Shams: Spurs Waive Josh Primo

[Mugen]

They literally had a higher pick the year before. Hopefully Vassell is just hurt and not caught up in this, but the importance of the Primo pick is overstated compared to their other picks. He's a miss and legal hassle, but relatively speaking, he isn't a bigger missed opportunity than James Anderson was. Anderson was a high pick admit a sea of low picks. Primo is just one of the many high and mid picks the Spurs have had recently

Hey Chins, you know who would disagree? Your beloved front office since they've been touting him as the future of the organization for the better part of a year now and was the face of the team for every PR event over the summer

[SupremeGuy]

When I say “these people” I mean politically driven s like you who can’t function on a basketball forum without injecting your partisan nonsense.

Most of you people can’t do anything without it involving some precursor of politics. You infect thread and thread with you bull and for the most you’re all ty people.

Tell everyone else, man.

I noticed dumb and replied.

[Half-Lifer]

[blizz]

Some maid in a hotel in Minny is going to think she’s the one?

You KNOW that’s true? All that’s been reported is a spurs employee.

[blizz]

When I say “these people” I mean politically driven s like you who can’t function on a basketball forum without injecting your partisan nonsense.

Most of you people can’t do anything without it involving some precursor of politics. You infect thread and thread with you bull and for the most you’re all ty people.

Riiiight. It’s everyone else. You’re sitting in the edge of your seat for something that might be remotely political so you can espouse your super woke bull and you know it. You then claim the moral high ground. Get off your high horse pal.

[Chinook]

Hey Chins, you know who would disagree? Your beloved front office since they've been touting him as the future of the organization for the better part of a year now and was the face of the team for every PR event over the summer

No, they wouldn't disagree that Primo wasn't their first lottery pick in forever. They also know Vassell was drafted. You were just wrong. Own that and then come back with the emojis.

[Mugen]

No, they wouldn't disagree that Primo wasn't their first lottery pick in forever. They also know Vassell was drafted. You were just wrong. Own that and then come back with the emojis.

"One of their only lottery picks" is wrong?

Chinny baby, the Sniff Crew is going to recover just fine from this. Positioning it as Primo wasn't that good/important anyways and the Spurs are just being their usual classy selves by having a zero tolerance policy is the way to do it tbh.

Don't let ol Mugz get to you now

[ducks]

Listening to nba radio just now. Amin El Hassin? was implying that Primo had these issues going back to some prep school days. That he was kicked out of prep school, possibly for the same reason? That the spurs would have had to have known about that incident if he could find it without much effort.

Time for heads to roll if that is true

The bs line they feed the fans high character

[Mugen]

PATFO getting Paterno'd

[GAustex]

Can’t happen soon enough

[ChumpDumper]

I have no idea why some people are Spurfan in the first place.

[Chinook]

"One of their only lottery picks" is wrong?

Chinny baby, the Sniff Crew is going to recover just fine from this. Positioning it as Primo wasn't that good/important anyways and the Spurs are just being their usual classy selves by having a zero tolerance policy is the way to do it tbh.

Don't let ol Mugz get to you now

I know you don't post here a lot nowadays and so have no idea about my stance on the FO, but even in this current situation, I'm one of the more critical folks of the FO right now. I'm not meming about it because I think a Mavericks-style investigation is about to break out. No one should be shilling for the organization right now.

But in pure basketball terms, people need to recalibrate what missing out on a lottery pick means. The Spurs are going to have plenty of those picks. This isn't their one shot to grab that their of talent anymore. They missed out on Primo at 12, but at 11 and 9 on the years surrounding that pick, they've done well. Part of being bad means cycling through players, moving good ones and busting. That's just a fact of life. Primo is going to get some folks fired, but if he had just sucked, it would still be meh.

[ducks]

I have no idea why some people are Spurfan in the first place.

I became a spurs fan because of David Robinson and his love for his country and his work ethic
I know people who bowled with him and he is a great humble dude. They say it is the complete opposite of Pop.

[ducks]

I have no idea why some people are Spurfan in the first place.

Do yo think after this the spurs do not need to change anything and pretend it never happen.
And hope it will not happened again

[ChumpDumper]

I became a spurs fan because of David Robinson and his love for his country and his work ethic
I know people who bowled with him and he is a great humble dude. They say it is the complete opposite of Pop.

I've got some bad news for you:

David retired about 20 years ago.

[ChumpDumper]

Do yo think after this the spurs do not need to change anything and pretend it never happen.
And hope it will not happened again

I think the Spurs will change things and will not pretend it never happened and will also hope it will not happen again.

[ducks]

I've got some bad news for you:

David retired about 20 years ago.

I am not a bad wagoner fan and just leave after one guy retired.

[ChumpDumper]

I am not a bad wagoner fan and just leave after one guy retired.

What was your team before David Robinson?

[ducks]

What was your team before David Robinson?

I never had a favorite team in the nba before the spurs.

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Fantastic 1st post. We all feel your pain.

[vy65]

I know you don't post here a lot nowadays and so have no idea about my stance on the FO, but even in this current situation, I'm one of the more critical folks of the FO right now. I'm not meming about it because I think a Mavericks-style investigation is about to break out. No one should be shilling for the organization right now.

But in pure basketball terms, people need to recalibrate what missing out on a lottery pick means. The Spurs are going to have plenty of those picks. This isn't their one shot to grab that their of talent anymore. They missed out on Primo at 12, but at 11 and 9 on the years surrounding that pick, they've done well. Part of being bad means cycling through players, moving good ones and busting. That's just a fact of life. Primo is going to get some folks fired, but if he had just sucked, it would still be meh.

That's totally fine, but what you're missing is the Spurs lauding this guy as the franchise and literally making him a poster boy for the organization only to do a 180 and claim "meh, he's a whiff." Do you not see how disingenuous that seems?

[BacktoBasics]

Riiiight. It’s everyone else. You’re sitting in the edge of your seat for something that might be remotely political so you can espouse your super woke bull and you know it. You then claim the moral high ground. Get off your high horse pal.

No. I’ll keep up here on my perch judging pieces of like you.

[cjw]

Luka was the 19th pick guys. The chances of those picks busting are really high statistically. Not an apples to apples comp.

In 2021, sure I get the Sengun takes, but people are getting a little carried away too (4 more teams passed on him after us too). His best case is Vuc, but like Vuc today he’ll struggle to carve out a role in the modern nba.

Sengun is the type of player that I do not want to overpay on a second contract. Nice role player, but bigs like him are not people you swing at.

Not saying he’s a terrible pick in the mid first. But you can only put one of his type on court at a time, and that’s limiting.

[Chinook]

That's totally fine, but what you're missing is the Spurs lauding this guy as the franchise and literally making him a poster boy for the organization only to do a 180 and claim "meh, he's a whiff." Do you not see how disingenuous that seems?

I'm not missing that. We know the Spurs like Primo and had high hopes for him. But he was a whiff, the Spurs have more picks and we all can move on in a basketball sense.

[K...]

so a year after the spurs ace 3 FRP people are going HAM about an older set of picks that were both taken as raw prospects? We know some people want to only draft undersized euro centers and low ceiling 3nD SF. Even with big wiffs the spurs are still ahead with extra picks for years to come. if anything primo is water under the bridge like nephew once he decided to leave. Also James anderson was an ace pick who broke their foot, which led to danny green and kawhi. People don't realize that it's not a zero sum game. You don't win by showing up with the highest drafted picks, you play actual games. Yeah primo was a mild wiff, then a massive wiff, but a real nothing burger in regards to depth (assuming westley or someone can play backup.