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Nothing. The team is the team.
The unintended consequence of Wemby’s Summer League Revenge is that it highlighted the need for us to have a REAL NBA caliber Point Guard for the Starting Lineup and the bench. Tre Jones is a mediocre starting option. Wesley and Branham clearly won’t get the job done. I have No confidence in Graham to do anything but score in buckets. We didn’t trade up for any of the options in what’s looking like a very deep PG draft in ‘23. What do we do to help Wemby succeed this year?
Nothing. The team is the team.
Draft one in next year's lottery.
yes we do....It will help wemby alot getting the ball were hes comfortable and can get easy baskets to get him going
Draft Bronny James next year and his father as well
Wemby is 19, why people think Spurs are contending next year?
only objective is keeping him healthy, acclimation to the NBA, and adding some muscle.
Y'know how the Spurs have all those first rounders coming up? I'm guessing one of those ends up being our lead guard. Unless Vassell vastly improves his playmaking from last year.
Enter Sandman.
As much as him putting on more weight and muscle he still is only 19 and it's not outside of the realm he could still grow more. What could probably happen is him acclimating and adjust to NBA game and schedule while physically conditioning to rigors. The need for more strength/muscle isn't something that is needed immediately.
Rather other facets of his game is worked on. Weight training isn't difficult when you have the staff and facilities of a professional sports team
Also. Finding a solid point guard won't be a difficult task as addressing a front court in today's NBA. Not worried there.
or if the front office see wesley or branham as our future pg,Which would be crazy.
I think we are at worst just one year away from fixing our point guard position... If Charlotte gets better (but they still have to re sign their top free agents, P. J. Washington and Oubre) and Toronto doesn't horribly sink, next draft we're at risk of having three first round picks, two of them possibly being in the lottery and the other one just outside the lottery... Say we got, for example, number 6 (ours) 9 (Raptors) and 17 (Hornets)...wouldn't that be a more than sufficient package to trade for a very good point guard (in case we don't find out the one we like in the draft)? At the moment, for example, considering the back court struggles of Cleveland, Garland is the first one that came to mind...
We got Sochan.
Like others have said, seems likely there'll be a swing on a PG prospect in next years draft. We don't know who'll pop exactly, but Collier, Proctor, Castle, Wagner all seem possible as options, and the Spurs should have, or be able to acquire, a pick in the range to get whoever they think is best.
I'd note though, any young PG (and generally, player) is likely to be bad in year 1. There's normally only 2 or so neutral or better rookies in each year. But a guy with more promise is probably part of the plan.
Few point guards are ready right out of the draft. Even taking one next year, if there's one available at that pick, he probably wouldn't be ready until year 2 or 3 or so, and that's if he's not a bust at all like Suggs or Hayes. That basically means Wemby's entire first contract might be without a good point guard.
The free agent options under the age of 35 the next 2 summers are pretty bad also. No Dejounte.
They missed out on Paul. Couldn't outbid Houston for VanVleet if they had wanted. OKC wouldn't trade Micic, if SA had even wanted him.
If Lillard is available and willing, he might be the best way to go, because getting a top 20 point guard to this team is going to bevery hard. His deal would be over in time for a Wemby extension leaving one summer of Lillard coming off the cap if I'm reading things right.
They should have traded some assets to get Black or Amen. They will need to do that next draft assuming they don’t get high lottery pick with their own pick.
john wall on minimum??
Branham has done a decent job bringing up the ball, but the team has shown no signs of shoehorning him into the point spot like they have with Blake, which was a stupid idea from the start.
When Sochan is running the offense, you guys won't even remember this time.
How about James Harden? Oh wait...he opted in....haha forget it
Tre Jones will be the starter. Graham will be the backup. Wesley will be the 3rd string PG. Branham might get the occasional minutes there as well and sometimes Sochan/Wemby will run the offense. Would I have preferred a second capable PG alongside Tre? Yeah, but this is what we're rolling with.
Wesley will in it, IMO. Basketball is a vertical game as much as it is horizontal. Wemby now has control over anything that goes up in the air, we’ll need players who feast on ground level defensively. Wesley is developing into a two way guard and brings bursts of game changing pace when the offense becomes dull. Yeah, his passing and decision making could improve but the potential he is showing in other areas is worth the patience needed to see him grow.
No one else on the team is as explosive as this.
When the opposing team knows your plays, it’s players like this that break the defense wide open.
The “Wemby needs help” crowd should support Wesley’s growth. Players like Wesley need to be a tad selfish in order to contribute. We saw it with Tony. These guys help relieve the load for other people. Wemby will be happy he doesn’t need to do it all when he has a speedster in Wesley and be a one man fastbreak because he can pick pockets easily.
Tony should mentor Blake
Blake is elite at one thing: he can run fast
That's it. His defense can be good, but was only at the end of the game. Before that his defensive strategy was: Let the defender get by and try a wrap around steal that results in a foul most of the time. His handle is too loose, his decision making is terrible, his finishing sucks. If his midrange jumper is consistent that's something. He should definitely spend more time in the G-League.
Not convinced we wait until next draft. Sure they won’t rush into anything rash. But I think if they feel a quality vet pg is needed they find their man for early Wemby years moving forward.
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