So...now what?

[Leetonidas]

It was a long shot that we'd make the playoffs but at least we had a shot to play for the play in. Now that Victor is out for the season, where does the team go from here?

Do we shut down Fox?
Do we tank the rest of the way?
Does CP3 get bought out?
Are we running with Sochan and Bassey at C?

Spurs have basically no C now on the roster and no chance to compete without Vic. Where do we go from here?

[Ice009]

I just bought up the center issue in another thread. Who are the Spurs going to start in Victor's place. They never bothered to get a proper back up center all season. Freaking irresponsible of them.

[Robz4000]

https://c.tenor.com/puH-XRYZx0MAAAAC/tenor.gif

[baseline bum]

Time to capture the Flagg, Ace the tank, and Edge for Comb

[TimDunkem]

Tank. Duh.

[LeBowen]

I'd let for play a game or two in SA if he wants to, then shut him down.

It's not about do we tank, we don't have an NBA level big, we're going to get murdered in most games, but then again we can't catch up with those really horrible teams. Jazz, Pelicans, Wizards, Hornets are out of reach. Nets have just 3 less wins, but they're blatantly tanking, maybe Raptors with Ingram can overtake us. Trading the best tank commander in the game to a direct competitor will cost us, tbh.

They'll probably ask CP3 about his wishes and let him go if he wants to.

[Robz4000]

Now that Wemby's career is in doubt, they need to pray they land a top four pick tbh.

[K...]

i don't know but i think it involves playing that rookie stephy castle less than before

[BatManu20]

• Tank
• Shut Fox down for the season and let him get his surgery
• Waive CP3
• Play Branham and Wesley heavy minutes to see if there's anything there (unlikely + helps the tank regardless)
• Give Castle 20+ shots a game to further develop and help ensure his ROY
• Pray to the basketball Gods that Wemby makes a full recovery and that this isn't a long-term or recurring issue

[Leetonidas]

It's already a giant kick in the nads that Wemby is out, I don't want to be subjected to watching Branham play big minutes:lol

[benefactor]

https://c.tenor.com/puH-XRYZx0MAAAAC/tenor.gif

[spurraider21]

It's already a giant kick in the nads that Wemby is out, I don't want to be subjected to watching Branham play big minutes:lol
his contract for next season is guaranteed. him getting sheer volume to go ahead and average 12ppg might be what is needed to convince somebody to trade for him :lol

[Pauleta14]

I just bought up the center issue in another thread. Who are the Spurs going to start in Victor's place. They never bothered to get a proper back up center all season. Freaking irresponsible of them.

The least we can do is lose all the remaining games to get Flagg. I'm fine with no 5

[DAF86]

#1: shut down Fox and have him get surgery.
#2: waive CP3 (and maybe Barnes too. With the idea of picking them back up in the offseason).
#3: make Castle the #1 option.

For the rest of the season:

Starters:

PG: Castle
SG: Vassell
SF: Champagnie
PF: Sochan
C: Bassey

Bench:

PG: Wesley
SG: Branham
SF: Ingram
PF: Mamu
C: Minx

Try and get at least on Ace Bailey territory.

[baseline bum]

Definitely time to ask CP3 if he wants to be waived so he can sign with a contender. With how awesome he has been this season I think pretty much any contender would fucking love to get him.

[Raven]

tank absolutely. let cp3 go and play a deep rotation, go back to developing players.

[Mal]

We tank

[stnick2261]

Depends what PATFO's goals are. If it's to field a championship-caliber team, they need to have Fox's surgery and have them both out at the same time. If PATFO just want to sell tickets, then I can see them playing Fox the rest of the season so the fans keep showing up, and then having his surgery in the off-season (and possibly miss the beginning of next season when Wemby is back).

They could also just play Fox if they were dishonest about Wemby's future.

[Leetonidas]

#1: shut down Fox and have him get surgery.
#2: waive CP3 (and maybe Barnes too. With the idea of picking them back up in the offseason).
#3: make Castle the #1 option.

For the rest of the season:

Starters:

PG: Castle
SG: Vassell
SF: Champagnie
PF: Sochan
C: Bassey

Bench:

PG: Wesley
SG: Branham
SF: Ingram
PF: Mamu
C: Minx

Try and get at least on Ace Bailey territory.

