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If there are no plans to trade any wings, Cedi probably has no interest in staying and collecting DNPs.
Jeremy, Keldon, Barnes will get most wing minutes.
Castle/Devin will also take some wing minutes, if Champagnie stays there are none left.
I can only guess they want the market to burn itself out in case someone might grab them?
If there are no plans to trade any wings, Cedi probably has no interest in staying and collecting DNPs.
Jeremy, Keldon, Barnes will get most wing minutes.
Castle/Devin will also take some wing minutes, if Champagnie stays there are none left.
Yeah, frustrating when it comes to CBA order of operations; having to sign certain players before others can be signed and trying to read the tea leaves about what certain moves (renouncing rights, etc) mean.
Almost like having actual PG play, actual rotations, actual roles helps in a team sport?
FWIW, everyone but Sochan & Bran was much improved after the AS break. Prolly also helps that your 19 y/o stud turned 20 & had 50 games to learn NBA style & speed.
Zach isn’t good, but I’d be surprised if he doesn’t play closer to his mean, think the PG Sochan/Bran & early failure to live up to his K crushed his confidence & production.
Yeah, the fit isn’t good for Cedi or Spurs with Barnes on board, at least if Cedi wants to play. I’d love to have him as depth, but he’d rack up DNPs
There's plenty of minutes for Cedi. We need more than 3 forwards y'all.
He played 17mpg this season, we added Barnes and Castle.
I see the rotation as somewhat of a 1-3-1 situation.
If everyone's healthy, CP3/Tre for point guard position, Wemby/Collins for center.
Other 3 positions are interchangeable between 5 or 6 players.
Devin, Castle, Keldon, Jeremy, Barnes are all way ahead of Cedi.
Branham will surely get some more chances, Champagnie might stay, there's just not enough minutes for Cedi unless CP3 is resting and Castle moves to point guard.
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The San Antonio Spurs have renounced the free agent rights for the following players:
Dominick Barlow
David Duke Jr.
Sandro Mamukelashvili
Cedi Osman
so is that all that had to be done to make room?
So Champs is safe?
I think and Bassey have to be waived. That's a separate move, and the question is why the wait. My amateur guess is they don't want anyone to pick them up, as they're really cheap and good rotation guys, so are waiting as long as they can.
CP3/Castle/Tre
Vassell/Branham/Wesley
Sochan/Champagnie
Barnes/Keldon
Wemby/Collins/Bassey
Would seem to imply this is our minimum 13-man roster, yeah? Don’t get hung up on order or positional spot, just quickly threw it on paper. If so I like it…Champagnie was frustrating as a starter getting 20 mpg but as a guy getting spot minutes as a wing he’s much more appealing.
If Bassey can get healthy and show some of the flashes we’ve seen then he’s a good bench big to give us sorely needed rebounding/rim protection. Or was he officially renounced earlier already?
I guess they're looking for someone to take a flyer on Wesley since we can't cut him to free up cap space. Branham would be in the same boat if I was in charge.
Nice use of two FRPs.
Not too big of a deal because the Spurs can sign any of those players with their ~$8 million exception.
Waiving Bassey would be fine because I doubt anyone picks him up. He could be re-signed to a minimum deal if they want to keep him.
Losing Champagnie would be somewhat unfortunate. He basically has a three-year, $9 million contract left with all years non-guaranteed. That's a lot of cheap years for a decent player.
Can they split the exception? Also, for how many years can they sign them? (ie Could we pull a couple of Champagnie deals?)
Would be pretty annoying to lose Champ and Bassey just to bring in Barnes and a potential pick swap.
Good contracts with control for the next few years and serviceable end of bench players tbh. Mamu and Barlow never got a fair shake from the old man as well.
im not in love with him like some others here are, but im baffled at pop's refusal to play mamu until the end of the season. was it really that important to give Cedi run at PF knowing he's not coming back?
They were #20 and #26. Pretty much the normal outcome for those positions. They were asked to be rotation players as rookies and second years, and weren’t up to the task.
Graham/Mamu both got shafted last season tbh. Graham less so since he was already getting paid. But Mamu would have been a top 3 passer on the team last season
Wouldn't be surprised if he left for a coach that could get him 5-10mins a game to infuse some energy tbh.
IIRC, the room exception can be for up to three years and can be split between multiple players, so yeah could do a couple Champagnie-like deals. It'd be easy to keep any of Osman, Mamu, Barlow, Bassey or Duke if the Spurs want to. It doesn't look like any of them are in line to get much over a minimum deal in this market.
I get it if Bassey's knees are cooked but seems like a good body to keep around considering how thin they are at backup C.
if they played graham and he did well, theres a chance he could have been flipped at the deadline to some team needing bench shooting (and a nice contract situation as well)Graham/Mamu both got shafted last season tbh. Graham less so since he was already getting paid. But Mamu would have been a top 3 passer on the team last season
Wouldn't be surprised if he left for a coach that could get him 5-10mins a game to infuse some energy tbh.
Everyone in the league knows who Devonte Graham is. It's not like they're run by AI computers who aren't aware and get stunned by 'new information' if a player suddenly starts playing again. The "play a guy to trick teams into thinking they're suddenly different" is not an actual thing.
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