48MoH readers have seen the name Bruno tossed about here and there. Bruno is a trusted friend firmly situated in France, where he is able to make all sorts of smart observations about the Spurs, the NBA, and their various relationships in the international basketball community. For the upcoming season we’ve asked a few friends [...]
Holiday rapid fire: Alfredo R. Berrios wrote a recap for TrueHoop. You can watch a replay of yesterday’s championship game between Brazil and Puerto Rico here. Tiago Splitter received tournament MVP consideration, but that award went to Luis Scola. More on the tournament from our friends at Pounding the Rock.
Sham Sports has potheads. Sham has lookalikes. Sham has the best collection of quotes on the internet-quick, someone ask Antoine Walker why he shoots so many three pointers. And did you ever want to know what became of Hollinger wonder-crush Jackie Butler? Sham has that too. But it’s all for kicks and giggles. Shamsports.com is [...]
If you’re counting down the hours until the NBA preseason tips, Canada vs. Brazil might help the time pass. Canada is outmatched in this one, and I expect Anderson Varejao and Tiago Splitter to dominate. If you’re interested, the game is on 360.
FIBA’s late summer tournaments are great fun. That fun continues today as the undefeated Brazilian team takes on Panama. For updates on Brazil’s play, The Painted Area recapped their games against Argentina and Dominican Republic. Pounding the Rock has a helpful write-up on Tiago Splitter’s first three games here. And I offered a few thoughts [...]
If you’re jonesing for Spurs basketball, it’s not such a bad time of year. Yesterday’s slate featured Tiago Splitter, Tony Parker, Ian Mahinmi and Nando De Colo.
It’s a difficult question. One that refuses to die. Eventually a team owner will play Bartleby to David Stern’s perplexed narration, and maybe that time has come. The NBA technically forbids its teams from interfering with their players participation in summer events. If a player wants to play for his country, it’s his prerogative. But [...]
Rikiddo, Pounding the Rock sage and friend to this site, has done a nice job breaking down the Marcus Haislip signing. Between him and Graydon, there is little else to say until we actually see Haislip on the court. But still, I’ve scrounged together a few scraps from under the table. Think of this as [...]
48MoH reader mattmo28 exchanged tweets with Ric Bucher last night: mattmo28@RicBucher Whats the deal with the Spurs not pushing for Sheed? Who are we after? Who fits best?about 4 hours ago from web in reply to RicBucher @mattmo28 Have heard McDyess and Frye. There’s a chance Tiago Splitter could be coming over, which would solve [...]
The Draft is almost upon us. There have been several reports that the Spurs are looking to trade into the first round, with one rumor having them interested in Washington’s 5th pick. But, honestly, we heard similar things last year. The cold reality of limited assets and the tough business of locating agreeable trade partners [...]
Tony Parker is in France on business, looking over ASVEL. It’s a short read, and worth your time. Here’s Google’s rough translation. And, while you’re there, you’ll notice a little blurb about Austin Nichols winning the Pro A scoring title. Of note: Parker says with confidence that Splitter will not join the Spurs this summer [...]
The Spurs have 3 second round selections in the 2009 draft, number 37, 51 and 53. Most of us would agree that their position of greatest need is small forward. So in the initial weeks of our draft discussions, I’m going to focus more heavily on that position. But honestly, I’m pretty excited about this [...]
I plan a long series of posts considering the Spurs roster, with consideration toward individual players and larger roster issues. At points, these posts might overlap with thoughts on the upcoming draft (forthcoming shortly). But they will be tagged differently. I wasn’t sure where to start with my offseason analysis, but Pop’s DNP of Drew [...]
The name on the front of Tiago Splitter’s jersey is TAU Ceramica. That’s also the name-as you might have guessed-of a prominent Spanish ceramics company. TAU is very proud of its floor tile. This is all commonplace stuff—European teams are like race cars. They have sponsors. And those sponsors are not immune to the hardships [...]
With the D-League playoffs set to tip this evening, what better time to catch up with D-League President and altogether good guy Dan Reed. Dan is making the interview rounds, and joins us to discuss globalization, how D-League talent compares to the NCAA, his league’s role in the stats revolution and, of course, the Spurs [...]