Isn't Minix also out for the season?

[Arcadian]

Give Castle free reign to do whatever the fuck he wants. Let him average 25 ppg.

[Leetonidas]

his contract for next season is guaranteed. him getting sheer volume to go ahead and average 12ppg might be what is needed to convince somebody to trade for him :lol

Fair point :lol

[spurraider21]

#1: shut down Fox and have him get surgery.
#2: waive CP3 (and maybe Barnes too. With the idea of picking them back up in the offseason).
#3: make Castle the #1 option.

For the rest of the season:

Starters:

PG: Castle
SG: Vassell
SF: Champagnie
PF: Sochan
C: Bassey

Bench:

PG: Wesley
SG: Branham
SF: Ingram
PF: Mamu
C: Minx

Try and get at least on Ace Bailey territory.
barnes is under contract for next season, there's no world where he gets waived :lol

[exstatic]

https://c.tenor.com/puH-XRYZx0MAAAAC/tenor.gif

Shut down Fox to get his surgery. Tankatankatank.

[mo7888]

It was a long shot that we'd make the playoffs but at least we had a shot to play for the play in. Now that Victor is out for the season, where does the team go from here?

Do we shut down Fox?
Do we tank the rest of the way?
Does CP3 get bought out?
Are we running with Sochan and Bassey at C?

Spurs have basically no C now on the roster and no chance to compete without Vic. Where do we go from here?

Shut down Fox
Buyout Cp3
Play Keldon, Blake and Branham lots of minutes

[ffadicted]

* We weren't gonna make the play-ins anyway. Let's tank for better draft positioning.
* Might as well get Fox fixed up at this point too. Even more tanking goodness for draft positioning.
* Unleash the Castle. Get him the ROTY and let him just do whatever he wants to develop.
* Give Vassell and Keldon more minutes, up their trade value as proven tank commanders for the offseason moves.
* Spurs hopefully wake up to the fact a great backup big is super important this offseason to not run wemby into the ground, and make the right moves
* No Euro ball for Wemby this summer. He'll be cleared for a full offseason of prep and conditioning and training
* Missing out on DPOY and All NBA will light a fire in Wemby's soul, he'll come back with a vengeance next season. 30/12/5 with 6 stocks

[DAF86]

Isn't Minix also out for the season?


barnes is under contract for next season, there's no world where he gets waived :lol

I don't follow all the details of all our players, tbh. :lol

Ok, just keep Barnes, maybe rest him more than usual.

[hater]

No need to tank

As we will lose most of our games anyway even if we try

Why would we shud down fox? We pay his ass. He plays

Who cares about cp3?

Who cares who plays c?

[scott]

Kind of an outside shot, but I think there is a semi-realistic shot to get down to the 5th lottery seed, but getting to 7/8 range is definitely within reach.

I think they will likely at least get Fox one home game... would be an extra kick in the nuts for them to not even get to see our star acquisition.

After that, it's just full tank mode.

Unfortunately, this robs us of the opportunity to see Devin in a role that better suits him going forward (especially if/when Fox gets shut down). He'll be back into #1/#2 scorer mode. Maybe this is an opportunity for him and Keldon to increase their trade value at least.

Fuck this is depressing.

[scott]

* We weren't gonna make the play-ins anyway. Let's tank for better draft positioning.
* Might as well get Fox fixed up at this point too. Even more tanking goodness for draft positioning.
* Unleash the Castle. Get him the ROTY and let him just do whatever he wants to develop.
* Give Vassell and Keldon more minutes, up their trade value as proven tank commanders for the offseason moves.
* Spurs hopefully wake up to the fact a great backup big is super important this offseason to not run wemby into the ground, and make the right moves
* No Euro ball for Wemby this summer. He'll be cleared for a full offseason of prep and conditioning and training
* Missing out on DPOY and All NBA will light a fire in Wemby's soul, he'll come back with a vengeance next season. 30/12/5 with 6 stocks

Thank you for bringing at least some semblance of hope to this dire morning :lol

[Dex]

Googling the nearest bridge tbh

[DAF86]

#1: shut down Fox and have him get surgery.
#2: waive CP3 (and maybe Barnes too. With the idea of picking them back up in the offseason).
#3: make Castle the #1 option.

