I wouldn't. Hopefully they don't target a starting C (would limit rotational flexibility), especially one with poor feel, who can't protect the rim, defend in space or space the floor (low volume and slow release = no one guards him from 3), like Valanciunas. He'll also be 30-31 and in a contract season.
Can't stand Lowry and like Van Vleet, don't ever want to see him in this uniform. Ref baiting clown, who despite the national media Craptors fanboy hype, is on his last legs.
I don't assume its a given that Valanciunas is a starter. I do like Lowry on this team very much for a year. Good locker room guy that can run an offense and is fine coming off the bench. It would raise our floor. Now Van Fleet i dont really want, even though he's the better player currently. I'm not interest in paying $30M/yr + long-term for what he brings.
id rather absorb an expiring Lowry who can give us one solid year than go and sign Vanvleet coming off the season he just had
Whether literal or not, Valanciunas is a minimum 20 mpg player. He'd also probably pout with a reduced role on a team of this caliber.
Lowry is moody, prickly and "fine coming off the bench" for a pseudo contender. He'd probably try to work out a buyout if traded here.
Val is looking for his next contract. I'm sure he'd want to be out there playing as much as possible. Lowry is near the end of his career.
They have Collins, Bassey and Mamu as their center depth. I'd look to add another cheap veteran, but spending anymore cap space on the position would be foolish.
Getting a 3-and-D wing, another combo forward, or retaining KBD (on a team friendly deal) are all bigger priorities.
Obviously, outside of either retaining or replacing Tre Jones.
Water is also wet.
bediako will make the team as the starting center.......he was the anchor of the best defense in college basketball.......when he got injured alabama became pedestrian on defense.... no need to sign a free agent
Point?
I have been assuming that the Spurs' pursuit of Reid and Valanciunas was to have one of them start at C, and that they would pursue Lowry with the intent of starting him at PG. But I could be wrong.
WTF is up with RC and the Spurs' obsession with Valenciunas?
Nobody needs an archaic center. Would much rather pay to bring Jak back.
Real talk: what percent chance do you give to Poeltl being back with the team at the start of the season?
Can’t read the Raptors at all!
Zero.
It would be very bad form to resign him at this point. Word is he's going to extend with them anyway.
I hear you, just wonder what happens is Siakam is moved. Does that mean they’re rebuilding? In any case it seems good for the Spurs who own their pick!
can get 1 on an expiring deal. would need to give the other one an expensive 4 year deal
Maybe I’m reading too much into it, but they gave Sidy No. 25. I think of Jak was under serious contention they’d hve kept the number available.
Given RC's obsession with him, I'd assume it's more than a one year rental if they're targeting him specifically.
But if it is just a one year rental why not get that from a more modern center? Val's style of play is so useless.
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Where's this talk of obsession coming from?
Obviously if a topic is being discussed a lot in this forum, it must mean we are manifesting the thoughts of the Spurs’ front office. It’s spiritual.
The Spurs have been linked to Val multiple times going back to his draft in 2011. The team was supposedly entertaining trading Parker to Toronto for him. That was the rumor Tony called a smokescreen for the Spurs trying to use Hill to draft Kawhi. I imagine the Spurs tried to get Val in the Leonard trade and were rebuffed. Jonas is one of a long (long) line of bigs draft pundits crowned as "The Next Duncan". How much the Spurs coveted him, we don't know. But they've certainly had rumors floating around concerning him.
Getting Big Daddy Val would at least mean 4 less occasions per year of him bending us over.
Hilarious tidbit about Mamu at the Wemby presser. We have a guy who isn’t under contract, doesn’t know the status of anything… but it, he’s gonna show up to see the Wemby. Love it.
This board has an obsession with any player who could possibly be uncir cised. No joke.
The eternal struggle.
Who is Bediako
Didn't realize Bassey is lowest paid player in nba...spurs set another record! I make more than a nba player!
7'0 21 yrs old, Brandon Miller's teammate. He anchored Alabama's defense. He signed a one-year deal with the Spurs. I'm curious to see him in the Summer league.
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