The official Kawhi Leonard breakout AKA SUPERSTARDOM Year....

I think Kawhi is MVP material, but Aldridge is more likely to put up gaudy numbers.

Back to back NBA DPOY awards for the Claw!!!!!!

Gobert has the DPOY clinched if he's 80% the force he was in the second half of last season.

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Originally Posted by ceperez

Leonard at best would be the 3rd leading scorer, he'll behind both Parker and Aldridge.

Spurs lost against the Clippers because Leonard had to force his offensive game. Clippers quickly shut it down by double teaming him down low.

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I'm anxious to see how the Aldridge and West additions at PF will give Kawhi more spacing, and provide the much-needed counter to double-teams on Kawhi. He will need to learn and practice how to swing the ball quickly.

I am hopeful it will help TP as well (and TP remains mostly healthy), but the way forward will be for TP be remain a consistent threat but not a scoring workhorse. I am thinking the bulk of the offense should move through the mid-post and give Kawhi room to penetrate, kick or post, much like Lebron. And even push Aldridge to do the same,.

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Originally Posted by Spurtacular

On the other hand, I think Pop will allow Kawhi liberties to make sure he's in the all-star game.

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Interesting. The idea that Pop cares whether one of his players makes the all-star game never even crossed my mind. I still think that if any Spur averages 20 pts it means that some other player (or players) is not performing at optimal level.

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Originally Posted by sasaint

Interesting. The idea that Pop cares whether one of his players makes the all-star game never even crossed my mind. I still think that if any Spur averages 20 pts it means that some other player (or players) is not performing at optimal level.

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I can't remember the years off hand, but Pop has done this for Parker and Ginobili at times, imo. He knows that the media loves to use that as a metric and that it means something to the players as well. On the other hand,

Iggy > Kawhi, both prove they could be fmvp as X factor, Kawhi better mid range shooter but Iggy a better defender, better playmaker, passer and all around and more mental thoughness and leadership... So hope Kawhi can improve upon that..

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Originally Posted by apalisoc_9

going to bump this in a few months and laugh at you losers

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OP with the goods. :lol

Damn, almost everybody here was underrating Kawhi. I'm still not sure he can keep up with this pace, but so, far there are no problems. Nice call OP.

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Originally Posted by kobyz

Iggy > Kawhi, both prove they could be fmvp as X factor, Kawhi better mid range shooter but Iggy a better defender, better playmaker, passer and all around and more mental thoughness and leadership... So hope Kawhi can improve upon that..

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Smdh

Wasn't for Curry historic season Kawhi would have had a shot at MVP..Hopefully he keeps it up and finish Top 3 in voting..Spurs need to have 60+ win season to achieve that..

:lmao

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Originally Posted by SPURt

http://s12.postimg.org/z183q1vrx/spursfunny.jpg

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I'm ok with my analysis at the time

http://espn.go.com/blog/san-antonio-...to-a-superstar

Vanilla fans :lmao

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Originally Posted by Emperor

Yup, i actually think this is the year Aldridge can become MVP especially if we end up with the best record. I hope Kawhi gets back to back DPOY though and an all star selection.

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:lmao

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Originally Posted by dabom

OP with the goods. :lol

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Hey apa! You just love to jinx Kawhi over and over again ohh?!?!

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Originally Posted by bic50

Smdh

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Kawhy so overrated, spurs losing to any decent team especially close games because of him, he can't lead to wins, lol people getting fooled by spurs record, it's actually a bad record considering the easiest early season schedule in history!

Kiwi can't dominate when Spurs aren't already up by 20 :bang

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Originally Posted by kobyz

Kawhy so overrated, spurs losing to any decent team especially close games because of him, he can't lead to wins, lol people getting fooled by spurs record, it's actually a bad record considering the easiest early season schedule in history!

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Fucking moron

Superbitch

Kawhi in his nature is not savvi and a leader enough to be a superstar, to count on him being the guy is asking for trouble at the end of the day...

I agree. I don't see Kawhi carrying Spurs through a playoff campaign. I hope Lamarcus gets his act together and maybe both together could carry us.

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Originally Posted by in2deep

I agree. I don't see Kawhi carrying Spurs through a playoff campaign. I hope Lamarcus gets his act together and maybe both together could carry us.

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That and I really hope green can start hitting 3s again.

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Originally Posted by kobyz

Iggy > Kawhi, both prove they could be fmvp as X factor, Kawhi better mid range shooter but Iggy a better defender, better playmaker, passer and all around and more mental thoughness and leadership... So hope Kawhi can improve upon that..

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