For the rest of the season:

Starters:

PG: Castle
SG: Vassell
SF: Champagnie
PF: Sochan
C: Bassey

Bench:

PG: Wesley
SG: Branham
SF: Ingram
PF: Mamu
C: Minx

Try and get at least on Ace Bailey territory.

I totally forgot Keldon :lmao

[Chillen]

If CP3 wants to get waived would he go back to Suns? they are struggling right now it would seem like the ideal fit. He's better than Tyus Jones. I agree since we will suck the rest of the season without Victor have Fox get surgery.

[Spurminator]

I'd go ahead and get D. Fox his surgery, I don't see any upside to playing him the rest of this season. Might as well maximize recovery time before the start of the next one.

As for the rest of the guys, you still try to win, you still try to have opportunities to play crunchtime basketball... And the result is probably going to be the same as actively tanking because this simply wouldn't be an NBA level team without Fox+Wemby.

[ginobilized]

This could all bode well for the Spurs in the big picture, though, it sucks right now.
Hopefully, Wemby comes back fully rested and 100+% after not playing euro league ball.

Get Fox fixed up soon and draft another strong player or TWO!

I wonder if Paul would want to stick around for another season? They probably waive him, but, I could see it going either way.
I bet he'd go to one of the LA franchises to be close to his family if waived. Ending his career with the Clippers would be poetic.

[Uriel]

Yeah, shutting down Fox and buying CP3 out would be ideal. But knowing the front office, we'll have to ask CP3 first if he's cool with that, and if not, we'll most likely stay the course.

[ffadicted]

Thank you for bringing at least some semblance of hope to this dire morning :lol

Anything to stop my tears from flowing :depressed
Toxic positivity

[Spurminator]

I don't really see the upside of buying out CP3 unless he specifically asks for it. If he's happy here, let his BBIQ continue to rub off on the rest of the guys. He's the best coach we have.

[YoungbuckMurray]

Do they just say F it and go small but athletic and try to out run teams?

paul-Fox-Dev-castle-Sochan/Barnes as starting 5. We are already horrible at rebounding anyways

[scott]

Will this generate a hardship exemption and another roster spot?

Mo Bamba might not have made a lot of sense before, but he might now. Give a former top draft pick a last chance to salvage his career kind of move. At least there is upside to that. There is no long-term upside to Bigmac Bimbo. Might as well just be Gorgi Dieng out there.

[scott]

Do they just say F it and go small but athletic and try to out run teams?

paul-Fox-Dev-castle-Sochan/Barnes as starting 5. We are already horrible at rebounding anyways

Thinking optimistically, that lineup could set an NBA record... the Nets only had 17 rebounds against the Thunder in 2014. We could easily beat that if we sit Bassey and try-hard Keldon.

[spurraider21]

Will this generate a hardship exemption and another roster spot?

Mo Bamba might not have made a lot of sense before, but he might now. Give a former top draft pick a last chance to salvage his career kind of move. At least there is upside to that. There is no long-term upside to Bigmac Bimbo. Might as well just be Gorgi Dieng out there.
iirc hardship exemption gives you some cap relief to go sign a replacement but doenst actually grant a roster spot

[scott]

iirc hardship exemption gives you some cap relief to go sign a replacement but doenst actually grant a roster spot

Oh bummer, I thought it was the opposite. I saw Portis is suspended for 25 games and after 5 games it will open a roster spot for MIL. Can we also suspend Wemby for the rest of the season? :lol

[spurraider21]

Oh bummer, I thought it was the opposite. I saw Portis is suspended for 25 games and after 5 games it will open a roster spot for MIL. Can we also suspend Wemby for the rest of the season? :lol
i could be wrong. anyway not like opening up a roster spot would be that challenging

[baseline bum]

I don't really see the upside of buying out CP3 unless he specifically asks for it. If he's happy here, let his BBIQ continue to rub off on the rest of the guys. He's the best coach we have.

He specifically set up his contract so he could be waived and sign with a contender if shit went bad. And now it has while CP3 has shown he can still play at a high level. If he still wants to be here and try to make a run next year when Victor is back then yeah I'm keeping him but he didn't sign here to be a coach so I don't see him staying for the rest of the season if he isn't coming back again next year.

