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Very astute observations tbh
This is our team minus a hurt Derrick White. PATFO would have already made a move if they wanted to bring someone else in. It will be a rotation of G-League semi-scrubs sitting on the bench rest of the year. We are not getting Jimmy Butler, Patrick Beverly, Trevor Ariza, Tyson Chandler, Stanley Johnson, no one of any prominence is coming this season. No buy out players are coming. PATFO will not make a trade unless the player asks to be moved. They won’t give up our draft pick or the Toronto pick to add a better player.
This year is about getting our young players experience and integrating Derozen into the Spurs system. Playoffs may happen, but we won’t go far. Realistically, we have only two players who can score 25+ points and a lack of defensively skilled players. People need to adjust lofty expectations for this team. There is no panic needed when they struggle during the season. Lean into this mediocre team and enjoy the ride known as the 2018-2019 Spurs!
Very astute observations tbh
Facts.
Impeccable timing
Agreed. Just enjoy watching Derozan get these 30 plus games. There is no expectation of winning a le along with no pressure that comes associated with it.
get out of here with your perfect logic, this is not spurstalk stuff
No one expect this team to be a contender.
ill be happy if aldridge or derozan get to all nba team , allstar game and win a playoff series(first round)
Which puts us ahead of last year, when we kept thinkin' Nephew would return. At least no distractions now.
Look, Kawhi ed this team hard. I don't know what you expect from this team after he ed them over so hard. Trying to maintain winning basketball is the limit at this point.
The excision of a metastasizing growth cannot be overstated. At some point, that cancer will come back, be it this year or another. We should all be grateful it's going to attack the body of a different franchise than the Spurs when it does.
Gay can easily score more than 25. He is shooting such a high FG% right now and averaging 15+ pts. Great thing is his wingspan is allowing for a lot of disruption on the boards and defensive end as well. This is at least a middle of the road playoff team in the West as currently constructed (with injuries). Considering those teams along with the Spurs have been so bad and can be considered trying to rebuild for many years and now have young superstars as well, we are doing pretty darn good in my book. Sorry we can't compete with super teams doesn't mean our fans can't enjoy the team as currently constructed.
The way things are going no one can compete with the Warriors. The Warriors look like they are going to go on a Russell Celtics type of a run if they keep everybody together. It's pretty much why I don't care to watch them anymore during the regular season or even the playoffs unless the Spurs are playing them. It's also the reason why losing Kawhi hurts a lot less.
We know that. It's more about bringing them in NEXT season. The problem with that is that as long as we got Mills on the books we can't bring them in NEXT season unless we trade for them THIS season, so we have bird rights to resign them. Otherwise NEXT season will be exactly like THIS season. Stanley Johnson would be the only exception as the MLE should be enough to get him.
Is this a religious observation?
This is true.
Tanking is not a panacea either. Look at the 76ers. Year after year of top of the draft picks and while they now have a nice compe ive team, they still haven't solved the mystery of advancing to the finals, even the ECF.
Tanking buys you a lottery ticket. This organization has won twice by being bad the year David Robinson and Tim Duncan came out.
That being said, I am enjoying watching this team nonetheless. DeMar has been amazing to see, LA is starting to get it going, Rudy is strong, even Bryn Forbes is turning into a player in front of us. I am looking forward to seeing how LWIV and Derrick White do when they get back in.
My concerns are Davis is disappointing and I worry that Derrick White may be brittle.
Derrick white and lonnie Walker are calvary tbh. We need them both for defensive purposes.
Call me delusional but I can see ariza being waived and The Spurs picking him up. Likely no, possibility yes
Naw, I meant cavalry. Good catch
I agree with the overall thought here -- however I do think the Spurs will be active on the buyout market.
I agree, zero chance of winning a le with GSW. Spurs did the league a favor by trading their defense (kawhi and green) to another contender (toronto) that has a smidgen of a chance of defending against GSW.
Naw, I meant cavalry. Good catch
TBH as long as Kawhi is on the Raptors I will root hard for their failures granted I'm not following them during the regular season. If the Raptors get to the finals then I hope the Warriors sweep them. My hatred for Kawhi overrides my hatred for the Warriors.
I disagree. It’s a win now situation with Demar, LMA and even Pops. Demar for one is on a mission. He was just traded because he couldn’t deliver. He’s out to prove himself and FO needs to feed that hunger. A losing season will not help the Spurs. Demar would leave. And San Antonio cannot absorb another superstar leaving. It would be a fast downward spiral to mediocrity with Pops leaving sooner. I don’t think they would go all in with the house money, but would call when opportunity come knocking. Right now their little experiment is working. We are beating the teams that we are suppose to beat. Dante is serviceable. Poindexter seems decent. Will wait for White and Walker to come aboard. Assess if anything else is missing to make another run. Having been a Spurs fan since 1988, I’ve learned that Spurs is not about just getting into the playoffs. It’s winning the ring. Not kamikaze style, but making the right call, making extra pass, cut hard, rebound, closeins. They would not get Butler if they don’t think they could afford him. But if the price is right and would get them over the hump, why not? So right now they’re assessing.
I would think Derrick White is the backup PG at this point right? Like Forbes has seemingly won the starting job imo but idk. If Walker is a player then he gets minutes over Bertans/Cunningham.
The Spurs almost certainly won't make a trade, but there's no reason to think they had to make one already. Half their roster can't be traded yet. Other half are guys like Mills and Gasol whose contracts are too big and who play too big of roles to be moved so lightly. Or they're guys on rookie deals whom the team wouldn't want to move in a panic deal.
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