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Rupert @ 43
Rupert going the pick is even better.
God I hope they were targeting him at 44, please god let that have been the case
Rupert @ 43
Y‘all don’t get it. We are stacking up on these 2nd rounders so we can sell them for cash. 20 seconds for 2-4 million each is a lot of bread
LOOOOOOOOOOL
All I can say is thank ing god they won the lottery
thats like, the worst reason to trade a pick the way we did. its actually the exact reason we should have traded up in the draft
Their guards suck, they're all probably better than anything they had. The problem isn't that they're all guards, it's that they're all COMBO guards with similar physical profile. Still, it makes sense to draft them all and have them sort it out, keep the best of the bunch, dump the rest. If one of them pans out it's a win.
You only have 15 roster spots plus your two way slots. They have a lot of cap space and already have a ton of young guys (plus in hindsight still got Cissoko). I’d rather those back end spots be filled by vets that young guys can benefit from, and have seconds further in the future when (hopefully) the team is competing and may be pushing up against the tax and needs cheap back end of roster guys. Space out the development, and hoard future assets. They can be useful in trades too.
In a night where they got a generational talent, these ers still found a way to leave the fanbase with a sour taste. Quite the feat, tbh. Imagine Wemby + an exciting guard prospect like Colby Jones or Bailey.
They have all kinds of cap flexibility, a filthy stock of draft capital, and just drafted the best prospect of the last 20 years. Naturally some old men here are pissed off. All in all a good night.
These mofos better pray for nobody picked from 33 to 43 to amount to anything, tbh.
Feel like Cissoko is better than Rupert as a pickup for the Spurs at this time. Rupert slots more into where Wesley already is. Their skillsets are similar if Rupert is even less on the offensive side, while Cissoko is more of a big, powerful SG/wing.
Problem is going 29-53 isn't generally bad enough to get a second star, like the way OKC got Durant-Westy-Harden three years in a row.
You have to be picking top 3 or 4 multiple years in a row and you can't afford to fall out the way the Pistons did. Also this year's draft was very good to elite but some years are dog in the NBA. What if next year's draft ends up being the Anthony Bennett show draft?
Not trying to be a smart ass, but what good has stockpiling worthless 2nd round picks done for the Spurs since we started bogarting them?
Seconds arent the pieces of trades that make good trades happen and we don't have the pieces to send out with those picks to do us any favors unless the front office is re ed and trades away KJ.
At this point, not adding some veteran fillers to lead and mentor the youngsters would be insane. Plenty of good hands out there to be had on 1-2 years and the Spurs and the worst part of the fanbase don't seem to want to compete despite having the most hyped prospect people are know making him sound like he's a long-term project, which is ridiculous.
The NBA is filled with nothing but pussies. Pussies who can't play a full season because they're physically incapable of, and the Spurs are going to load manage the 1st overall pick who is supposed to be a generational talent, but they won't put him to the grinder like a top pick should.
Just sad and pathetic how far the level of professional athletics drop. And the youngsters swear today's guys would wax yesterday's plumbers, yet the best of the best today can't even play 75% of the season. The NBA deserves to fail.
Spot on. Should have traded up into pick #29 and took a stab at somebody for a long rookie contract. But no. Why do something like that? And repeat quote.
The Bouknight McGowens era never took off I guess lol
I will trade 18 2RPs for one late first... or a bag of chips
Spurs have been rolling out of extraneous second round picks the past two drafts and kicking the can seems to work okay. Obvs not ideal but it's not a total waste.
The risk of missing someone in hindsight is just the price you pay and I look at the horde of picks like insurance so trading away isn't a waste like paying your insurance premium isn't a waste. It's the cost to being in a position to decide you want a player and being able to take them.
Rather have and not need than need and not have.
It's nice to have options and any value that falls to the wayside is just the cost of doing business and can be mostly mitigated by good scouting. If there was a diamond in the rough I trust Spurs FO to know it and use the pick to select instead of trading off.
Some people are pissed or surprised because:
1. ST narratives is not spurs plans. And ST excitement is not spurs one. Lots of fantasy and excessive enthusiasm about this draft. We know many of these kids wo'nt make it or will be random rotation guys but suddenly from 1 to 33, everyone is a great prospect here (and most fan forums)...
2. Some people were obsesseb and exhilarated about this draft, as if fWemby was makng everybody else better, annd because spurs got him and have a lot of assets, they should have run for more independently of their needs and situation
3. Tjhe precisely didn't identofy those needs and situation. Spurs need proven talent and experience now around Victor, not another #33 propsect who have statiscally more chances to fail than succeed... We were excited about Wesley last year, steal of the draft, he might not be an NBA player and they're better try and keep on developing him, instead of starting back from scratch with another one... LOTS of young talent to develop already in this team... this isn't a yanking year anymore, Victor WANTS TO WIN asap and spurs understand that...
4. They didn't listen to Pop saying last night that they were wery happy with the current you guys who had a great summer so far keeping on developing.
Every draft is the same, fans all over the NBa are fantasizing too much about these kids... 2/3 will just end up as decent to unproductive players players.
Damn, that one minute limit to edit is brutal. Gonna check your posts more thoroughly before posting.
It sells for like 1-2m each. Spurs are gonna be rich
Not really. You're not trading for a pick, you're trading for a player.
I'd just like to add, F you, Sam Presti, and simultaneously Bravo. I think that's his best pick in at least 5 years.
These type of things…I do trust the Spurs front office. They obviously didn’t have what they wanted on the board and decided to only keep 44. I’m just glad they didn’t sell it for cash, I hate when teams do that.
Because they traded away the 33rd pick in the 2023 draft? LolAll I can say is thank ing god they won the lottery
I posted in another thread... I don't think it's the Spurs that had a deal for the Orlando (11).
- Orlando picked Jett Howard, a player pretty much universally mocked later.
- If the Spurs had a deal for 11, then they could have still gone for a point guard type. Yes, definitely Cason could have been their only choice.
- My feeling is that it's a team like Utah that wanted to move up several slots. They would move from Utah (16). When OKC jumped over to 10, Utah decided to stay put and pick their second choice, who was Keyonte George. Orlando just picked the guy they'd already mapped out for them at 16 with the 11. Jett Howard.
- I think this was a middling draft for OKC. They were rumored to go hard into the top 10 and they farted out a two pick jump. Of course it wasn't for anything, just taking on Bertans. Wallace could be great, just unsure. Their big change is starting to play Chet Holmgren.
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