[Ice009]

Will this generate a hardship exemption and another roster spot?

Mo Bamba might not have made a lot of sense before, but he might now. Give a former top draft pick a last chance to salvage his career kind of move. At least there is upside to that. There is no long-term upside to Bigmac Bimbo. Might as well just be Gorgi Dieng out there.

I don't understand the Biyombo signing at all. Should have tried to get someone with more upside. I wonder if there is any chance Clint Capela gets bought out? I'd assume none as Atlanta is trying to make the playoffs.

I saw you mentioned Bobby Portis is suspended? What happened there? And why does that allow an extra roster spot and doesn't for an injured player?

[NASpurs]

We're going to go back to giving 120 a night on defense. Incoming 15 game losing streak.

[Gibbz]

I just bought up the center issue in another thread. Who are the Spurs going to start in Victor's place.

Time for some Bismacktion, tbh

[scott]

I don't understand the Biyombo signing at all. Should have tried to get someone with more upside. I wonder if there is any chance Clint Capela gets bought out? I'd assume none as Atlanta is trying to make the playoffs.

I saw you mentioned Bobby Portis is suspended? What happened there? And why does that allow an extra roster spot and doesn't for an injured player?

Biyombo makes sense as just the emergency 3rd big I suppose, but now with Wemby out it makes no sense at all like you said. I don't think Capela does either. Find some young guy with upside (like when we found Bassey) or a reclamation project like Bamba (I don't even really like Bamba, but at least there is some potential upside there)

Portis got suspended this morning for testing positive for Tramadol, which is an opioid. He claims he got it mixed up with an approved medication called Toradol. They are both pain killers. (IDK how you get medications mixed up, both are Rx drugs, so it's not like he accident grabbed the wrong one at the pharmacy). Tramadol is an opioid but I've read that it's a pretty mild one, it's not like something you'd take recreationally to get high like Fentanyl.

I don't know the rules an extra roster spots, but I did read that after 5 games MIL will get an extra one. It's weird the NBA wouldn't give you one for an injured player.

[Spurminator]

He specifically set up his contract so he could be waived and sign with a contender if shit went bad. And now it has while CP3 has shown he can still play at a high level. If he still wants to be here and try to make a run next year when Victor is back then yeah I'm keeping him but he didn't sign here to be a coach so I don't see him staying for the rest of the season if he isn't coming back again next year.

I get that and agree, I'm just responding to the idea that we should buy him out just because.

It doesn't help the Spurs at the moment to lose him, so listing it as "something we should do now" doesn't really make sense to me. The choice is all his.

[vy65]

Kind of an outside shot, but I think there is a semi-realistic shot to get down to the 5th lottery seed, but getting to 7/8 range is definitely within reach.

I think they will likely at least get Fox one home game... would be an extra kick in the nuts for them to not even get to see our star acquisition.

After that, it's just full tank mode.

Unfortunately, this robs us of the opportunity to see Devin in a role that better suits him going forward (especially if/when Fox gets shut down). He'll be back into #1/#2 scorer mode. Maybe this is an opportunity for him and Keldon to increase their trade value at least.

Fuck this is depressing.

Habibi, look. Were we honestly thinking that we'd make the play-in at 23-29, 3.5 games out of the 10th seed, and with 30 games left on the season? I dunno. You could say something about the experience in playing for something those last 30, but them's the breaks. With the way they had been playing since the start of the new year, and with having to integrate Fox, and with our coaching staff not understanding which starting line up to use, I'd put the odds of the play-in at sub 50%. All of which is to say, it's not like we are contenders who just entered into lost-season territory.

Wemby is 21. Castle is 20. Assume your 30% chance of a top-5 hits. Low probability scenario where we get Cooper, then I think we're more than ok with this outcome (assuming Wemby makes a full recovery). Low-to-mid probability scenario where we get an Edgecomb or a Bailey (again, assuming Wemby makes a full recovery), I think we are again, more than ok with the outcome. It would suck for this to happen - and - for us to slip in draft position, but let's not think about that for now.

There's a high probability that we shut D-Fox down soon. There's a high probability we play Castle heavy minutes. That will both bode will for next year - especially the Castle piece.

