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There's trade back possibilities with them, as many teams will be enamored of one or both. I wouldn't hate trading back to 5,6,7 if we got another nice pick for it. If you get 4 or below, no one is trading up for that.
Nah Portland would be the worst landing spot for him.
There's trade back possibilities with them, as many teams will be enamored of one or both. I wouldn't hate trading back to 5,6,7 if we got another nice pick for it. If you get 4 or below, no one is trading up for that.
Portland would be great. They would move right up in the West if they get him.
They already have a top league player and veterans and they are deeper than the Spurs who are rebuilding from ground zero with not a single all star caliber player on the team.
Outside of Houston the Spurs would be the 2nd worst team for Wemby.
Even Detroit would be better. They have a better core than the Spurs.
Last edited by rascal; 04-10-2023 at 06:15 PM.
And horrible trainers and medical staff.
Why you think that? You personally know the medical staff?
It's just an accident how many star careers have died there.
I can think of lots of scenarios where I’m picking at 7 and I leave pissed off I wasn’t picking at 6 (for example, Cam goes at 6 and I’m left picking a Thompson). We didn’t tank for a season to get Anthony Black or Jarace Walker. We tanked to get our alpha.
However, I’m just not too concerned about the marginal difference in odds that result in picking at 6 or 7 to the point where I care if we finish with the #2 or #3 worst record and I’m loosing my that the Spurs won a few games at the end of the season.
The objective was to not to finish 6th instead of 7th, it was to ensure the highest odds of #1. With that accomplished, there is no longer any need for teeth gnashing. If you get pick 6 or pick 7 - it’s already a ing disaster.
Cam is the only guy I see with alpha potential (of course, we never know when there is a Kawhi, Giannis or Jokic sitting there later). So in that vein, I’m going to be upset at the Lord of Ping Pong (who I assume is Christopher Walken) if we don’t get top 4. However, I won’t be mad at the Spurs. They did their part.
Name them all.
Cam has a powerful game and can work on deficiencies like passing and finding the open man. He looks like Kawhi in his power game to the basket.
Their star player is 33. Wemby is 19. There isn’t a more clear case of ‘not on the right timeline’
Roy, Oden, Walton are their biggest failures
Sam Bowie. Darius Miles.
If Wemby goes there, he won’t last his rookie contract with that medical staff.
All those were years ago.
Wemby doesn't need a timeline. He's going to be good from the start.
Lillard hasn't been able to stay on the floor the past 4 years in a row and only has 3 years of playing a full season.
His first 3.
Zach Collins had crap surgery while there and couldn't gt beyond that dark cloud called Portland till he got here.
Johnny Moore, David Robinson's back, James Silas knee injury,
go back far enough and you can find cases for every team.
This is fun.
Johnny Moore: 520 career games, number retired.
David Robinson: 987 career games, NBA MVP, HOFer, 2x Champion, NBA 50 and 75 teams.
James Silas: 685 games played, 2x ABA all-star, 1x all-ABA first team, number retired.
Brandon Roy: 326 career games, 3x all-star, 1x All-NBA 2nd team, 2x All-NBA 3rd Team
Greg Oden: 105 career games
Bill Walton: 486 career games, NBA finals MVP, NBA MVP, HOFer, 2x Champion, NBA 50 and 75 teams
The point wasn’t that players get hurt or get old, it’s that Blazer’s guys have their career’s cut short. Sure enough, all three of those guys played less games than Moore, who played the fewest of the guys on the Spurs’ list you provided.
For reference, Kawhi played 407 games for the Spurs alone. He’s at 628 and counting overall.
*All these game totals are regular season only.
In fairness Roy and Walton were amazing before their injury luck. I bet Oden would have been decent too. It’s different than drafting poorly like a Thabeet or Olawakandi. Blazers just have crappy luck.
I don’t think anyone is arguing that they weren’t good players, but rather than the Blazer’s medical staff has a long history of really good players career’s being cut short. Maybe it’s just bad luck, or maybe it’s the result of not investing in medical care for their players, idk.
It’s not crap luck. It’s a crap medical staff.
And Dame will be done before he’s old enough to drink.
I agree I think Cam has the highest realistic ceiling past Wemb and maybe Henderson people forget he is still only 18 years old I think Miller will be turning 21 when season starts. They a lot of other guys that I think can make contributions in the early second they still gems to be found in the second.
What exactly have they done since then? They're just lucky Lillard is loyal, and even that's only been enough to make them a treadmill team.
LaMarcus had an okay run, but never got them over the hump and then walked.
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