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He would have been winning rings anywhere else, like he did when he left us, tbh.
I hope you take this as a learning experience on what a championship level player looks like, tbh.
Those Dejounte chips are looking mighty tasty right now
He would have been winning rings anywhere else, like he did when he left us, tbh.
I hope you take this as a learning experience on what a championship level player looks like, tbh.
I think these last six years have demonstrated why Pop was so down on Green. And yes, before anyone tries to fluff it up by saying "He wasn't down on him. He was trying to motivate him," no. Pop didn't bench Green for any player with a pulse because he was playing the long game. I used to buy into that idea, but trading Green and then re-signing Belinelli showed the truth of it. Pop never wanted Green to be a starter. Pop's vision of what a two-guard should be required that player to be a ball-handler driver, and he really didn't care much if he was a shooter. Don't get me wrong -- he understood the 2010's concept of spacing. But it's also clear that his ideal offense was more penetration and kicking out than tossing up threes.
We've seen the Spurs basically avoid Green-like players since Danny was traded. The Spurs bring in buttershot after buttershot and only supplement them with no-D shooters like Forbes. The common theme among those guys is that they all had the drive-and-kick element in their theoretical games. d-league development has consistently centered around prospects operating as primary ball-handlers. I'm not going to bore folks by going on and on about how nobody ever learns to be a three-and-D player as their primary focus. It's crazy, because as limited as Danny was, the team has missed him since the first game they played without him. This year, the Spurs desperately need a three-and-D wing to start for them. But we see with Castle, Nunez and Ingram that the listing of "tall ball-handler, no shooting necessary" remains high on the team's job board.
So Pop may have been trying to "tough love" Green. He may have designated him the team's whipping boy. But all of that is a side show to the bigger idea that Green was anathema to the "positionless" vision Pop's had since at least 2003. Decades later, and Pop still hasn't accepted that's not the future of the league.
ehh
green starter just about every game he played in his last 6 seasons with the spurs. Wasn’t playing 30+ minutes a night but also had Manu as a reserve behind him at his position
forbes starting only became a thing after green left
DG finally retiring. One of my fav role players of all time tbh.
one rebound away from being named Finals MVP
had a lot of haters on this forum but green was a vital cog.
Now that the dust has settled, what did LDN mean?
I liked Danny for us a lot. He brought defense back to this team in a time we had stopped bothering with it, and Keith Bogans was the centerpiece.
Someone (Zach Lowe?) once described Green's transition defense as the greatest random NBA talent ever or something (sorry, paraphrasing from memory here).
What a great carreer Danny Green had considering how it started out!
I'll never get over '17 and s bag Zaza.
I sometimes regret it even more than '13 because in those finals we at least got the chance to play it out.
Taking down '17 Warriors would easily be the greatest feat in NBA history.
DJ/Danny/Juice/nephew was arguably the greatest perimeter defense lineup ever.
God I can’t believe this era was 10 years ago. I still remember Danny being the younger guy with Kawhi on the team.
Wing Stopbefore Kawhi ed out.
Danny was really not the young guy at that point. He was drafted in 2009 when LeBron was still in Cleveland the first time, and he was a 4 year college player, drafted at 22. He was 24 when Kawhi was drafted in 2011 at 19.God I can’t believe this era was 10 years ago. I still remember Danny being the younger guy with Kawhi on the team.
Wing Stop
go to page one of this thread and read the OP
Danny Green defined and perfected the 3&D archetype better than anyone before or since.
If we get one more rebound his 2013 Finals performance goes down in history as one of the greatest of all time.
i still can't believe they are keeping him open.
I’m talking young in terms of experience, specifically 2012. He was basically new to the team like Kawhi was. We knew Kawhi was gonna be special but Danny surprised us all that year as well. It was a nice sight from the days of starting a washed Finley or scrubs like Mason or Bogans.
One of my favorite Spurs of all time too. Up there with Bruce and Boris for me in terms of favorite Spurs role players.
Had he never developed here, they would have been stuck with a broken James Anderson or having to start Manu again.
Pretty cool that he won 2 more times (back to back too) even though it was with that snake Kawhi and the lakers.
Also for old times sake Danny “#lolholocaust.
The Green Ranger! What a career! One of the greatest transition defenders of all time!
He was so good at stopping easy transition baskets.
So many times I’ve seen Danny stop 2-1 or even 3-1 fastbreaks by himself. That man was something else, he really lived up to the moniker IcyHot.
What a career. On of the best 3&D player. He was the glue player for many champioship roster
The icy hot moniker was because for a 40% 3 point shooter, he never went 2-5. It always seemed that it was 4-5, followed the next game by 0-5, aggregating to 40% over the span.
A lot of fans took him for granted and just assumed he was a league-average, dime-a-dozen player. It's a shame Embiid killed his career. I hope the Spurs offer Green a job doing whatever he wants to do, whether it's coach, front office or media. He's an all-tome Spur, despite Pop being unable to figure out if he or Belinelli were better.
What's funny is that back in the day I did an analysis to show he was actually more consistent than Bowen despite their reputations. I think now that we see more threes taken every game, we can get a better idea for how wide the range actually is.
Ugh my frustrations back then trying to tell people that Green was easily better than Belinelli. Green got unfair hate for how he performed against OKC in 2012 and then how he was shut down in Games 6 and 7 of the 2013 Finals. Pop had him on a short leash during that time too.
2014-2015 Danny was honestly a top 3 player on the Spurs. He was very underrated.
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