My final hope is that the FO has seen enough from the group to make meaningful changes in the summer. Cut branham and wesley. Trade Keldon and/or Main Character and/or Sochan. We've seen enough this year to be in a position to make a meaningful push for the playoffs (or more) next year. Onviously, it really sucks losing Wemby for the year. No sugar coating that. But, I don't think we had a great upside this year. The chance of one last tank yielding a high value asset could very well set us up to be even better than OKC. If memory serves, Shai had an injury that shut him down - and OKC ended up with Chet as a result. This could be similar.

[scott]

I get that and agree, I'm just responding to the idea that we should buy him out just because.

It doesn't help the Spurs at the moment to lose him, so listing it as "something we should do now" doesn't really make sense to me. The choice is all his.

Agreed. CP3 isn't going to impact winning without Wemby, especially if Fox also goes out, so it's not like we need to cut him to preserve the tank. He made add some value to our young guys (especially Castle) if he sticks around.

[Joseph Kony]

yeah this season is fucked. shut Fox down, let CP3 move on, and just tank the rest of the year and hope for a top 3 pick.

if SA doesnt shut Fox down at the very least i hope he gives us a 50 point game or something to get excited about :lol

[RC_Drunkford]

Tank. Play Castle heavy minutes. Let Branham and Wesley play a little to see if you get rid of both next season. Let Bassey start, he still has some development to do. Tell Fox to get surgery on his finger. Let CP3 and Barnes coach the young guys, but reduce their minutes. Sign a back up C to run line ups that make sense.

[scott]

Habibi, look. Were we honestly thinking that we'd make the play-in at 23-29, 3.5 games out of the 10th seed, and with 30 games left on the season? I dunno. You could say something about the experience in playing for something those last 30, but them's the breaks. With the way they had been playing since the start of the new year, and with having to integrate Fox, and with our coaching staff not understanding which starting line up to use, I'd put the odds of the play-in at sub 50%. All of which is to say, it's not like we are contenders who just entered into lost-season territory.

Wemby is 21. Castle is 20. Assume your 30% chance of a top-5 hits. Low probability scenario where we get Cooper, then I think we're more than ok with this outcome (assuming Wemby makes a full recovery). Low-to-mid probability scenario where we get an Edgecomb or a Bailey (again, assuming Wemby makes a full recovery), I think we are again, more than ok with the outcome. It would suck for this to happen - and - for us to slip in draft position, but let's not think about that for now.

There's a high probability that we shut D-Fox down soon. There's a high probability we play Castle heavy minutes. That will both bode will for next year - especially the Castle piece.

My final hope is that the FO has seen enough from the group to make meaningful changes in the summer. Cut branham and wesley. Trade Keldon and/or Main Character and/or Sochan. We've seen enough this year to be in a position to make a meaningful push for the playoffs (or more) next year. Onviously, it really sucks losing Wemby for the year. No sugar coating that. But, I don't think we had a great upside this year. The chance of one last tank yielding a high value asset could very well set us up to be even better than OKC. If memory serves, Shai had an injury that shut him down - and OKC ended up with Chet as a result. This could be similar.

Baba, assuming that Wemby full recovers, here are the things that I'm bummer we'll miss out on or may result because of this:


Missed opportunity for Wemby/Fox/Castle to develop chemistry. This isn't the end of the world, but it would have been great to have this.
Devin will spend the rest of the reason in a role we don't need him in, which he'll either perform great in (which will lead the FO and the fans to believe we should keep him) or he'll do poorly (which lead the FO and the fans to have a built in excuse to why we should keep him... we'll go into Year 6 of Devin and us "trying to figure out how he fits" like he's a rookie or some shit)
More tank commander time for Keldon, a role in which he excels. Same thing as Devin, may lead us to get our hopes up yet again that Keldon is someone worth having on the team. (Hopefully in both this scenario and the Devin scenario the FO has already realized these guys gots to go)
Another built in excuse for the FO and the coaching staff. I think the FO actually already bought themselves a little time with the Fox trade and how our draft positioning is shaping up... but now I'm afraid we're going to hear about how Mitch did such an amazing job under the circumstances this year and why we should all be excited about the 7-year contract we drop on him in the offseason.


