Spurs sign Joffrey Lauvergne

[Raven]

wow, that's a steal.. if he pans out or not, that's just too good of a move to say anything bad..

[ceperez]

http://tweetiz.com/1JOLOLO/tweet/862770362953682944

Damn... kick boxing.

[Hoops Czar]

If the Spurs rotation ends up being:

Mills/Murray-Green-Leonard-Gay-Aldridge
Mills/Murray-Ginobili-Simmons-Anderson/Bertans-Gasol

their isn't much rim protection but the perimeter defense should be better and more able to switch which is probably as more important that traditional bigs who protect the rim.

Rim protection is important when you have guards that can't guard. (Mills, Parker)

[Emperor]

http://tweetiz.com/1JOLOLO/tweet/862770362953682944

He will using those skills on Zaza hopefully.

[Maddog]

Damn... kick boxing.

Yeah
Draymond is going to have compe ion...

[Seventyniner]

No point in ting all over this guy, any 25-year-old you're signing for this cheap is going to be flawed in some ways. His skills on offense seem to fit well with Gay, Mills, Manu, etc.

[jermaine]

I seriously would love to know who were some of you expecting to sign?? You'll talked bad about Dedmon, saying he can't catch an don't know where to stand... David Lee didn't have a shot, wasn't a run protector, an is too short.... What the do you guys want??

[hater]

how many teams has this scrub been in already???

I predict he will be a slightly better D. Blair/Matt Boner paint hybrid and a fan favorite

But most likely he is on his last team on the way back to Europe

[SAGirl]

I like this signing a lot.

Lauvergne is a very good screener (SA fellows will notice it very quickly), so I suppose Pop and cia got tired of Aldridge softness in that aspect. While I'm a bit critical about this Spurs offseason, I think this is a low-key move that will pay off big time in the future for the Spurs.

JL is not a star, but i think he will be a very solid role player and contributor .

If he's that, in such a small contract, I cannot be complaining. If he's screening is noticeably better than the other bigs that would be an improvement in the offense. I will miss Lee. Much as he was an undersized center he was a very nice regular season player and outstanding rebounder. This probably means he won't be back.

[LaMarcus Bryant]

Jesus
We are ing finished.

[NASpurs]

how many teams has this scrub been in already???

I predict he will be a slightly better D. Blair/Matt Boner paint hybrid and a fan favorite

But most likely he is on his last team on the way back to Europe

heading to his fourth team and he's only been in the league since 2014

[Down Under]

He's going to be stricly a diveman. He was poorly utilized by most teams forcing him to be a spread player because he's white.

He's real assest is in his ability to roll. This wi Help Kawhi, Murray a lot

You predicted it

[TimDunkem]

Energetic, shoots the three, good roll man, likes to pass, likes to attack the rim, isn't afraid to bang down low. He'll be a fine Lee replacement. Not better than Lee but the Spurs don't have many options after Lee went down and Pop burned his bridges with Dedmon.

[Snaq O'Meal]

Damn... kick boxing.

If he takes out Zaza or lands a kick on Donkey's balls, he's worth every cent of his contract.

[Poolboy5623]

This must be the "calm before the storm" signing everyone was talking about?

[coachmac87]

I seriously would love to know who were some of you expecting to sign?? You'll talked bad about Dedmon, saying he can't catch an don't know where to stand... David Lee didn't have a shot, wasn't a run protector, an is too short.... What the do you guys want??

It's SpursTalk....

The Spurs could sign/trade for LeBron and there would still be s on here ing about the move

[Pavlov]

Get Udoh next and reserve parade barges.

[look_at_g_shred]

Solid if he's replacing Lee. Not so solid if he's replacing Dedmon.

Wow almost an hour gone by and nobody else caught this of a take.

[TimDunkem]

It's SpursTalk....

The Spurs could sign/trade for LeBron and there would still be s on here ing about the move

Sadly true.

[SPURt]

From a poster on realgm:

What? Lauvergne was the softest player on the team. At the time the Bulls traded for him, "Lauvergne was on pace to be the only qualifying center since Mehmet Okur in 2007-08 to post a rebound rate worse than 15 percent and a block rate worse than 1 percent"

Out of 66 centers in the NBA, Lauvergne was ranked 65th in defensive plus/minus. He's terrible.

[dabom]

No one takes realgm seriously.

[SPURt]

No one takes realgm seriously.

True

[TrainOfThought5]

Is this the worst offseason in the last decade?

[TD 21]

At the notion of him stretching the floor. The fact that one shoots 3's doesn't automatically mean they do that. You have to shoot them well enough or at least have a reputation for doing so to garner that respect. Nobody is worried about a guy who's 49/167 for 29.3% in his career.

I seriously would love to know who were some of you expecting to sign?? You'll talked bad about Dedmon, saying he can't catch an don't know where to stand... David Lee didn't have a shot, wasn't a run protector, an is too short.... What the do you guys want??

A legit C, not a guy who's wingspan is equal to that of the projected temporary starting PG, especially with an increase in small ball (whether they intend to start that way or not, the Gay signing clinched that).

[Joseph Kony]

From a poster on realgm:

What? Lauvergne was the softest player on the team. At the time the Bulls traded for him, "Lauvergne was on pace to be the only qualifying center since Mehmet Okur in 2007-08 to post a rebound rate worse than 15 percent and a block rate worse than 1 percent"

Out of 66 centers in the NBA, Lauvergne was ranked 65th in defensive plus/minus. He's terrible.

To be fair, the bulls and okc were trash for the most part and that will influence his plus/minus numbers. But the rebounding is a concern, especially considering Chicago couldn't shoot for , he should have had plenty of opportunities to rebound the ball