Just needs to get over himself before playing time perorders.
Come on fellas we know this...Pop never changes
I'd pretty strongly disagree with this. Smith has some good tools and we're now seeing a guy like Mo Bamba starting to come into his own. I'm not a fan of Smith, but bailing after one year is astonishing. He's not a bored, listless asshole like Samanic. This has money all over it, coming from the franchise that just outright sold good draft picks this past decade for the same reason.
Bambi’s a physical and athletic freak. His wingspan is like 7’8” or maybe 7’9”. Smith has nowhere near the physical or athletic attributes of Bamba. He just has no standout attributes, and isn’t a particularly hard worker to compensate for that lack. Sammich, with a tan.
If his work ethic is lacking, then, yeah. I'm not plugged into that information.
Thaddeus carrol is baaack baby
Gotta hand it to Thad
He is in there balling with his herky jerkey style
Heady high post passes and high energy D even when he is undersized. Flipping in those lefty hooks.
Good for Thad Young shedding the Carroll surname
Yeah, obviously the sample size is tiny, but you could argue he's having a top-three season in his career so far. I like Eubanks a fair bit, but the Spurs should be playing Young at center over him in the second unit. This is definitely an extended pre-season, but if the Spurs have any interest in making a playoff push, they can't afford to let their record get much worse. The upside of a Young-led bench is just too high.
He’s trying to get his stock up. I’m sure he has an understanding with Pop to send him to a contender for the right price.
I was thinking the same thing. Imma quit complaining about him.
Yep he ain’t all that
But
He is way better than nuthin
I wonder if Thad, White and Walker IV could fetch a mid first or young asset and a bad contract for salary matching purposes.
Change Walker with Keldon an im on board
Keldon is >>>>> Walker IV. Walker is a poor-man’s Lou Will. Like dead broke.
Sure most of you have seen this but didn’t see this posted anywhere else. He has been a total professional so far and is saying all the right things. Buyout imminent IMO.
https://www.kens5.com/amp/article/sp...9-21ae40ef716d
I'm sure the Spurs will try to trade him first, and they should be able to get a second-round pick at the very least.
I can totally understand Thad being frustrated. He's on the downslope of his career age-wise and I'm sure he would rather be playing for a contender, or at least playing significant minutes. Pop will want to do right by him, but if a middling team offers a first then I think Pop jumps on it. Thad's contract is expiring and he can ring-chase next year.
Yeah it’ll be tough to both, do right by Thad and get something we actually want in return. FRP is looking less likely from any playoff team and I don’t see us making a larger mid season trade of any sort which is why I came to that conclusion.
I remain curious if a package of Thad, White and Walker could bring in a longer term piece or a mid FRP and another vet on a less than ideal contract.
I think he’ll be traded, either in the early FA trade availability window this month, or on deadline day. If they weren’t looking to trade him, they’d be playing him more. I think they’re trying to play him enough to stay in game shape, without over exposing him to injury.
He should be playing more. If the goal is to trade him, Thad should be playing to boost his value. He's clearly still as good as he was last year, but him being benched for an inferior player is giving off the impression that the Spurs don't think he can help them win. If the Spurs are tanking, bench Young makes sense, but then Primo or at least Jones should be a solid rotation player over Forbes. Young is way more of a "helpful vet" like McDermott than Bryn, who directly competes with the team's top prospects for minutes. Sure, Young competes with Eubanks, Landale and eventually Collins. But two things: First, none of those guys matters. Second, if the goal is to trade Young, then there should be plenty of time to give those other players minutes later in the year once Young is off the team. It's not even like Pop is rotation Landale in to give him time. It's just Eubanks constantly getting in the rotation over Thad. I like Drew, but, no.
In other words....
Fvck!
https://www.basketballnews.com/stori...n-is-not-ideal
Spurs' Thad Young frustrated about role: 'This situation is not ideal'
I think we all understand where he’s coming from but Spurs are not a fan of having terms dictated to them by players. This could get messy…
This could work in our favour as PATFO will be less inclined to cater to his wishes and decide to trade him for the best return versus working with him to get him to a playoff team.
The sooner they trade him the better. I like his game but he’s not part of Spurs rebuilding and causing Landale precious on-court minutes. I’m not sure how much game-shape Zollins would be, but again I rather see him also.
I really think Morey handling of Simmon f%cked us up not able to include Thad in a potential 2-3 teams trade. But again the sooner Spurs trade him, the better the Spurs get back to rebuilding program.
Great interview... I like Thad Young. Constant pro.
I really don’t think Thad cares about being on a contender, he just wants to be somewhere that he gets consistent minutes
Sounds to me like he wants to be on the Bulls
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