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His summer league performance will determine if he'll get some playing time next season
PATFO will need to figure out where he can be slotted in the current rotation.Quote:
Originally Posted by objective
The starting five ... White, Forbes, DeRozan, Aldrige, Poetl covers up for Forbes defensive liability and needs Forbes to spread the floor. It's possible for Walker to replace Forbes and plug the defensive hole. It'll depend on how good a 3pt shooter Walker is.
The bench ... Mills, Walker, Belinelli, Bertans, Gay. This has a nice balance to it, it is small ball.
Spurs have only 9 players in the regular rotation, this isn't sustainable. I don't see Metu making any leaps compared to Walker. I don't see QPon or Cunningham ever becoming a rotation player.
Eubanks could be playing tbh. He’s not the most exciting thing, but his NBA-ready of all the youngsters and pretty solid moves. He can do cleanup assignments to lessen Aldridge minutes imoQuote:
Originally Posted by ceperez
on NBA radio they discussed that Walker was slotted to get real playing time before the season started. Then his knee injury happened.
They believed we would have been a top 3 seed in the west if not for injuries this year (Murray, Walker, White) and at time DDR and Gay.
Easily. That Murray/White tandem can frustrate any guards combination and add Poeltl to swat whoever gets by, if ever. Scores would be in the 90’s every night :lol:lolQuote:
Originally Posted by lmbebo
White looks great with decision making/ball handling and sneaky athlecticism and defense and shooting of all sorts
Murry is intriguing with his defense andathleticismbut really needs to improve decision making and shooting
Walker has shown nothing except he can jump and sometimes get his shot. Walker is young so he could get better. Walker is typical AAU baller-no defense at all-individual or team and only kicks it in on offense when he has the ball in his hands.
Not sure White would have gotten the minutes to develop as well as he has without the injuries. I think in the long run we will look back on this as a positive in a strange sort of way.
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Originally Posted by RC_Drunkford
Yeah, I agree.. This is why I had so much confidence/interest in Derrick White at the beginning of this season: he'd dominated the G League and then followed it up by dominating the Summer league. He was clearly a level above the guys around him. So far, Walker is pretty up & down with the G League. He's had good games, but also a few clunkers. His last game down there, he was 2-10 from the field, 0-5 from three, had two shots blocked, with 1 assist and 0 rebounds... strangely though, he was also the only player getting significant minutes with a positive +/- in a game that the team lost by 15 points. But he hasn't excelled against that competition to the same degree that White did last year.
jordan don’t know shit, spurs should try to package lonnie and demar in a sign and trade for kemba. would even do ddr + murray.
Looking forward to our Summer League team next year, wonder if Becky will coach and if Lonnie and Metu will dominate like Fathead and Juice used to.
Imagine Lonnie being able to catch and shoot 3's :wow
I want to see him being a lockdown defender first and a spot up 3pt shooter and slowly expand his game. From i've seen he has a lot of work to do to improve on both ends.
His offense is a lot further along than his defense. He shot 38.5% on mostly catch and shoot 3s. His form was superb, even in college. He just had poor shot selection, something the Spurs will clean up.Quote:
Originally Posted by GreekSpursfan
He needs to somehow get Mills minutesQuote:
Originally Posted by exstatic
Walkers first few games were terrible but as he started to get more comfortable and started to play much better. He got better pretty quickly considering he was coming off a knee injury I think some people forget that when judging his play. I am not a Walker fan boy and was on him in the beginning but he won me over and I think if Pop gives him a long leash he will make a big impact on the team...In a good way. Lol
I love the way he started playing when he starting getting some minutes towards the end of the season. I think it was a game against Denver, even though it was garbage time, he played quite well when he got the minutes towards the end of that game.
I am excited for summer league, and Lonnie is a big part of that.
I compared his per 36min stats during this past season with White's and Dejounte's (season two, not last one) and are identically the same, well almost! Dejounte is elite in rebounding, Derrick is above average, and Lonnie needs improvement, but Lonnie is also by far the best three point shooter, so that's that. And, obviously, Derrick is the better passer, and that's it as well. So to summarize Dejounte rebounds, Derrick distributes, and Lonnie makes threes.
So if Lonnie were to play solid defence, he would probably have a Derrick White kind of year. And to those who are hesitant because Lonnie played so little because of injuries (too small of a sample), I also I looked at their per36 in G-league stats (large enough sample) and guess what, they are also identical except for rebounds, assists, and the point percentage!
So not only are those three are really good, but complement each other very well!
Nice, a three - headed monster at the guard spot (ala Denver) is a dream scenario in this guard dominant league.Quote:
Originally Posted by alpha_HaZE
Now, we just need Pop to drop Patty and Marco from the roster....