Those are the things that depress me most, not so much the lost opportunity to fight for the Play-In.

[baseline bum]

We're going to go back to giving 120 a night on defense. Incoming 15 game losing streak.

I mean that's the biggest thing to root for. Thank fucking god the Spurs didn't trade their 2025 pick.

[Ice009]

I've never really been all for tanking as we've had too many losing seasons and the players needed experience with something to play for. I feel they were going to make a really strong push to the end the season, but not much we can do about it now expect play hard and see what happens. I truly believe that '96/'97 team got Tim Duncan because they played hard. They played defense and they played tough. I don't believe they tanked on purpose (they just did what is best for their players), as the players that played, I think tried hard, but they just didn't have the talent. I felt bad for Dominique as he signed with the team for a chance to win. I do not want to see this team play porous defense and be traffic cones out there the remainder of the season. If we lose games we lose games, but they better fucking play hard.

[Guru of Nothing]

Pray for rebounds.

[baseline bum]

I've never really been all for tanking as we've had too many losing seasons and the players needed experience with something to play for. I feel they were going to make a really strong push to the end the season, but not much we can do about it now expect play hard and see what happens. I truly believe that '96/'97 team got Tim Duncan because they played hard. They played defense and they played tough. I do not want to see this team play porous defense and be traffic cones out there the remainder of the season. If we lose games we lose games, but they better fucking play hard.

Castle is the only player on this team who is very likely to be here in three years, assuming Wemby comes back strong next season. I don't give a shit about developing Vassell and Keldon for anything other than trade value. The Spurs got the pick for Tim because they won a lottery, there is no karma in the world.

[baseline bum]

Pray for rebounds.

I'm with it, ask sky daddy but just don't go sign guys who will actually get those rebounds and fuck our tank up.

[thiste]

Let Fox have his surgery.

[Spurs Homer]

Sochan - PG
Branham - G
Vassell - F
Keldon - F
Biyombo - C

i mean - who is the fucking jinx? (first Pop - now wemby???)
CP3?

Castle?



Fuck

[Guru of Nothing]

1. Maximize Castle's development.
2. B Wright puts in 20 hour days to line up off-season deals




3. De'Aaron Fox - get that surgery
4. Sochan takes 10 3-point attempts per game - brute force your way into my heart, Jeremy.
5. Prioritize Wesley over Branham and KJ - I still believe (I'd be okay with juicing KJ and Branham trade value instead, but let's be real about that possibility).

[sfernald]

Cry into our cereal...

[TimDunkem]

^Dumb take.

[baseline bum]

^Dumb take.

He's an OKC troll

[cutewizard]

Still in shock

This is crazy

[cutewizard]

Hope Wemby makes a full recovery

[eric365]

Make sure wemby use all this time on Shooting, Core strength, foot work and eveything he is allowed to train
He has 7 months to train without any pressure on whatever he want

[rjv]

stat padding for Castle so he can secure the ROTY award.

[Frenchfred]

Make sure wemby use all this time on Shooting, Core strength, foot work and eveything he is allowed to train
He has 7 months to train without any pressure on whatever he want

not if he needs surgery on his shoulder

[BacktoBasics]

Maybe Paul gets waived but he was about minutes over rings and I doubt that’s changed. He’s also been a valuable mentor. I expect him to finish the season on the roster.

[KobesAchilles]

All we can do is pray

[paperboy77]

Well this fucking sux. Hope the kid makes a full recovery although it's probably a 50/50 unfortunately. Also sux it was gonna be Wemby VS Bol Bol today. That really sux.

Oh well. Fox needs to go ahead and have his surgery and Spurs need to go all out tank mode. (Canceling $124/mo FUBO subscription as we speak.)

[spurraider21]

cancelled my league pass :lol... have until march 17 before i figure out if i want to re-up or anything like that

[Bruno]

A little something Spurs could do is to do sign 1 or 2 players with a non-guaranteed salary for next season.

This kind of contracts is helpful when it comes to match salaries in trades because these players trade value is their guaranteed salary. Spurs would just need to increase their guarantee to the amount that makes the trade works.

