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I'd go with the youngest.
https://www.spurstalk.com/san-antoni...dancy-problem/
Pretty much everyone agrees that Forbes/Mills/Belinelli provide the same things. Interested to hear what steps you guys think we need to take with these 3 guys.
I'd go with the youngest.
I’d get rid of all 3 and give their minutes to Walker
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If the Spurs were in any kind of contention, I would keep Mills, but since they're not, I'd
keep Forbes, and trade the older vets Marco, and Mills.
Initially that was my thought but I wouldn't be against keeping Patty over the other 2. He seems to be the better leader of the 3 and probably the more consistent player on both ends. Its not saying much when being compared to Forbes and Marco but still. I'm sure his next contract will be much more team friendly.
Get rid of Forbes and Marco ASAP.
Bryn and Marco need to go ASAP. Give their minutes to Lonnie and Carroll and end games with Murray and white
Harsh on Mills, he brings much more than the other two. I'd put Rudy in there instead. He's been a walking corpse this season.
It's a shame that the best volume 3 point shooters are so bad at everything else, but that's what they have. Wish White would be more aggressive with his shot ( and with everything else ), even if his % drops there's value in volume 3 point shooting.
I really don't know what the deal with Rudy is. Obviously he is not the scorer he once was, but last year he did a great job of playing within himself and was super efficient.
This year...it's like he is the walking definition of losing a step. His movement is slow and jerky, his lateral quickness is gone, he is constantly fumbling and bumbling the ball away, and his jumper seems to have disappeared.
Oh, and he needs to stop trying to dunk on people. His body simply can't do that anymore. I've never seen a guy miss so many dunks over the course of two seasons.
He got paid
He's the definition of washed. At least with LMA you see flashes that he still has something left in the tank... Rudy is just going through the motions, badly.
Nah, Gay got a year older, and especially his feet and ankles got a year older. His wheels are wobbly.
The redundancy on the Spurs roster is worse than the article says. There's eight guards on the 15 man roster (DDR is actually a shooting guard,) then also Quinndary is a guard. Keldon Johnson is listed as SF but he's 6'5"; that's a guard.
In classic NBA terms, a "true" depth chart for the current Spurs might look something like this.
PG - Murray, White*, Mills**
SG - DDR, Forbes, Belinelli, Walker, Johnson
The team has one point guard who was drafted and signed as such, six players who are basically shooting guards, and White, noted below.
SF - Carroll. He is really the only SF, "classically," and he's not playing. This is at a position considered highly important in the modern NBA.
PF - LMA***, Gay, Lyles, Metu, Eubanks. Metu and Eubanks are usually at center when they get a chance to play, in this small-ball era.
C - Poeltl. "Classically" the only center.
*When Derrick White was drafted all the talk was about him being the team's future SG, and the scouting reports all called him a combo guard. Fortunately, considering the team's situation, he's shown ability to play point.
**Mills is actually an SG, who has a lesser ability to play point.
***Aldridge is really an old fashioned, big PF, a kind of player that's nearly extinct now. He would have been perfect paired with a 7' center, back when the whole league was trying to do "twin towers." He plays center now because of the change that has happened in the NBA.
So..... one point guard, one combo guard, six shooting guards, one SF who doesn't play, five PFs, and one center. Hm. It's oddly unbalanced from a head coach/team president who allegedly favors classic basketball.
I agree I am OK staying with Mills he is playing much better and I think he really helps keep the team together. His next contract should be team friendly and I don’t think he would complain being a backup role - I also think he will make a great assistant coach in the future.
As far as Forbes he is not fast enough to guard PG not big enough to guard SG his defense is just terrible. I will be royally pissed if they give him another contract try to trade him or let him go when his contract is up. The same thing for Beli and Gay who I both really like but understand that they Father Time has caught up to them and we need to move on. The same for Poop
This is exactly why I said the off-season was a failure and made zero sense. This front office truly has no idea what it is doing.
On the original question by the OP, I have to say that Mills is the keeper, because he has some ability to play point guard. The need for that is always only one injury away. I'd prefer to have somebody other than Mills as the emergency PG, but if Mills is what there is, so be it.
I can't imagine Beli playing point guard, not in any serious way. In addition to the problems he's shown this year, he has no versatility.
Forbes played PG last season, for a while, because of the terrible injury situation. He got some praise, maybe even from me (I don't recall,) but that was because he was able to do it at all, not that he was good at it. Forbes has no versatility either.
So I guess I'd keep Mills, since he's already here, and look to part ways with Forbes and Beli.
if forbes and belli get hot and i mean hotter than a pistol, then they can stay, start, whatever. but if theyre not shooting at a 45% pace the rest of the way, it’s dumper juice time fellas
It all seems so simple but yet for far fetched. If Spurs fans feel this way, why is it the front office dont!?!
because PATFO doesn't care what happens inside the court, it's important to keep your favorites with a job.
They actually did, orbat least attempted to rectify the roster issues. In the offseason I wrote a piece that the Spurs should target two of Carroll, Morris, Crowder, and trade Bertans for it to happen. I nearly nailed it if it wasn't for Morris show. Not promoting Walker and Carroll in the rotation is just flawed decision making on Pop. You look internally before externally via trades. Pop just moved Lyles and Poeltl around.
I cant wait to see the reaction on this site when Forbes is signed a huge deal. Pop is on quote saying he wants to pay him. The Spurs view Forbes as a starter and starts get paid.
It’s not hard to understand. That’s why I wasn’t excited like a lot on here when they brought him back for 32 million. Sure, he played great last year and was a huge factor in this team winning 48 games, but he was only gonna be coming back a year older and more broken down from that injury. Just turned out to be another thank you contract for an aging vet.
Rudy Gay been garbage since the playoffs last year. He basically fell off a cliff right then and there. Luckily PATFO has been so smart to lock him up for another 2 years on a bargain 16 million per year deal
It’s baffling. You thought they would have learned their lesson after the Gasol deal, who’s being paid by them to be a mentor in Portland.
Rudy was also signed to help with DEROZZ and they both Cali guys so keep Rudy hopefully makes DEROZZ stay happy.
No, Rudy Gay is from Baltimore.
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