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He got the Tony spin cycle
It is cool. Hopefully he keeps building every game.
He got the Tony spin cycle
Murray
White
Keldon
Tall Luka
Poetl
Defensive lineup with good potential on offense.
If Luka turns out as a decent player, we are suddenly long as .
The tools have been there. You heard this when RC drafted him and they spoke about it.
if RC Buford is excited about a young kid, you get him.
he’s still raw, he pretty much deserves to be the permanent backup 4 but won’t be.
his defense now is damn good, the perimeter defense is terrific.
give the kid minutes, let him develop. 2019 and 2020’s drafts are going to end up being aces.
Harden figured out he could body Luka on drives, but Samanic was staying in front of him fairly well. Certainly better than Lyles, who was hopeless. Samanic is much faster than I expected and his length really helps in the half-court. Give him more time.
I wonder what clicked for him he went from lacking enthusiasm early in the season to having some dog in him very odd
Smaller and less skilled, but bigger heart 29th pick Keldon playing the starting PF should spell it for him. Luka impressed me as feeling en led because of his godgiven skills, but finding himself still in the GLeague in his 2nd year should have lit up his behind. He was going fast the Trey Lyles way if he doesn’t fix it fast. I’m glad he is responding positive and taking it as a challenge to earn his minutes. I hope Pop gives him some burn in both the SF/PF position. I know Vassell needs minutes as well. At this time, Luka making the leap could send this team to contender category, and that’s no stretch
The Keldon at 29th was a steal, but Luka at 19 is starting to look pretty solid now
He may have just grown up a bit. He's always been a project. Probably just depressed he wasn't playing. It's also likely that all us armchair psychoanalysts exagerrated everything (myself included). Normal for ST.
We also have a tendency to forget how big of a leap it can be between everything before the nba and the nba. Yeah Some euroleague teams are way closer than they used to be but there is still a gap especially on the night in night out level plus some style/rules differences, add in a real young guy with culture differences and the whole Covid no clue what the world was doing and you have a recipe for a guy looking like like he's scared of everything.
True. Well said!
Why yes, it’s almost like a bunch of hyper critical posters on these boards and Spurs Twitter have spent the past two years repeating racist stereotypes about European players and projecting all manner of things on a shy kid between the ages of 19 and 21 that’s in the middle of adjusting to a new culture and new way of playing basketball thousands of miles away from all of his friends and family.
It also appears that a bunch of not very smart basketball analysts on these forms assume that Luka not knowing where to be or what to do on help defense as he makes this adjustment meant he had “motor” issues or was lazy and non-compe ive because they didn’t watch him play, and couldn’t figure out that a guy who’s generally good on ball defensively but routinely out of position on help defense is just slow to react because he’s developing a feel for the North American game.
It’s now even more likely that these same really annoying people will go on proclaiming Luka is an asshole later on in his career should he chose to not re-sign with the Spurs once he’s a free agent after they spent his first few years in the league dumping all over him.
Stay classy SpursTalk.
Can't discount the Gubble stint, he is overpowering guys there. Used to get bumped off spots often last year which prevented him from playing his game. Confidence boost from that is huge since that was his weakness coming in.
There was a play where Luka fell down guarding someone. Not sure what happened there, but Pop went over to his assistants right after and and was confused as well. I'm glad Pop is coaching him up after every play. Not sure I saw that in the limited minutes Metu would play in the NBA.
there was also the stint where he missed an assignment, there was a foul, he immediately went to Pop got his ass chewed off and ran back, he knew the mistake but pop still yelled.
pop sees the talent, when he gives a to yell is when you know they’re worth it. It’s when he’s laissez faire with a guy that he’s not long.
I think it was the reach in foul on Harden. Pop is a big NO to reaching in to players like Harden who will get that call every time. Luka’s hand got caught in a cookie jar and Pop had to remind him on that
thays exactly what it was and Elliott pretty much said as much as he was running back. Thanks.
He's following the same path almost every Spurs draft pick take.
His feel for the game will come along. Slowly, but surely.
I watch Austin Spurs games, and he was literally walking back on defense last year, when he missed a bunny, or didn’t get a call. Not all of the criticism is unwarranted. It’s also not like he didn’t show up here with at ude and motor questions. They kinda followed him from Europe.
I’ve been a proponent of the pick since draft day, but I’ve seen too many talented players bust out to say he’s going to make it, even now. He’s always had a complete physical and skill tool set, and it was always going to come down to at ude and effort on a consistent basis.
Exactly. There’s a middle ground. It’s not all heroes and zeros.
Yeah, Samanic's recent play doesn't invalidate observations made during his prior stints.
If you're going criticize people giving their thoughts about a player because you can't accept what they have to say, my opinion is that you should give your own observations too instead of throwing mud from the sidelines.
This is only in reference to people who are actually watching Samanic play and want to give their own observations about a player. No one's pretending to be an expert. And I also believe if you're too lazy to watch a player yourself, then you'll tend to go by hearsay or worse-- twitter analysis by crazed fans.
Last edited by Dejounte; 03-02-2021 at 04:38 PM.
Luka hasn't embarrassed himself and all of a sudden spurstalk is back on his nuts cause he getting minutes over our 3rd string center and marcus morris signing fiasco cast off
I have been critical and rooting for the kid but I'm going to keep the front of my pants free for now everytime he makes a good basketball play...he is the number 19 pick after all and is pretty much a year behind where all our other number 1 picks over the last 4 years were in their second year
Look who is headlining the marquee for tonight's game.
Dude needs to hit them roids like bronbron
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