[The Truth #6]

I don't think anyone's mentioned how this affects coach pop and whether or not he comes back. I think there's arguments for both sides but if I had to guess he'll probably spend free time off the court with Victor but maybe has less inclination to come back to coaching.

[ChumpDumper]

Will this generate a hardship exemption and another roster spot?

Mo Bamba might not have made a lot of sense before, but he might now. Give a former top draft pick a last chance to salvage his career kind of move. At least there is upside to that. There is no long-term upside to Bigmac Bimbo. Might as well just be Gorgi Dieng out there.Bamba makes a lot of sense.

The only other guy I can think of who might be worth a shot at this point is Malik Williams, who is now shooting 3s well at a high volume in the G-League and should be playing a lot in the FIBA AmeriCup games this weekend.

[TrainOfThought5]

stat padding for Castle so he can secure the ROTY award.

CP3
Castle
Vassell
Barnes
Bassey?

[spurraider21]

thats it

its finally time to bring Ryan Richards and Nikola Milutinov over

[LeBowen]

thats it

its finally time to bring Ryan Richards and Nikola Milutinov over

Adam Hanga would be solid considering the lack of size at forward positions.

[Leetonidas]

thats it

its finally time to bring Ryan Richards and Nikola Milutinov over

Didn't we trade Multinov's rights to Brooklyn a few years ago? What could have been :cry

[exstatic]

I've never really been all for tanking as we've had too many losing seasons and the players needed experience with something to play for. I feel they were going to make a really strong push to the end the season, but not much we can do about it now expect play hard and see what happens. I truly believe that '96/'97 team got Tim Duncan because they played hard. They played defense and they played tough. I don't believe they tanked on purpose (they just did what is best for their players), as the players that played, I think tried hard, but they just didn't have the talent. I felt bad for Dominique as he signed with the team for a chance to win. I do not want to see this team play porous defense and be traffic cones out there the remainder of the season. If we lose games we lose games, but they better fucking play hard.

You might want to look the other way, then. The indicator will be if they shut Foxdown. If they do that, it’s bombs away.

[exstatic]

We have to keep going for the playoffs for Pop... Maybe trade Wemby for Chet at summer as a desperate win now move just in case wemby can't recover fully. Pop only has so many years left to win another championship!

Chet missed a whole season, and has already missed more games this (41) year than Victor will with this injury and previous rest games (36).

[Obstructed_View]

So....

A few no-brainers:

Shut down Fox. Get his finger fixed.

Start Castle. Let him learn on the job.

Tell Vassell this is his audition for next year.

Unlikely, but my preferences:
Start Julian with Castle, let CP stat pad on backups.

Give Pop his gold watch and announce a HC search now.

Sign reclamation projects, throw them minutes, see who sticks.

[Mugen]

So....

A few no-brainers:

Shut down Fox. Get his finger fixed.

Start Castle. Let him learn on the job.

Tell Vassell this is his audition for next year.

Unlikely, but my preferences:
Start Julian with Castle, let CP stat pad on backups.

Give Pop his gold watch and announce a HC search now.

Sign reclamation projects, throw them minutes, see who sticks.

Best we can do is Malaki at C tbh.

[rascal]

Kind of an outside shot, but I think there is a semi-realistic shot to get down to the 5th lottery seed, but getting to 7/8 range is definitely within reach.

I think they will likely at least get Fox one home game... would be an extra kick in the nuts for them to not even get to see our star acquisition.

After that, it's just full tank mode.

Unfortunately, this robs us of the opportunity to see Devin in a role that better suits him going forward (especially if/when Fox gets shut down). He'll be back into #1/#2 scorer mode. Maybe this is an opportunity for him and Keldon to increase their trade value at least.

Fuck this is depressing.

Goal should be for that 5th spot but it's going to be hard to get into the 5th slot. Toronto is playing at a .309 pace and has 27 games left. If they continue on their current pace they will get to 25 or 26 wins.

Spurs would have to go 3-27 to end with 26 wins.

[spurraider21]

Best we can do is Malaki at C tbh.
dont be ridiculous

he's a stretch 4

[Gagnrath]

No need to tank

As we will lose most of our games anyway even if we try

Why would we shud down fox? We pay his ass. He plays

Who cares about cp3?

