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Originally Posted by tskillz187
I'm a huge Spurs fan and a huge Haralabos fan, you're breaking my heart with the Mavs in 7 prediction.
Where do you put Ginobili in top players in the game? For comparison sake, do you think the Hawks would be better with him or Joe Johnson?
What are your feelings on George Hill compared to Parker? I don't like ball pounding/score first PGs like Parker, but I'm not sure that's bad it just isn't stylistically pleasing to me or the right way to play basketball, imo.
As a Spurs fan I'd like to see Parker and RJ (nice thinking) packaged for some kind of help in the 3-4-5 or getting Splitter, if you were GM of the Spurs what would be your offseason goals and plans for the future?
Sorry for all the fanboy questions, agree with PBJaxx about needing you on a podcast again, and I opened an account on 2p2 just for this well, haha.
Questions like the Ginobili vs Joe Johnson question are tough to answer unless you are really specific. Do you mean right now for this current season? Do you mean for the future? JJ is younger so obviously more valuable long term. But right now there are very few 2s in the league who are playing better than Manu, JJ isn't one of them.
The George Hill vs Tony Parker question is similar, Hill is young and playing quite well. He isn't nearly as good as Parker was in his prime on offense but a better defender. I'd say they are pretty close to a wash right now, it also depends on who they are playing. If they are playing a team with a PG like Westbrook I'd prefer Hill, against a guy like Kidd who doesn't do much scoring you can probably get by playing Parker and having a slight offensive edge.
Hill also gives you the ability to have him guard the 2 which is something TP can't do - I dunno. If I had to choose for right now and going forward I'd take Hill.
If I was the spurs I'd probably start unloading some of my assets and attempting to rebuild some. Duncan, Ginobili and TP still have a lot of value and might be pawns in this years Free Agent class in a sign and trade. I think its unlikely this team will ever sniff a title again so I'd probably try and get some pieces for the future. They have done a great job extending this core groups run for a number of years now but realistically its hard to argue that they'll ever get back to the Finals without making some major changes.