Spurs Draft 1st Round Draft History since Nephew

[heyheymymy]

Luka at 19 would be a disaster if keldon didn't linger till 29 so let's no go sniffing too hard but perhaps there was diligence done and that was a suitable approach for those more in the know

Still an incredible transfer of into gold and wright took us through all that and delivered us out on the other side.

[heyheymymy]

Traded/Trimmed/Waived Garbage:

Forbes
Thad Young
Eubanks

Satoransky
Hernangomez
Dragic
Hutchinson

Danilo
Aminu
Luka
Chriss

Traded high:

Murray
White

Resisted Re-sign:

Walker

RETURN:

JR
Lang
picks that led to Wesley and Branham
Multiple future FRP and SRP

[heyheymymy]

I need help correcting that post above, I suck at tracking all that

Trying to illustrate the cascade but Spurs have been busy lol and there are lots of trades to factor in. Bottom line Wright dumped a LOT of garbage and somehow took a LOT of value back and that is some slick dealing imo. Hope Wright sticks around a little longer based on that.

[CGD]

What a let down Primo became. Such a pity for this small market team to have to just waive a #12 pick 1 yr removed from the draft. Such horrible luck.

Very much so. Then only silver lining is we had 3 FRPs this year, which seems more important now.

[BillMc]

Primo is a bummer, but unless he has a history of this unacceptable behavior before the draft, I'm not sure you can blame the Spurs. Luka was a bust, but with his tools, frankly, that's the sort of "swing for the fences" you need to take now and then.

Really can't complain about the misses.

[CGD]

Some good SRPs in there too: Bert, Tre, Metu

[scott]

Since we're doing the revisionist history, let's see who could've Spurs drafted instead that would've been a better choice.

2013: Allan Crabbe and Mike Musacla? Safe to say that nothing of value was lost.
2014: Obviously Jokic. Other than him Joe Harris, Dinwiddle, Jerami Grant, Dwight Powell and Jordan Clarkson were all second rounders.
2015: Nance Jr, Looney, Cedi Osman, Montrezl Harrell, Richaun Holmes, Josh Richardson, Pat Connaughton, Norman Powell
2016: best player available
2017: best player available
2018: Most of us would still probably take Lonnie. He was the perfect prospect. Athleticism, jumpshot...just can't deliver consistently. Simons and Brunson turned out to be the best players out of that bunch.
2019: Samanic is definitely the PATFO's biggest bust. Could've had Thybulle, Clarke or Poole. But then again, Keldon is better than all of them and it saved the draft.
2020: I'd still take Devin over Haliburton, Maxey or Bane.
2021: Too early to say, but none of them feel like we've missed on an all-star. Sengun is just Kanter 2.0. I like Bones Hyland and Herbert Jones the best out of that bunch.

So yeah, other than Jokic who was missed by everyone, I don't feel like we have lost huge value in the draft.
As already said, it's really hard to say who will develop into a good NBA player when you're not in top10. Even top10 has a lot of busts.

+1 to this. Sure it would be great to have Hyland or Jones (though I'm sure Hyland would be sitting on the end of the bench until he "gets over himself") - but one of the complaints of the Primo pick was that some speculate we could have got him in the 2nd (despite reports to the contrary), so saying you should have drafted the 26 or 35 picks instead at 12 is cherry picking (for the same reason that I don't think you can put too much into not picking Jokic).

[exstatic]

Some good SRPs in there too: Bert, Tre, Metu

We never drafted Bertans, and Metu sucked ass.

[RC_Drunkford]

so you gon say this

I think they’d be surprised at the number of first rounders who don’t get a second contract with their drafting team.

and then say this

... Metu sucked ass.

about a 2nd round pick who's in the league for his 5th season? Make it make sense

[heyheymymy]

I mean Metu DOES suck ass but you're right, 5th season for a 2nd rd pick is objective success albeit lots of that time in development league and then the Kings are basically also a development league team too lol thought they look a bit better since the Hield trade imho