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Tbh, I like Ainge.
One of the few GMs who manages to hold against big market teams trying to fleece everyone.
The league needs more GMs like him instead of these idiots that overpay and ruin rosters.
yeah but it does nothing for the spurs just to make ainge sad or whatever. its a silly thing to prioritize. is it the optimal move for the spurs? no, but it makes ainge sad. pass.
Tbh, I like Ainge.
One of the few GMs who manages to hold against big market teams trying to fleece everyone.
The league needs more GMs like him instead of these idiots that overpay and ruin rosters.
This is a really childish view, tbh. And why Ainge failed to get anything done this summer.
I agree but the main factor is the CBA that forces teams to spend and pay (too) early players who aren't there yet
Their objective for this season is to get those top5 odds. Looks like mission will be successful since they're the worst team in the West.
He kept and extended his all-star player on top of that.
My entire premise for all those trade talks was that Markkanen won't stay if they're to tank again, but obviously I was wrong. Extending a 27 year old all-star is better than trading him away.
If they land Flagg, they're already onto something come next season and they've got 8 incoming FRPs over the next 5 years while also having all of their own.
Players like John Collins, Clakrson or Kessler weren't anyone's priority. I'd argue that their value will be higher at the deadline when half the league panics and makes dumb trades under pressure of having a failed season.
Especially baseball GMs (they want guys who can hit the curveball).
TBH, he’s really only good at one thing: holding a fire sale. He put together a team with pretty obvious draft picks that topped out at the Conference finals. Once he left and Brad took over, teams would talk to Bostons FO again, and he could get the crucial missing pieces like KP and Jrue that put them over the top.
Oh, obvsly you don’t trade down JUST to make Ainge sad. You’re getting other assets and players. The sadness is just a bonus.
I think that's harsh, it's not like he wasn't trying.
He got Kyrie and Hayward who had a for all intents and purposes a career-ending injury 5 minutes into the season.
Back then Kyrie wasn't showing any signs of being deranged.
Then he tried with Kemba who was all-NBA the season before.
The team that made '22 finals is more or less his team. They just got Schroeder and brought Horford back.
Those 3 key trades they made were all with selling teams that needed to tank, you could argue that Ainge got all-stars from competing teams, while Stevens I won't say got lucky, but had the option to get players at a huge discount.
His draft record was also great over the past decade.
Smart, Rozier, Brown, Tatum, Timelord, Grant Williams, Pritchard were all his picks.
Every GM makes mistakes and it's easy to say in retrospect some moves should or shouldn't have been made, but he's the creator of that winning team.
That would have been the “you’re not Danny Ainge” discount, which was my point. Teams didn’t want to deal with him any more.
I don't think it played that big of a role.
I just can't accept the argument that he didn't try enough to get them over the top.
2017 Kyrie was considered to be one of the best point guards in the league and arguably the most clutch player, Hayward was a top free agent.
They even made a play for KD, which would've made perfect sense if KD wasn't a spineless coward.
I'd say that teams don't want to deal with him when it comes to trading for his players, but they're fine with dealing him when he's the buyer.
A good team with some nice prospects to watch would be Illinois who has 2 foreign players and a Freshman that I like;
PG/SG - Kasparas Jakucionis - 6’5 - He has some interesting skills looking to see how he handles the European transition
Center - Tomislav Ivisic - 7’1 - He is the twin to brother of Zvonimir Ivisic - I would not mind him in second round
SF - Will Riley - 6’8 - Got some skills let’s see if he can show it against some better compe ion.
I never said that. I said he was such a that no one wanted to deal with him.
As long as he can shoot and has good size and length it doesn't matter to me
Today's basketball is more and more positionless anyway
It is nice to have two picks you can take best player available with first pick and maybe take a potential player with upside at a different position at second or third pick
If the Spurs keep winning they won't be getting a top 10 draft pick with their pick. The east is weak
Need to pull a top 5 pick out of this draft for the best of the future. Can land a top 20 point scorer /starter future all star talent with a top 5 pick. Still need top draft picks on this roster.
I confident the Spurs will be in the lottery; they just need to not be a playoff team. A Eastern conference team that makes the playoffs with a worse record than the spurs, wont supplant them in the lottery.
The East being weak DOES mean that teams like Chicago and Charlotte have a chance of making the playoffs despite a ty record, which is good for the Spurs. Unfortunately, it also improves Atlanta’s chances of having better pick, which is less good for us.
Egor Demin might be the target
i dont know what his defense is like, but a playmaker who can shoot from all over is a natural fit at 3 for us.
Would be disappointing with so many more players with higher upside in the 2025 draft.
You dont get any more upside then a young 6,9 point guard.
It's rascal. He's always looking for a certain 'kind' of player.
I like him as a player, nut is there any news on what Denim thinks of the war?
Egor’s out of reach if ATL doesn’t start playing worse. Spurs pick will be out of the lotto tbh
So are the Spurs just tickling our balls with this .500 record at the moment but eventually going to go tank mode at the latter half of the season, or will they seriously pursue a chance at the play-in or even playoffs depending on how ATL fares?
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