If Bruce Bowen gets bought out...

[xmuscularghandix]

Bruce Bowen

Career:

6pts, 2.8reb, 1.2ast, 102Drtg, .08Stl
.393 3PFG%

Bruce Bowen has the reputation of being a dirty player, but he's also considered one of the best Man Defenders in the league. Bruce has earned 5 First Team All-Defense, and 3 Second Team All-Defense awards. Bowen is also a 3 Time NBA Champion with 135 Career Playoff games

[Who]

Not as the first wing off the bench.

Bowen would be a good-to-very good option as the second wing off the bench.

[Evantime34]

Perfect to mentor Bill Walker and Giddens. More importantly could play a solid 10 minutes of hell raising defense on the other team's best wing.

[xmuscularghandix]

Not as the first wing off the bench.

Bowen would be a good-to-very good option as the second wing off the bench.

think of this

Rondo, Bowen, Pierce, KG, Perk

That rivals any defensive lineup in the league.

[Prof. Clutch]

If a Bruce Bowen falls in the woods...

[xmuscularghandix]

If a Bruce Bowen falls in the woods...

he probably landed on Wally Szerbiak?

[wdleehi]

Yes, along with Hill or Parker.

[PosImpos]

He's so old I don't think he's really worth it anymore.

But maybe for the minimum as the second wing as some others mentioned.

[Prof. Clutch]

If a Bruce Bowen falls in the woods...

he probably landed on Wally Szerbiak?

Correct.

[snively]

Not as the first wing off the bench.

Bowen would be a good-to-very good option as the second wing off the bench.

I don't think we have the resources to grab a good first wing off the bench type if Hill turns us down.  I'd like Bowen.  I'd sign him and stash him for the playoffs.  He's a terrible fit with Tony Allen and House off the bench, but he'd be fine in 5-10 minute spurts spotting Ray or Paul with the rest of the starters in the playoffs.

I think we can get away with TA and Walker/Giddens off the bench for the majority of the year.  TA isn't half-bad as a regular season player anyways.

Speaking of Wally Z, he wouldn't make a half-bad pick-up either.

[xmuscularghandix]

Not as the first wing off the bench.

Bowen would be a good-to-very good option as the second wing off the bench.

I don't think we have the resources to grab a good first wing off the bench type if Hill turns us down.  I'd like Bowen.  I'd sign him and stash him for the playoffs.  He's a terrible fit with Tony Allen and House off the bench, but he'd be fine in 5-10 minute spurts spotting Ray or Paul with the rest of the starters in the playoffs.

I think we can get away with TA and Walker/Giddens off the bench for the majority of the year.  TA isn't half-bad as a regular season player anyways.

Speaking of Wally Z, he wouldn't make a half-bad pick-up either.

He'd go nicely with our 3PT shooting lineup. not so much with our defensive one though... although he did show me something with Cleveland last year....

[ManUp]

I don't know...I guess if Ray Is ok with it. Bowen is a good shooter and a solid defender(no longer elite), but his dirty play is a real turn off. He's not a player I would want to root for.

[2short]

He would (would) have been a good fit, he's just too old now.

[the_Bird]

If he gets bought out, wouldn't he go right back to San Antonio?

And if San Antonio doesn't want to re-sign him, wouldn't that tell us everything that we needed to know?

There's old, and then there's OLD.  Grant Hill is old, but he was still a [dang] good balled last year.  Bowen can't defend nearly as well as he used to any more, and he was a 2.7ppg scorer. 

[fairweatherfan06]

Short note to all you Quinton Ross fans anybody notice today he signed with his hometown team (The Mavs) they are gonna be tough along with the Spurs in that Texas Triangle (poor Rockets)