, to a beefed up traditional spurs five, with Bowen, Thomas & Hill filling out the numbers.

Live by the old axiom. Hold em under 80 and let God sort em out.

Can the spurs win with this? Findog is a reprehensible defender. Age has robbed him of his speed, and the league is jam packed with superb wings who have all the skills, length and zip to get where they want to regardless of how much he wants to stop them. Josh Howard is one such player. Bowen can handle Howard if allowed the time.

Hill can mark up on either Barea or Kidd, he has the length speed and desire to hound people into the dirt.

Thomas while not the perfect man to defend Dirk rebounds the ball makes smart decisions and is tough as nails.

So what price defence? Dirk can probably go get 30 regardless of what we do to him, he always has in the past. Can anyone else on the mavs score enough? Can we score enough?

I would adore the sight of a hard nosed angry spurs team. Making great rotations, staying in front of their man funnellilng penetration to the large human with the long arms in the middle. Getting stops.

So what of it?

Missed the Cavs game

Bushka — Sun, 05 Apr 2009 22:18:36 -0000

though i did check the box score this morning when i woke up.

Apparently George hill is good for 5.45 per night and the JV is rocketing along at around 11. Slightly perturbing.In fact diabolical.

I am pretty much horrified that Pops lost his marbles and is divvying up the rotations based on who has the shiniest head.

Someone put my mind at ease..please...did George get an elbow to the face or some such dastardly act that held him out of the fight?

Saw this on wiznuts thought you might appreciate it

Bushka — Mon, 09 Mar 2009 04:57:51 -0000

Found this while noodling on Wizznuts, you guys have probably seen it, but it gave me a real chortle when i read this section on Larry Hughes & how he related to the NBA Trade Dealine, seemed like the perfect description of larrys career.

Everyone was anticipating the mega-trades, player moves that would realign the balance of power but lets face it this is what the NBA trade deadline turned into: a game called "Osbournes" played by NBA GMs where they pretend Larry Hughes is a giant ham and they try and throw him over their neighbors fence when he's not looking.

Hilarious suns whine on Valley of the Suns

Bushka — Tue, 24 Feb 2009 22:18:54 -0000

Lets blame the world

Basically rehashes everything and makes an excuse for every failure....

A championship never seemed closer to the Phoenix Suns than on May 14, 2007, a day that should have been celebrated for finally slaying the San Antonio dragon in enemy territory.

With the Suns poised to forge a 2-2 deadlock in a best-of-seven series that felt like a championship bout, it seemed like Phoenix had finally broken through after injury excuses (Joe Johnson’s face in 2005, Amare Stoudemire’s knee and Raja Bell’s calf in 2006) and playoff inexperience doomed the team in prior years.

Yeah it all went wrong when you failed to actually TIE the series at 2 apiece, that was pretty close to winning a championship!...Anyone would think that the big Robert Horry decking Nash thing was in Game 7...of the finals...

Followed up immediately by playing of the injury card to cover seasons 2005 & 2006.

Then you get another 1000 words on how David Stern followed the "letter" of the law instead of the "spirit" in handing out suspensions blah blah blah.

hahhaha..the spirit of the law. Go watch a super hero movie for gods sake.

then there is this absolute zinger

There’s no saying the Suns would have won Game 5 at full strength (or even with just Diaw, which I believe would have been the case) or even a Game 7 against the playoff-tested Spurs not to mention the later two series San Antonio won to take home the crown.

But to this day, a legitimate case can be made that Cheap Shot Rob cost the Suns a championship.

So you can't guarantee that the suns would have won game 5...(they didn't win game 4 by the way....and were down 2-1 in the series at that point so it's not like they were red hot favorites..) but you can certainly make a good case that they would have won THE ENTIRE SHOOTING MATCH if not for that one play....

good lord. It gets better last years double OT loss after TImmy Nails the three to smash it up...

If the Suns rotated out to Duncan is this a different series? Who knows the way Tony Parker carved them up all series long and who knows with the way the Suns badly missed Marion with Grant Hill ailing, but we do know it would have been closer to being the seven-game showdown all of us were expecting.

EXPECTING EXSHMECTING......Who was expecting??? I wasn't i was sure that Shaq was goign to get his pants handed to him because he'd refuse to do anything other than stick his arse under the ring on D and would miss crunch time free throws, and yeah it pretty much panned out that this is exactly what happened.

But its not like the series was close, after that...you know getting eliminated 4 games to 1 sounds so much worse than ...4 games to 2...

Why are suns fans so incredibly wound up in the idea that they have been cheated out of a championship? The world gives you nothing teams that play as a single entity for each other figured it out long ago....

What about Mikki Moore?

Bushka — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 21:22:13 -0000

Just waived by sactown. He is not a starting PF in a team that needs scoring or anything approximating a low post prescence. He is more Kurt Thomas mid range jumpshot, as well as ..dunks...

He could be had for next to nothing. He only really rebounds and defends and he is an athletic guy...Would probably go for a season long contract with a conteder for peanuts...Really passionate...I know he wasn't that loved in Sacremento, but that was mostly for the fact that he was standing in front of Jason Thompson & Spencer Hawes, young bigs who were full of potential but not getting enough minutes to develop due to Brad Miller & Mikki being in the way.

He fills a niche and it costs us next to nothing? Worth a flyer imo.

I feel like the only fng Crazy guy in the room...

Bushka — Tue, 10 Feb 2009 06:41:04 -0000

I am so sick..to death..of the kobe/ lebron love fest...

The spurs go out and stick a dagger in Boston on it's home court, two of the top four teams in the league duel it out in a very close game. We prevail..great game etc...

All I see on any sports site, sportcenter, etc etc etc, is a total bum pat fest of kobe vs lebron and how amazing it was.

This right on the heals of Lebron triple double where he scored 52 jacking up the ugliest most ridiculous jump shots and travelling on a bunch of possessions...and the entire world had to be updated on the fact every 15 seconds.

How can ppl fall over themselves when the guy is shooting mulitple airballs (he shot TWO Freaking three point airballs man in his face no one else touching the ball the entire shot clock from way downtown) and ill advised jumpers just because he is allowed to?

Kobe got 61...and not a freaking rebound..are you kidding me he shot the ball 35 times or something ridiculous why? Its the knicks ffs...it was like watching a layup drill, how hard can it be to break down Danillo Gallinari and david lee off the dribble for lebron james..jesus...I

SOMEONE STOP THE BUS I WANT TO GET OFF

P.S No denying the talent of these guys but lebron is at 80%. If he threw the heat check three point shots under the bus and took his man to the hole 90% of the game he would be batshit insane.

Kobe just wants to kill ppl to win. I get it...people will start paying attention to the spurs eventually only because like every year, they will be forced to acknowledge that holy pants they are right up the top of the standings again and it's playoff time...Constant conversations amongst overpaid analyst rating the top 5 players in teh game or at SG or at PG and TD getting slotted in behind the latest flame are really started to F##K me off...I can only imagine how bad it would be if i lived in the states.