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Things to be excited about next season:
1) Keldon in a featured role
2) Vassell's impact as a rookie
3) Samanic's development (if any)
4) White's consistency as one of the team's best players
5) Lonnie's new skill as an electrifying passer--he was the only one giving great passes to Poetl in the bubble. I sense great chemistry between these two.
If I missed any, please feel free to post in this thread.
Non of that will happen with Pop at the wheel.
We will see plenty of Forbes, Mills, hog all the minuets
So weird. I was still finishing up the poll when you posted.Quote:
Originally Posted by illusioNtEk
Mills expiring
By featured role you mean playing behind dd at 8 mpg
No more fucking Forms and Beli.
All of the above. Youth and talent development for the win.
https://thumbs.gfycat.com/ViciousUnc...restricted.gifQuote:
Originally Posted by Robz4000
The thing is... How many young players is too many young players before your development resources are exhausted? We have five promising young players. Do people really want the whole team to be comprised of all young players? At what point does having too many actually have a negative impact on the team itself? If there were too few vets, would the locker room be able to contain itself? Or would there be Bobby Portis incidents? Hmm...Quote:
Originally Posted by Spursfanfromafar
If they retain two of Patty/Rudy/DDR/LMA, the culture issue is sorted (ideally Patty & Gay). The current core is also a set of humble/ hardworking young dudes in Murray, White, Keldon, Lonnie, Poeltl plus Vassell and Tre Jones by all indications. The task is now to get a star out of one or two of these. My bets are on Keldon & Walker and solid starters/ role players among the rest.Quote:
Originally Posted by Dejounte
Is it though?Quote:
Originally Posted by Spursfanfromafar
Leadership roles in its most effective form consists of building good relationships.
How do you build good relationships? By giving your time and being intentional about it.
Usually leaders really have time to handle two-ish trainees.
If you only have two leaders/ vets on this team, that's six trainees per vet. How can you really dedicate your time building a relationship with six people?
Rebuild is not in fo vocabulary it’s obvious we should rebuild but do says nope another year or mills Aldridge gay and dd
Looking forward to seeing Luka's development. Assuming this is the last year of DDR and LMA, we could go into next offseason with a projected SL of:
Murray
White
Keldon
Luka
Poeltl
IF Luka shows signs of being our future 4, I don't think we'll need to target any one position in the draft (lottery??) and FA. Just collect talent and make upgrades where possible.
I hope so too but Luka is buried at the bottom of the depth chartQuote:
Originally Posted by Light
Playing without Forbes/Beli/Mills combination. I don’t know how it took almost the entire season to realize that the experiment wouldn’t work. It took playing in the bubble and some injuries, to realize that we have young athletic core who plays better and could ho toe to toe with the best in the league. Now to have everybody healthy back, seeing the duo of White and Murray, Vassell’s defensive impact as legitimate 3 and D, this team could be so much better imo.
Luka just needs to compete with Lyles and Gay.Quote:
Originally Posted by Dhbsr555
-Lyles gets playing time because he knows his rotations and the game plan to the T, not because he's super talented.
-Father time is coming for Gay, so we might definitely see Luka at least replace him by the end of the season as a bench PF or by next season.
This is how I see the minutes distribution to be:
Murray (28)/ Lonnie (24)/ Tre
White (28)/ Vassell (20)/ Mills or Q
DeMar (28)/ Keldon (26)/ Q
Lyles (20)/ Gay (18)/ Samanic
Aldridge (26)/ Poetl (22)/ Eubanks
-On Vassell: for reference, Nephew received 24 minutes of playing time in his rookie year.
-DJ, Lonnie, Poetl, and White all see +4 mins increase in playing time from last year
-DeMar and LMA see -6 mins decrease in playing time from last year
-Keldon sees +8mins increase in playing time from last year
The more I think about it, the more I see that Devin is the PERFECT teammate for Samanic. Devin is known as a supportive teammate, and became really close with Patrick Williams. Luka's spots and role are very similar to Pat with FSU. Pat is known as the shy, passive type who needs confidence and I believe Luka is a similar type. There's opportunity there for great chemistry.
My fav moments in upcoming season: 8th seed, 1rnd exit, late pick in a draft, lma&ddr gone for nothing, using cap space to overpay old vets. CANT WAIT. IM SO EXCITED THAT I JUST CANT HIDE IT.
Luka has taken a sabbatical from social media for about a month now. He's going to surprise people.
You Missed Forbes being gone.
I also and looking to DJM resurgence to being a good player.
If Murray is not shipped out, I will be watching to see if/how he has progressed. I am on the Keldon bandwagon.
Spurs get the No.1 pick in 202!
Hell yeah! Time travel!Quote:
Originally Posted by FvckMavs
It was a small sample size, but KJ and White really seemed to jell in the bubble. I hope that continues to grows as other compatible pairings emerge-- maybe Walker/Vassell, or Samanic/KJ. I'm still worried that Pop will play DDR 34 mpg. If that's not the case, I think it'll make a big difference, both for wins and development.
That seems like the direction we're heading in.Quote:
Originally Posted by spurspl