Which of these young players is likely to make it in the NBA and see regular NBA minutes next year and beyond?

[Dejounte]

strong athlete barreling toward the rim could also just be like, larry nance, josh smith, etc. lebron is a wild one to bring up lol

It is, lol, I like to generate notoriety on here… it’s how you gain fans who follow you in every thread and say nothing of substance.

Josh Smith is a good one though.

[LeBowen]

Most likely outcome for Sidy is Stanley Johnson, tbh.

[exstatic]

Most likely outcome for Sidy is Stanley Johnson, tbh.

I think that would be his 90% outcome, not his coin flip likely as not 50% outcome.

[ChumpDumper]

Minix is interesting because he made the jump from NAIA to D1 pretty effortlessly. I know he was nowhere near Sam's percentages his senior year, but I'd like him to take the Sam Hauser route and try to become a volume 3pt shooter in the G-League. His being a tweener won't matter as much if that pans out.

[BackHome]

I like Minix cause he can shoot and just knows where to be on offense and is not a traffic cone on defense. If you want to double Wemby down low you give him a open man who can knock it down and his shot looks like it is always going in.

[tim_duncan_fan]

Sidy is going to play a long time unless he let's himself get fat. He'll at least have Kyle Anderson's career, if he's in shape.

Mamu is the same level of player as Aaron Baynes, as Drew Eubanks, at least. He'll be around. Maybe he'll be with a few teams, but he'll have learned a lot about himself as a Spur and go on to be consistently signed. I like him with us though, especially if he is going to be a 3-point shooter in real life and not only in preseason.

[exstatic]

Sidy is going to play a long time unless he let's himself get fat. He'll at least have Kyle Anderson's career, if he's in shape.

Mamu is the same level of player as Aaron Baynes, as Drew Eubanks. He'll be around. Maybe he'll be with a few teams, but he'll have learned a lot about himself as a Spur and go on to be consistently signed. I like him with us though, especially if he is going to be a 3-point shooter in real life and not only in preseason.

Kyle Anderson was WAY better in his 26 games of gleague minutes than Sidy has been in his two years.

21.3p 8.7r 4.8a 2.0st 1.5blk
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Sidy - 26 games over 2 seasons

9.9p 4.0r 2.8r 1.1st 1.0blk

[z0sa]

Paul
Vassell
Champagne
Sochan
Wemby
Keldon
Tre Jones
Barnes
Collins (barf)

^those are your top 9 players who are obvious locks to have regular minutes in the rotation. I don’t think Pop will play beyond a 9 man rotation. Sure, someone might get injured and someone from the group will play. But those are minutes that are cir stantial. And let’s say they do play over someone who’s not from the top 9… that’s one guy and they probably earned it anyways.

I think it’s off base to say that they’ll have any major impact on the rotation. I think your worries are misplaced, tbh.

The context of this thread is to assess the players who have an outside chance of making the regular rotation on this team by next year (on this team or a different one) and if the expectations were set properly, there’s not a good reason to be depressed about it.

Blake and Malaki 100% will see regular minutes. No doubt, they just had their options picked up. So disagree there.

Certainly CP3 will see plenty of rest and DNPs as well.

[spurs50_]

Minnixx all day.

[Dejounte]

Blake and Malaki 100% will see regular minutes. No doubt, they just had their options picked up. So disagree there.

Certainly CP3 will see plenty of rest and DNPs as well.

In your opinion, who from the top 9 I listed will see reduced minutes in favor of regular minutes from Blake/ Malaki? CP3 is the obvious answer, but is there an obvious drop off in PG play when Castle is likely to pick up the PG duties alongside either of these two?

[z0sa]

In your opinion, who from the top 9 I listed will see reduced minutes in favor of regular minutes from Blake/ Malaki? CP3 is the obvious answer, but is there an obvious drop off in PG play when Castle is likely to pick up the PG duties alongside either of these two?

I'd need to see how you think minutes will be distributed to comment on that, but I think in general, we saw a preview this pre-season. Pop is going to play Tre with CP3, and Wesley/Malaki especially will see minutes with Tre and possible CP3 and Castle as well. He's going positionless basketball, at least in the G/W positions.

In a normal rotation in terms of positions, I'd say you are likely correct, but we have preseason showing us he's going to give Malaki/Wesley/Castle at least a little run, for instance.

[LeBowen]

Wesley and Branham need to show something while Devin is out. These few weeks will be they key for their season.

CP3/Tre
Devin/Castle
Jeremy/Champagnie
Barnes/Keldon
Wemby/Collins

Looks like this will be the 10 man rotation when everyone's healthy.
But Devin is injured, that's where one of Wesley and Branham need to step in and seize the opportunity.
I doubt CP3 plays more than 60 to 65 games, another chance for those two. Would be better for Castle if Branham is the one getting minutes, so he can play point.
Mamu has shown more than some of the rotation wings in pre-season, but he'll still probably get DNPs to start the season.
Wemby will be somewhat load managed again and Collins is injury prone, Bassey will get his chances.

When everyone's healthy I'd personally drop Tre for Mamu and move the bench one position up, but Pop surely won't do it.

[Seventyniner]

Wesley and Branham need to show something while Devin is out. These few weeks will be they key for their season.

CP3/Tre
Devin/Castle
Jeremy/Champagnie
Barnes/Keldon
Wemby/Collins

Looks like this will be the 10 man rotation when everyone's healthy.
But Devin is injured, that's where one of Wesley and Branham need to step in and seize the opportunity.
I doubt CP3 plays more than 60 to 65 games, another chance for those two. Would be better for Castle if Branham is the one getting minutes, so he can play point.
Mamu has shown more than some of the rotation wings in pre-season, but he'll still probably get DNPs to start the season.
Wemby will be somewhat load managed again and Collins is injury prone, Bassey will get his chances.

When everyone's healthy I'd personally drop Tre for Mamu and move the bench one position up, but Pop surely won't do it.

That 10 man rotation makes sense, though I would multiply the forward section by i.

Champ starts at SF backed up by Keldon
Jeremy starts at PF backed up by Barnes