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No need to tank
As we will lose most of our games anyway even if we try
Why would we shud down fox? We pay his ass. He plays
Who cares about cp3?
Who cares who plays c?
I don't follow all the details of all our players, tbh.barnes is under contract for next season, there's no world where he gets waived
Ok, just keep Barnes, maybe rest him more than usual.
No need to tank
As we will lose most of our games anyway even if we try
Why would we shud down fox? We pay his ass. He plays
Who cares about cp3?
Who cares who plays c?
Kind of an outside shot, but I think there is a semi-realistic shot to get down to the 5th lottery seed, but getting to 7/8 range is definitely within reach.
I think they will likely at least get Fox one home game... would be an extra kick in the nuts for them to not even get to see our star acquisition.
After that, it's just full tank mode.
Unfortunately, this robs us of the opportunity to see Devin in a role that better suits him going forward (especially if/when Fox gets shut down). He'll be back into #1/#2 scorer mode. Maybe this is an opportunity for him and Keldon to increase their trade value at least.
this is depressing.
Thank you for bringing at least some semblance of hope to this dire morning
Googling the nearest bridge tbh
I totally forgot Keldon
If CP3 wants to get waived would he go back to Suns? they are struggling right now it would seem like the ideal fit. He's better than Tyus Jones. I agree since we will suck the rest of the season without Victor have Fox get surgery.
I'd go ahead and get D. Fox his surgery, I don't see any upside to playing him the rest of this season. Might as well maximize recovery time before the start of the next one.
As for the rest of the guys, you still try to win, you still try to have opportunities to play crunchtime basketball... And the result is probably going to be the same as actively tanking because this simply wouldn't be an NBA level team without Fox+Wemby.
This could all bode well for the Spurs in the big picture, though, it sucks right now.
Hopefully, Wemby comes back fully rested and 100+% after not playing euro league ball.
Get Fox fixed up soon and draft another strong player or TWO!
I wonder if Paul would want to stick around for another season? They probably waive him, but, I could see it going either way.
I bet he'd go to one of the LA franchises to be close to his family if waived. Ending his career with the Clippers would be poetic.
Yeah, shutting down Fox and buying CP3 out would be ideal. But knowing the front office, we'll have to ask CP3 first if he's cool with that, and if not, we'll most likely stay the course.
Anything to stop my tears from flowingThank you for bringing at least some semblance of hope to this dire morning
Toxic positivity
I don't really see the upside of buying out CP3 unless he specifically asks for it. If he's happy here, let his BBIQ continue to rub off on the rest of the guys. He's the best coach we have.
Do they just say F it and go small but athletic and try to out run teams?
paul-Fox-Dev-castle-Sochan/Barnes as starting 5. We are already horrible at rebounding anyways
Will this generate a hardship exemption and another roster spot?
Mo Bamba might not have made a lot of sense before, but he might now. Give a former top draft pick a last chance to salvage his career kind of move. At least there is upside to that. There is no long-term upside to Bigmac Bimbo. Might as well just be Gorgi Dieng out there.
Thinking optimistically, that lineup could set an NBA record... the Nets only had 17 rebounds against the Thunder in 2014. We could easily beat that if we sit Bassey and try-hard Keldon.
iirc hardship exemption gives you some cap relief to go sign a replacement but doenst actually grant a roster spot
Oh bummer, I thought it was the opposite. I saw Portis is suspended for 25 games and after 5 games it will open a roster spot for MIL. Can we also suspend Wemby for the rest of the season?
i could be wrong. anyway not like opening up a roster spot would be that challengingOh bummer, I thought it was the opposite. I saw Portis is suspended for 25 games and after 5 games it will open a roster spot for MIL. Can we also suspend Wemby for the rest of the season?
He specifically set up his contract so he could be waived and sign with a contender if went bad. And now it has while CP3 has shown he can still play at a high level. If he still wants to be here and try to make a run next year when Victor is back then yeah I'm keeping him but he didn't sign here to be a coach so I don't see him staying for the rest of the season if he isn't coming back again next year.
I don't understand the Biyombo signing at all. Should have tried to get someone with more upside. I wonder if there is any chance Clint Capela gets bought out? I'd assume none as Atlanta is trying to make the playoffs.
I saw you mentioned Bobby Portis is suspended? What happened there? And why does that allow an extra roster spot and doesn't for an injured player?
We're going to go back to giving 120 a night on defense. Incoming 15 game losing streak.
Time for some Bismacktion, tbh
Biyombo makes sense as just the emergency 3rd big I suppose, but now with Wemby out it makes no sense at all like you said. I don't think Capela does either. Find some young guy with upside (like when we found Bassey) or a reclamation project like Bamba (I don't even really like Bamba, but at least there is some potential upside there)
Portis got suspended this morning for testing positive for Tramadol, which is an opioid. He claims he got it mixed up with an approved medication called Toradol. They are both pain killers. (IDK how you get medications mixed up, both are Rx drugs, so it's not like he accident grabbed the wrong one at the pharmacy). Tramadol is an opioid but I've read that it's a pretty mild one, it's not like something you'd take recreationally to get high like Fentanyl.
I don't know the rules an extra roster spots, but I did read that after 5 games MIL will get an extra one. It's weird the NBA wouldn't give you one for an injured player.
I get that and agree, I'm just responding to the idea that we should buy him out just because.
It doesn't help the Spurs at the moment to lose him, so listing it as "something we should do now" doesn't really make sense to me. The choice is all his.
Habibi, look. Were we honestly thinking that we'd make the play-in at 23-29, 3.5 games out of the 10th seed, and with 30 games left on the season? I dunno. You could say something about the experience in playing for something those last 30, but them's the breaks. With the way they had been playing since the start of the new year, and with having to integrate Fox, and with our coaching staff not understanding which starting line up to use, I'd put the odds of the play-in at sub 50%. All of which is to say, it's not like we are contenders who just entered into lost-season territory.
Wemby is 21. Castle is 20. Assume your 30% chance of a top-5 hits. Low probability scenario where we get Cooper, then I think we're more than ok with this outcome (assuming Wemby makes a full recovery). Low-to-mid probability scenario where we get an Edgecomb or a Bailey (again, assuming Wemby makes a full recovery), I think we are again, more than ok with the outcome. It would suck for this to happen - and - for us to slip in draft position, but let's not think about that for now.
There's a high probability that we shut D-Fox down soon. There's a high probability we play Castle heavy minutes. That will both bode will for next year - especially the Castle piece.
My final hope is that the FO has seen enough from the group to make meaningful changes in the summer. Cut branham and wesley. Trade Keldon and/or Main Character and/or Sochan. We've seen enough this year to be in a position to make a meaningful push for the playoffs (or more) next year. Onviously, it really sucks losing Wemby for the year. No sugar coating that. But, I don't think we had a great upside this year. The chance of one last tank yielding a high value asset could very well set us up to be even better than OKC. If memory serves, Shai had an injury that shut him down - and OKC ended up with Chet as a result. This could be similar.
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