I'm not as high on him as others. My first concern about every young player is defense because thats all about effort and commitment and i didn't see any of that from him. We don't need players especially young chilling on defense to keep themselves fresh on the other end.Quote:
Originally Posted by exstatic
If he doesn't show commitment on defense i don't think Pop is gonna give him more chances than he did this year.
I agree but I don’t think it was for lack of effort more so being in the right place at the right time. It always takes awhile for players to feel confident in knowing defensive sets and not over thinking everything and just playing. That’s Bertans problem you can tell he is over thinking on offense and defense and you can’t do that in the NBA.
The few minutes he got later during the regular season he did a solid job of man defense but got caught a couple of times ball watching while playing off ball defense.
He has the athletic ability and body to be a plus defender and he talked about and knows the way to get actual playing time in NBA games he has to play defense.
If he listens to the coaching staff and stays healthy the young man at the worst will be a solid player with a long career in the NBA. If he is really a gym rat he can become a all star caliber player because his shooting stroke is already good, he is a great athlete, and he already has an NBA body
One thing that surprised me when Spurs called him up he was the primary ball handler bringing the ball up which wasn’t the case in G League. He actually did a good job his handles kinda surprised me I am wondering what role they want him to play next season?
He's got the body for it.. Much more bulk than Murray with the same 6'10" wingspan. Dude can still jump judging from that dunk attempt at Denver..Quote:
Originally Posted by GreekSpursfan
Which was a bit surprising, considering the PG problems/issues that Austin had last year.Quote:
Originally Posted by BackHome
I remember noticing that, too. He did look good. If worst came to worst and they needed somebody at the point, better Walker than Forbes, it appeared.Quote:
Originally Posted by BackHome
Not a story about Walker in the gym or cutting his hair, so I don't like.
Lonnie Walker is the next great spur ... I hope
:lmaoQuote:
Originally Posted by Realdeal1
Need more of this.Quote:
Originally Posted by ace3g
I can guarantee you, the kids loved his hair.Quote:
Originally Posted by Chinook
Today's nbaQuote:
Originally Posted by tholdren
Not really.Quote:
Originally Posted by Play Boban
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Originally Posted by Chinook
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Originally Posted by tholdren
Good stuff, more of the same please.Quote:
Originally Posted by ace3g
We don't need clips and mixtapes of him looking like the second coming of Jordan. I'm sure he's working, we'll see his progress in real games.
Walker did surprisingly nothing at all in his rookie year. Wasn't NBA ready in the least bit it seems. Also oft-injured like his draft profile said
PATFO blew it per par.Quote:
Originally Posted by phxspurfan
You absolutely cannot play as a rookie on this team without training camp. It’s hard enough for vets from other teams to pick up the system.Quote:
Originally Posted by phxspurfan
CROFL @ any dumbass who expected Walker to do anything in the NBA last season after the injury.
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Originally Posted by Chinook
His dream is to fuck tigers in the pool?
Lonnie has a spurstalk account confirmedQuote:
Originally Posted by ace3g
:lolQuote:
Originally Posted by r0drig0lac
I remember when Bonner posted and was outed right away.Quote:
Originally Posted by r0drig0lac
Did this legitimately happen? I need a link, if so.Quote:
Originally Posted by bluebellmaniac
Yeah, that was funny. Shoulda stayed.Quote:
Originally Posted by bluebellmaniac
This never happened.Quote:
Originally Posted by bluebellmaniac
Shut up, Matty.Quote:
Originally Posted by playbonner15
TimVP had the goods on him. It was hilarious!Quote:
Originally Posted by Stump
I like Walker I think if he can stay healthy he is going to have a break out season.
Lonnie trolling Bernie Sanders. :rollin
If that were true, he never tried to call me out for shitting all over his career and saying that he was the worst player in NBA history to be paid a million.Quote:
Originally Posted by bluebellmaniac
Why would he give a shit about you?Quote:
Originally Posted by SpurPadre
By that logic, he wouldn't create an account here lol.Quote:
Originally Posted by Pavlov
Yes, he created an account solely because some anonymous edgelord was ranting.Quote:
Originally Posted by SpurPadre
Someone was stating that he created an account here and I made light of it. Calm down.Quote:
Originally Posted by Pavlov
:lol that's what people here have been telling youQuote:
Originally Posted by SpurPadre
Yea, I don't really have much to say about him. I didn't see enough of him to form an opinion and he was injured in college, came in, re-injured himself... he had catching up to do, in his health, getting in his basketball rhythm, etc. And Pop doesn't put any kind of pressure on rooks anyways. It's what they put in themselves.Quote:
Originally Posted by phxspurfan
Next season I hope is more telling is about his basketball is about all I can say right now.
tbh I see another season of development needed from him to be anything but a garbage time player. He's that raw/inexperienced. A season in Austin would benefit him greatly.Quote:
Originally Posted by SAGirl
Your opinion is far different that PATFO's. He wasn't even slated for Austin last year until he was injured. They had plans to play him with the big club.Quote:
Originally Posted by phxspurfan
6’4.5 with a 6’10 wing span and 40 inch vertical! Damn kid has all the tools. Hope Lonnie tears it up in summer league like White did last year. I hope he gets regular minutes this year we need him to develop quickly so we can contend again
He’s definitely gonna tear up the summer league fairly easily, key for him is to stay healthy and start hitting the 3 at a high level, we all know he’s a shot maker
Matt Bonner?????
the real one?
