The specter of trading another guard in nearly the exact point of injury history and development arc to Derrick White should haunt you, as well.
WTF? That dude passed away? Damn I really haven't been stopping by here regularly in the last few years. The . Or is it a joke? lol
The specter of trading another guard in nearly the exact point of injury history and development arc to Derrick White should haunt you, as well.
It’s turning into a meme, because while he still does the grades, he doesn’t do the thread, leaving that to forum posters to start.
Spurs Derrick White was a multi-dimensional player unlike Dev. White had defense, point guard skills, a passable three ball with high basketball IQ. Dev's a good shooter and not much else.
Not really seeing the similarities between Devin and Derrick's developmental arcs, but interested in hearing the case.
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Last edited by scott; 01-13-2025 at 08:24 PM.
Spurs Derrick White didn’t go through two tanking years. Devin Vassell was the only ing player who showed up for the 2022 play in game. DJ, coming off his All Dtar appearance, the bed.
He’s injured too much. He can’t shoot. He needs to go. All of those things were said about Derrick White as a Spur, and a lot of them should sound familiar. Devin Vassell is currently about a year older than Derrick was on the day DW was drafted.
White was universally loved. I don’t know what you’re talking about. People were clamoring for him to start. Trading him made sense given where the spurs were, but it had nothing to do with White’s performance as a player. Devin is the polar opposite of White. All potential, and little production to show for it (so far)
No one is universally loved on this site, not even Wemby, who is being called lazy 100 or so games into his career.
Dev was also given underserved minutes and touches over those tank years whereas Derrick had to earn his minutes on decent treadmill teams.
These are better comps to former Spurs
Devyn Forsell
no. d white was getting slaughtered in here for his shooting woes, which were pretty bad in his last season here.
Stop me if you’ve heard this before: he had just come off foot surgery…
pop, manu, TP, danny green, just to name a few, were regularly roasted on this site. duncan was one of the few players who, at least from my memory, didn't get too much heat.
They were true. Put Vassell as the accepted 5th best player on the floor and the Spurs are looking pretty good.
God I love that show.
I don't think about it at all
-13 . I'm telling you his floor is Forbes and ceiling Udrih
Been waiting for someone to chime in with "SaMpLe SiZe!!!"
wow, tough to argue with that, 637 mins aint exactly nothin either
I legit
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Posted in another thread, but thought it would be worth do enting here for posterity as well:
Through 37 games:
- The Spurs are 14 net points better with Wemby on the court than with him off (-5.0 ON / -9.3 OFF)
- The Spurs are 14 net points worse with Vassell on the court than with him off (+3.9 OFF / -9.4 ON)
You might be asking: "well, how about how these two guys interact with each other? Certainly there is some overlap there, right?" Great question, I'm glad you asked.
- When Wemby is on the court without Vassell, the Spurs have a +10.2 NETRTG
- When Wemby is on the court with Vassell, the Spurs have a -4.5 NETRTG, which is only slightly better than...
- When Wemby and Vassell are both off the court, the Spurs have a -5.3 NETRTG, which is way better than...
- When Vassell is on the court without Wemby, the Spurs have a -16.3 NETRTG
Just killing all of them with facts. Anything else is just feelings or baseless projections.
I know he’s never played good defense before, but he was hurt earlier. Just give him more time
5 years isn’t enough time to really say he’s bad.
He’s only struggling bc he has to adjust his game due to Wemby
And whatever useless drivel of excuses are being spouted. Start Champ. Start Castle. Bench Sochan and bench Vassell and we will make the playoffs this year
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