Spurstalk at its finest. Tim Duncan in his prime couldn’t go deep with this ty roster. Everyone is saying that we need to see how our team will fit with Wemby but any idiot can see that we don’t have a squad around him that fits.
Tre Jones doesn’t fit. He can’t shoot and teams will double off of him to attack Wemby. Wemby is turnover prone and definitely will be early due to adjusting to nba speed. Giving teams an easy way to get him off his game and not improving the PG play isn’t “smart GM’ing.” It’s actually the opposite
Vassell fits very well. He can shoot the ball. Pump fake and score off midrange and create for himself when the play goes bad. There’s zero part of Devin’s game that doesn’t fit with Wemby.
Collins fits very well. He will take the brunt of the bodying for Wemby in the paint. He will stretch the floor offensively and on defense he is tough enough to bang in the paint. Wemby will have to help out on the boards but that’s a big duh.
Sochan by default will have to move positions. He is no longer a starting PF. This might just be for 3 years until Wemby gets an NBA body. In which case he will slide back into the PF when Wemby inevitably becomes a center. Or it could be for the rest of his Spurs career. But he is now by all accounts a SF. For the people clamoring that he can run our offense and dribble the ball himself and create for others, guess what, SFs have been known to do that. See Bird, Pippen, Lebron. Now for this to happen, Sochan needs to learn how to shoot the ball. Luckily he is a gym rat. Unluckily, he is injured and I don’t really know how much you can develop your shot with a bum leg.
KJ doesn’t fit with the starters. Easy enough. He can be a 6th man. And the rest of our bench pretty much sucks.
Now with Lillard, we solve the PG problem. It won’t cost us “6 years of our own FRPs” to do it either. Probably 4 and even then they don’t have to be our own. We could do our own but something like our 24 pick, Chi FRP, and Atlanta pick, and a might do it. Lillard is an bonafide all nba player. He would immediately become our best player.
And to the 4 years from now doomsday predictors, at the very least, he will be able to shoot the 3ball the rest of his career. I doubt he will be a 30 ppg guy at age 37, but he will be 20 and 6 very easily. And tbh trading him won’t be the albatross you guys think it will be. Might cost us a protected first at the most.
Now my question is, if we get Dame, can we still outright sign a max free agent? Or do we have to trade for our 3rd star. Bc trading for a 3rd star might be pretty easy tbh. Trade for PG and offer him a 3 year max. Then You have Wemby, Lillard, PG, Sochan, and Collins, plus whatever bench we can piece together.
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Hoping SA doesn’t do it….