We need some sort of small forward type, like Grant Hill or Pressey
Throwing shade at DJ? :wow
:rollin
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More like people on Twitter were commenting on his vacation pictures questioning if he’s been in the gym this summer working on improving his game.Quote:
Originally Posted by NickiRasgo
Not a big deal
timvp is this the 20 lbs. you were talking about?
Ya, I guess he wasn't exaggerating ...Quote:
Originally Posted by ace3g
Is that true? How do you know that? I never heard that before. He was terribly raw.Quote:
Originally Posted by exstatic
When he substituted for DDR in the playoffs, tbh I thought that’s it for DDR. I think DDR is getting traded tomorrow for Sekou or similar and more :stirpot::stirpot: Watching his old team ring then getting traded for a draft pick? Dang :wowQuote:
Originally Posted by ace3g
Other thing to note ... that guy he's working out with is named Packie Turner. Packie rose to fame after his work as a skills coach for Steph Curry.Quote:
Originally Posted by ace3g
Safe to say Lonnie is working on his shooting :tu
Most potential on the team, and it's not close. He's in an must-keep tier all by himself.
Too much muscles?
Exactly!Quote:
Originally Posted by Chinook
Some of these folks on here aren't trying to hear it though. The guy got hurt and missed Training camp and barely played with the big club. He played solid coming back from injuries in Austin and once he got in his groove San Antonio pulled him from there.
The only thing that's going to hold the kid back is injuries because he seems to truly wanna be a great player. The coaching staff is going to put him on the right path for sure
If he can't stay healthy, ha won't help a lot at all.Quote:
Originally Posted by Chinook
There was talk of trading him on yesterday's local morning show, I thought these fools are out of their f'n minds this kid has the highest ceiling on the roster.
future star for sure
I see a breakout season for Walker for sure. He is electric with the ball in his hands and can get anywhere he wants on the floor with ease and that jump shot is going to be money. Because of our 3 young guards, we will be back in the hunt next year. Book it!
so shooting and handles it is? I expect great things from this kid, he got the potential to be a franchise player. Trading him in a draft where you gon get a bunch of role players would be retardedQuote:
Originally Posted by timvp
I know I’m not the only one but I’m on the Lonnie hype train BIG TIME
Oh damn - once Lonnie gets that half court pull up 3 down he’s unguardable!!Quote:
Originally Posted by timvp
Dude is def boom or bust ala samanic. hopefully he booms this season
I don’t give a f what anyone says - to get 3 young players with such incredible work ethics is amazing. It’s hard for anyone in this league; even with talent. The fact these 3 have it and work ethic? Sign me up.
Lol!Quote:
Originally Posted by DPG21920
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Originally Posted by Marco
Absolutely not. Lonnies biggest weakness is college was getting to the line and finishing through contact
It's crazy to think, but if he has a great year, maybe spending a year rehabbing and getting stronger and working on his shooting may be the best thing to happen to him.
I was on the Lonnie Walker IV wagon before last season even started. I wanted to see him play more than anyone else on the team. Dejounte was the other guy I wanted to watch second most after Lonnie. When they both got hurt in the preseason, I thought it was a huge blow. I hope they both come out and show how great I think they can be. Derek, I was also interested to watch, but wasn't as high on him, but he won me over during the season. Didn't have a great playoffs apart from one or two games, but I saw enough to believe he can be great too. I really hope everyone on the team can stay healthy this season and really show what they can do.
If even just two of Murray, White, Walker, and Luka pan out the way the Spurs hope they can...we should be in good shape.Quote:
Originally Posted by slick'81
We've waited two decades for a real youth movement, and so far, it seems to be in good hands.
This dude will be in the G league again next season.
There's the rub though: we don't know that they have "it" to go with the work ethic.Quote:
Originally Posted by DPG21920
He'll probably be outshone by Eubanks. I'm a big Walker believer and think he's going to be the best player out of everyone on the roster besides LMA and maybe DeRozan. But there's a ton of hype about him in SL, and it's just too unpredictable.
Release the Kraken! :lol:lol