Who cares who plays c?
We shut down Fox because he has an arm injury requiring surgery, he can play through it, and have surgery in the offseason which will probably get him back in time for next season, which makes sense if you're competing, if you aren't give more time.

[100%duncan]

Obvious is shut down Fox and get him to sign an extension in the summer.



Give Stephon the keys to San Antonio, fuck he literally is our only bright spot this season.

[KobesAchilles]

I don't think anyone's mentioned how this affects coach pop and whether or not he comes back. I think there's arguments for both sides but if I had to guess he'll probably spend free time off the court with Victor but maybe has less inclination to come back to coaching.
The man had a stroke. He won’t be able to coach going forward

[Amuseddaysleeper]

I don't think anyone's mentioned how this affects coach pop and whether or not he comes back. I think there's arguments for both sides but if I had to guess he'll probably spend free time off the court with Victor but maybe has less inclination to come back to coaching.

My biggest worry for this team is who is going to take over after Pop. Mitch ain't it, and we should really prepare for life after Pop as that is going to hit us sooner than we realize.

[scott]

Goal should be for that 5th spot but it's going to be hard to get into the 5th slot. Toronto is playing at a .309 pace and has 27 games left. If they continue on their current pace they will get to 25 or 26 wins.

Spurs would have to go 3-27 to end with 26 wins.

We're in agreement here rascal. I do think TOR, PHI and BKN all have a realistic (more realistic than the Spurs did before this news, honestly) shot at the Play-In in their conference. Raptors are 5 games out of it, but NO ONE in the east seems to want it, and they were actually playing fairly well before the ASB.

5 would definitely be a stretch for us, but that doesn't mean we can't give it the ol' Tankin' Try

[Seventyniner]

dont be ridiculous

he's a stretch 4

That most certainly is a stretch.

[Allan Rowe vs Wade]

Fuck it dude. Let's go bowl

[sfernald]

Chet missed a whole season, and has already missed more games this (41) year than Victor will with this injury and previous rest games (36).

It was just a suitably dumb answer to a dumb question “so what now?” Not to be taken so serious by all. It’s just a dumb game. Let’s just hope he stays healthy. There’s bigger things than bball out there as this reminds us.

[TheBallsbreakers]

This has been very deflating, mangs. Darn I hope Wemby is OK.

[Pauleta14]

I don't think anyone's mentioned how this affects coach pop and whether or not he comes back. I think there's arguments for both sides but if I had to guess he'll probably spend free time off the court with Victor but maybe has less inclination to come back to coaching.

I think the first step for Pop is to be back in shape, find his rhythm back etc

Even if Wemby was available, his process would be the same this season

[cutewizard]

We time travel and get Luis Scola....

[exstatic]

It was just a suitably dumb answer to a dumb question “so what now?” Not to be taken so serious by all. It’s just a dumb game. Let’s just hope he stays healthy. There’s bigger things than bball out there as this reminds us.

You wanted to trade for Chet because he’s white. You’re obsessed with white players and white draft prospects.

[sfernald]

You wanted to trade for Chet because he’s white. You’re obsessed with white players and white draft prospects.

Ewww having even just suggested that, are you sitting on ur bedroom laptop practicing ur secret sig heil on the web cam?

[spursparker9]

The answer is continue to play future HOF CP3 30mins and Castle 10mins :lol

At least can save Castle from injuries.

[Splits]

one thing for sure is to keep Castle under 15 minutes a game. who the fuck does this kid think he is?

[exstatic]

Ewww having even just suggested that, are you sitting on ur bedroom laptop practicing ur secret sig heil on the web cam?

There is no other explanation for none of the following being on your list:
Harper
Bailey
Edgecombe

I’m not the first to notice this and call you out on it.

[sfernald]

There is no other explanation for none of the following being on your list:
Harper
Bailey
Edgecombe

I’m not the first to notice this and call you out on it.

think this guys account got hacked here or something. No idea what he’s talking about. Are you still pissed that spurs missed out on Giddey trade?

[exstatic]

think this guys account got hacked here or something. No idea what he’s talking about. Are you still pissed that spurs missed out on Giddey trade?

Deny, deflect. I’ve also never been team Giddey. You, however, are definitely team white sheets and hoods.