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Please do tell which point guards and offensive creators Spurs missed out on in free agency?
Realistically what do you expect the defensive and offensive improvements to be, get up to middle of the pack league average? That's a big jump. Do you also expect other young teams to improve in Detroit and Houston and OK City and Orlando? Just because a team is young doesn't necessarily mean there will be a huge improvement of that team.
Yes, some improvement can be expected but when you are bottom of the barrel league, bad both offensively and defensively only a homer will think you can run back the same team only adding Wemby and expect a top level league performance.
Wemby will help the overall team performance next year but he can't make all the other players better. The spurs still need to add shooting and a better starting PG and 2nd star level player/offensive creator/ go to dynamic scorer to make a big jump as a team.
Wemby couldn't even win the French league championship with another NBA top ten lottery pick on his team. He'll have tough nights were he'll struggle and the Spurs are still going to manage his minutes. Wemby will be one of the best players in the league someday but he's still going to need a better roster behind him than what the Spurs currently have.
Please do tell which point guards and offensive creators Spurs missed out on in free agency?
I'm not talking about Wemby.
Wemby was a lucky gift. It's what the Spurs didn't do to get another player.
They missed out on draft night.
You would've traded like three first rounders to get into top10? Good for you, that's why you're in here with me talking hypothetical and someone else is getting paid to be a GM.
There were numerous reports that teams tried to trade up and asking prices were really high.
And all the point guards in this draft have the same weakness - lack of range and consistency from three. The exact thing Spurs want to avoid.
Personally I'd have loved for them to pick up Bufkin or Cam Whitmore, but supposedly several teams tried and didn't get any traction (Indiana and Houston publicly said so), so it wasn't so easy to pull off this time around. In fact no pick got traded until 24, except for a couple swaps between 7/8 and 10/12. What kind of deal did you have in mind?
who would expect top level league performance in any player acquisition scenario this season?
What plan of yours would've gotten that?
Bolded points.
1. I’m pretty sure our defense can’t be so bad now with an actual defensive anchor. We shouldn’t have even been as terrible as we were with good defenders in Sochan, Vassel, and earlier on, Poodle. For some inexplocable reason, we sucked. Gotta think it has to be by design, no? We literally left shooters open for 3 when our defensive philosophy has always been to guard the 3 and funnel people into our bigs. It was why we were routinely killed by mid-range shooters in the glory days.
2. I’m not concerned about their improvements in the short term because I’m not trying to compete with them so much as I’m looking forward to seeing our young players develop. Say what you will about our FO, but we actually try to develop players, and there’s no reason to think our core won’t improve. The only recent picks that flamed out were Samanic, Primo, and Lonnie. But to answer your question, I like what Orlando and OKC are building. Should be interesting and I wouldn’t be surprised if the current bottom 5 of the league end up as perennial playoffs contenders in 4-5 years. The above teams weren’t built in a single year, though, which is why I’m not too concerned. We have time and we can draft and sign more players once we know what Wemby can do and how to build around him.
3. I never claimed to expect this team be a top level team this coming season. On the contrary, I’m of the opinion that we’ll be a lottery team next year. And I’m ok with that because that would mean we can get another good pick.
4. I think the last point bolded is a bit funny. I honestly think it was really because of Wemby’s hyping that Bilal got drafted where he was drafted. He was really raw and felt like a huge reach. Instead of saying Wemby failed to win a championship, we should instead try to see it on another perspective: he won all the individual awards he could get, and managed to drag a bad team (that lost its two point guards) to the finals.
I think it’s reasonable to give them two more years to build a roster that features everything you say the need. It’s a tall task for a single offseason, and even if they cashed in future assets at 50 cents on the dollar to try to do it, Wemby would be too raw for them really to take advantage and contend.
Is it make any sense that Spurs would take Hero in a potential Lillard trade like what the rumour is saying? After refusing to sign Reaves to 20mill they really gonna agree to take Hero with his over 30mil contract???
I don’t anticipate it but I’d actually love Herro on the spurs, he’s a dog when healthy. Im sure Brooklyn jumps on the opportunity tho
I can only think of two or three players more cringier than Herro’s off the court personality.
Oklahoma City is acquiring Brooklyn guard Patty Mills as part of a broader deal through Houston, sources tell ESPN. The Thunder will receive draft compensation to take on Mills’ $6.8M expiring deal.
Patty being passed around like a blunt right now. Should still be in San Antonio tbh. Would gladly have given up a couple 2nd Rounders for him if we didn’t already have Devonte Graham on the roster.
Sounds like OKC is receiving picks to take him. With the FO’s obsession with SRPs I’m shocked we didn’t get involved
I wonder if the Rockets completely ed this up and got Mills for assets and then had to give him away for assets.
That’s pure speculation. You don’t know what offers were on the table and you’re completely discounting the fact that they still have all the same flexibility and assets today that they had then.
With that said I wouldn’t have had a problem if they overpaid with picks to move back into the first round but I’m also not gonna overreact like you’re doing.
We’ve got a few years and a ton of picks before we need to start acting like we’ve missed opportunities.
Either the Spurs have something else cooking or they weren't allowed into this by the Rockets.Sounds like OKC is receiving picks to take him. With the FO’s obsession with SRPs I’m shocked we didn’t get involved
Gradey approved.
Herro for Spurs would make some sense if they think he can play PG for them.
I found his contract ($120M/4 years) horrible but when you see that VanVleet, who is 6 years older, got $130M/3 years, it looks like a bargain...
That’s kinda what I’m thinking, a closing lineup of
Wemby, Sochan, KJ, Dev, Herro would be insane
The contract isn’t what’s offputting for me. He’s kind of a dumbass, and not very efficient from an advanced stats viewpoint.
Lol that’s like saying the 250 pound fatass at Walmart looked horrible until you saw my 700 pound life and now it’s not so bad.
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