SAGirl
Hope springs eternal.

This one actually pinpointed Sochan accurately

I think the groupthink got this one really well. Mathurin was gone, but Sochan was next.

Safe to say re-signing is not happening.

Bad juju :toast

I think it’s more that the Spurs are really in this limbo where they want to be competitive but not really… They don’t want to tank but stopped being in denial about the need to rebuild finally. Based on what they have done recently they aren’t interested in win now players. They have only...

I don’t see it there either with Primo yet and then I can’t really say anything about any of the rookies based on stats and a super short highlight video. I personally can’t answer this question that OP is posing. I am not high on Primo as an all star potential type. Want to see him do well and...

stuff is more complicated than that... its been discussed all over here so I am not up for more of it... but its not something that disqualifies him for me.

Same. Unless he has just been held back and we don't see what coaches see in practice, I don't get it either.

Thanks for sharing. So satisfying to see. :lobt2:

I’d ship Jakob out and add Ayton. That’s really my preferred move.

I am in this boat as well. Also think they need to make a win now move now too.

I think they honest considered Dieng there but nit to keep. He was traded to OKC for 3 first round picks! 3! So I do think they are talking and taking calls about him at 9. They eventually decided those 3 picks weren’t worth passing up Sochan. There were other trades they potentially rejected too...

If you solidly and honestly believe this, I think you have answered your own question. The next play is undoubtedly and unavoidably a Murray trade then. I am solidly in tow with a true rebuild. They should have gone that way in 2018, after they traded Kawhi, taking a package based on younger...

Many thanks, bro. Glad to be back!

Many thanks! Looks like a great town. I'll let you know if or what can be done when checking with my Ukrainian friends that are displaced. Very kind of you. Best, Bill

^ I cant edit my post bc of the admin trying to keep the server speed working.. but Id add that the play for Gordon Hayward would go in hand with plays they have made recently to rehab injured veteran players to bolster their bench like most notably Rudy Gay, but more recently Zollins. I am...

I think Ayton would improve the team significantly. I dont think ppl realize how much they overrate Jakob frankly. I hate to get in this kind of subject bc it looks like I am attacking Jakob when I really am not. He has been solid, very good for what they have needed, but the last time the Spurs...

You have to consider the possibility that who they really wanted at 38 was Houstan… he also went earlier. But its a hypothetical. I do think that they felt comfortable selling that pick and kicking it down the road bc whoever they wanted at that spot was taken.

This is my take currently… (and I reserve the right to change it bc things are fluid), Id rather they try to build a better team next season and get a costar for Murray. He really took a step forward, made the all star team, was in the running solidly for MIP. Ive waxed poetic about how that is no...

Great summary. I am there!!! The happiest I have been about a draft in a long time. Would have loved a big man with upside, but can’t have it all, and to make that wish of mine a reality, they would have had to sacrifice other things. Chinook and Timvp sold me on Barlow as a good...

There were trades to be had by picking Dieng or Duren, but if they did that, they would risk Sochan for real. I am glad they didn’t get cute there. So han solves a lot of problems for the team, if they had gotten cute and ended up not getting him, the assets they would pick up in the trade wouldn’t...

When you mentioned Caleb Houston it just made me think he was the Spurs target at 38, but bc he went earlier then they just sold the pick. Houstan size would have fit in with adding another 6’8” player, this one more of a project but someone to make them more comfortable having depth and size to...

Dieng was traded to OKC for 3 lottery protected firsts!!! I still don’t know what OKC is doing there…

To me, the fact the drafted two SG, let’s call them wings, means Richardson is out in a trade as soon as they find one they like. I suspect it wouldn’t be terrible if the most raw of the rookie wings needs some Gleague and then plays more after a midseason Richardson trade if it comes to that.

Avery thinks he's a project who will spend the next 2 years in the G-League. That's not the narrative I've been reading.

I see the complaint about guards but Wright mentioned that word like 100 times next to BPA yesterday. I dont see that as a problem. Walker isnt coming back.. have more to say but it wil have to wait.

Interesting. I can’t deny though that he seems like yet again the Spurs skimping on big man talent and going with super value options, but they had more pressing needs than big men help. Glad you ended up getting a big man prospect Chinook.

Looking good. :flag::flag:

Go hard after Ayton. He's my primary target.