I posted this about a week ago

Really?

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SVD, there was a post about this last week but may have been under a different name. And I may have deleted it because there was no supporting info to suggest it wasn't just a troll. The poster has been proven correct, unfortunately!

Hmmm... Oh well.. may as well use this for team for development in light of this.

This is a massive loss. Absolutely huge. It now stuffs up the guard rotation quite a bit. Delly is going to have to play big minutes at PG because Exum isn't a PG IMO and the other PG stocks aren’t up to stock. All of a sudden, the PG depth is shot to pieces and you are looking at Markovic, Gibson or Martin as your Backup.

Also means he will be out until Feb - missing a large portion of the NBA season. What will this mean for the Spurs – will they look at getting someone like Neal back. Or make a play for a Reddick.

Ah ok Isaac

I have 3 and half words then "IT'S KYRIE TIME"

Focus purely on development for 2016 IMO

MACDUB, I imagine he will definitely sign on with the Spurs now (there was a small amount of doubt before.

As for what it means for the Spurs; on top of Joseph and Ginobli being able to cover the point they also could have Diaw and their 1st round draft pick from this years draft Kyle Anderson aka Diaw jnr.

Anderson regards his natural position to be point guard and also shot the ball at 48% last season for UCLA.

Bad news for Patty.

Espn are reporting the following:
"The Aussie is a free agent but sources told Stein he's expected to re-sign with the Spurs as the sides have already begun talks on a new deal."

I hope he stays with the spurs, as they gave him a break in the NBA after Portland cut him loose.

Baynes Jawai
Bairstow Andersen (Motum or Wortho)
Ingles Simmons
Goulding (Newley or Broekhoff)
Delly Exum (Martin or Gibson)

shiT

Well... that sucks.

Plenty of more shots for everyone else on the team. Be interesting to see who makes the most of them.

Such a bummer for Patty, puts in so much hard work, changes his diet, works out in the off season, plays phenomenal for the Spurs win a Championship then when he's looking at signing his biggest player contract he has an injury requiring surgery and a possible 7 month recovery time.

Which other NBA players have had rotator cuff surgery and what has there recovery been like? have they come back playing as well as before?

Anthony Bennett had this surgery in the past. Hopefully Patty doesn't turn out that bad...

This is a poem I wrote in reaction to this terrible news :

MY PATTY, MY PATTY

My heart, it break.
My hope, it go.
My faith, it shatter.
My nostril, it congest
My anger, it build
My pride, it unshaken

Gordon Liddy, July 2014

Baynes/Jawai
Anderson/Bairstow/Motum
Ingles/Newley/Simmons
Exum/Goulding
Dellavadova/Martin

Maybe we can still be competitive.. but top 8 would be tough without the x factor

I feel Goulding is going to be huge

Damn it! Worst timing for Patty, both in terms of his next contract and the Boomers chances at the Worlds.

Losing his shooting is really going to hurt the Boomers. We literally have no proven perimeter threat to replace him.

While I'm looking forward to seeing what Exum can do at the Worlds, I don't think team balance would be served by him starting alongside Delly. If Goulding shows good form leading into the Worlds, I would be very tempted to start him at SG and give him the green light.

Dellavedova/Martin
Newley/Goulding/Exum
Ingles/Simmons or Broekhoff
Bairstow/Andersen/Motum or Petrie
Baynes/Jawai or Nevill

I am just wondering whether or not we will still have a team that can surprise the best without Patty.. Hmm.. We need some young guns to step up, drmics/exums/simmons/broekhoffs etc. top 8 should be the aim now.

I have had shoulder recon on both shoulders and 7 months sounds very reasonable. I Missed a year of playing for each of mine, obviously without the support patty will have, but it takes a long time to get proper range of motion back and months of strengthening before you feel comfortable putting your arm in a compromising position.

Good luck patty!

Damn that sounds tuff Kr

I'm in agreement with you Beantown re: Goulding, hopefully he plays well at the Summer League and can continue that form into the Worlds, could be an x factor

After all the great news we have enjoyed over the past month, we now take a big hit with the loss of Mills for the WC campaign.

The anon above is spot on we would survive without Bogut as we're used to his absence but no Mills hurts us big time. If we can get top 8 that's a satisfactory result.

Good thing about Goulding, (while we are searching desperately for positives right now) is he would basically be an unknown quantity internationally and no one is going to suspect this NBL kid.. He won't be any real replacement for Mills but he COULD fill a slightly similar role. I would also put guys like Drmic on the team, we need guys who can create their own shots now. Goulding for starting SG I say.

Hopefully Mills watches what he eats whilst injured.

Don't want to get out of shape and get labelled a little fat ass by Pop again.