He needs a floater, a middie, and to stay around 36% on threes and he'll be KILLER.
I’m smart enough to know at least these minutes Castle is getting are huge for his growth.
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This wonderful song is dedicated to our Fearless Prince, Stephon Castle >>>>>>>
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The point about Castle is not so much what he is lacking; it's his at ude and his posture. You know in an instant, this kid is special; and will only gets better as time progresses
That last dunk was filthy!
Loving Wesley's reaction on the bench.
This dude has next level awareness and decisiveness. Like before he even touches the ball he knows what he wants to do. And on one of those transition plays, he's running the other way before we even get the steal. Just incredible, and the teams that drafted in front of us were dumbfoundingly stupid tbh.
Really fair analysis of Castle here.
When you hear draft gurus and basketball scouts talk about processing speed, this is it. The ability to see changing cir stances extremely fast. In the NBA those microseconds are huge.
Very impressed with Castle so far this season, has exceeded my expectations.
Still, I don't know if he has the foot speed nor the shooting ability to become the lead guard long term. I don't think having him on the roster should preclude the Spurs from drafting a true PG in next year's draft if that's who the BPA is when it's their turn.
I'm not too concerned about the footspeed. He seems to be able to get to the interior with a screen. The shooting definitely needs to improve though. It isn't lost on me that he really doesn't want to shoot unless he is damn-near standing under the backboard and that is getting his shot blocked a lot.
Once he mixes in a mid-range jumper, he should be more than solid, and if he can keep his 3-point clip to 36% he should be very formidable, even if he isn't Tony Parker fast.
Luka isn’t fast. SGA isn’t fast.
Castle has problems getting to his spots.
If anything I want Castle to rebound more. At his size he can rim run and attack the basket. Once he gets even stronger it would be a freighter coming down with speed.
Castle will never be Tony Parker fast but he doesn't need to be in order to be really good.
Blake Wesley is Tony Parker fast, if not even a bit faster, but his finishing ability and footwork are well below average while Tony's were elite.
Castle is not fast enough to turn the corner, but that doesn't matter cause he's shifty and strong. What he needs is a reliable jumpshot so teams have to go over the screen. That will open up the lanes for him. He will get there, no doubt.
I think the point was that usually a high number of TOs correlates to a negative differential. Spurs overcame that with 41.3% from 3 though. But, a -8 team TO differential is not usually a good way to win games. We did much better against Utah. OKC is a team that will create lots of TOs though, nothing to be ashamed about and I'm sure Castle will grow from that. CP3 had 4 TOs himself against OKC. That's really just impressive from OKC's perspective.
I know we been laughing at Reed but he's in a bad situation buried on a deep talented team. If spurs drafted him he'd be getting same usage as Castle so that's the comparison, if on spurs would he provide a greater impact than castle
I doubt that. Sheppard is nowhere near Castle defensively
Ok…look at you with a solid take!
Sheppard is better at exactly one thing in my limited opinion: shooting. Everything else, I'd take Castle. Even if the minutes/roles had parity, I'd still take Castle. Sheppard is clearly raw, again JMO but after multiple Houston outings I think it's a pretty safe b et (right now).
No he wouldn't have the same impact. Reed is much more limited than Castle in his all around game.
I think castle will get better at shooting we already seen improvement which means he is working on his shot
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