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No. No starter.
definitely seems like a hybrid. he has the sochan/jalen johnson type build. somewhere between 6'8 and 6'9 with a wingspan at 7 feet or so
athletically he's probably somewhere in betwene those two. i think he could player either spot. his jumper looks solid and defensively i dont think he has any issue on the perimeter at all
he just has had a small role for most of the year so the production isnt there
No. No starter.
Good point. I assume any new starters would come via trade or free agency (if any).
Draft shooting and rebounding — I’m partial to Asa and McNeeley right now.
Those are my 2 picks as well.
I like Kon and McNeeley, but as pointed out here they are very different players. McNeeley is a 3 and Kon is a 2. I think Kon is the better fit. Kon + Rasheer would be as good as we could get in this draft without moving to the top of the draft. Kon and Bryant would be very good too, although it'll take Bryant longer to develop.
Bryant having a heck of a tournament debut
he's not as prolific/productive, but there is some Rudy Gay in his game, and i mean that in a good way. 3/4 through the game, he has 9 points (4-6 shooting, 1-2 from 3), 4 rebounds, 3 blocks and a steal
edti: just knocked in another 3 as well
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Have seen a lot of posts about "I don't want to use a lotto pick on a backup [whatever]" but the reality is most of these guys look like backups for multiple years. The consensus Top 5 are really the only 5 I'd be surprised to see not become more than a career backup. Most everyone else needs to reach the high end of their range of outcomes to exceed that, IMO.
It’s a pessimistic to say everybody after the top 5 is a backup when I don’t think that’s ever happened historically.
That's not what I'm saying, amigo. Undoubtably, some of these guys will reach the high end of their range of outcomes. Maybe even become all-stars. It happens every year. It's just that outside of the top 5, my median expectation for most of these guys is career backup. I'm just increasingly of the opinion that this is a very poor draft from around 6-20. After that point things level off to a typical draft (where the median expectation is role player anyway)
Edit: so with that in mind, there are a couple directions you can go. The safer route might net you a nice role player. Or you can swing for upside (which is how you hit home runs, but you also sometimes just get Blakes and Brans)
I'm fine with drafting a rotation player. Doesn't necessarily have to be a starter, but the player should be in the rotation at the start of the season. I'm also on the Maluach train. He'd be a contributor for obviously the biggest need of our team and we'd have great rim protection for 48 minutes. With the league going more towards double big line ups again, they could experiment of playing him and Wemby together for a few minutes as well.
The Spurs don’t follow league trends tbh
they’ve been doubling , tripling down on their current roster construction
if they were interested in doing anything else, they would have experimented way more with Bassey and Wemby playing together. Or collins and Wemby playing together. Or even Sandro and Wemby playing together. Fact is, they dont believe in that model. They want someone ultra switchable on defense at the 4.
McNeeley stinking it up
The most predictable pick the Spurs can make is Egor Demin, especially if they keep winning like this and fall to the later lottery. Egor fits the versatility mold they’re going for tbh… especially if the reported interest in Giddey was real
carter bryant gonna be in the lottery if he keeps this up.
You probably need at least a passing big if you want to go in that direction to be able to run some kind of offense between them.
Fears would look really good on our team. If Fox was not on the roster this is probably the prospect most mocked to us.
he's gonna be a star hope falls to spurs
Valiant effort by Fears. He’s gonna go top 10
Holding my McNeeley shares with diamond hands tbh
Should have passed on super-expensive Fox and drafted Fears instead. Way way way cheaper and the same archetype.
Boat, mystery box, etc
take Fleming and Bryant and you’ve just added length, defense, athleticism and shooting at the forward spots and a legit option to play some small 5
Jakucionas not shooting well but nearly a triple doub.
Carter Bryant reminds me of a guy like Josh Minott. Very athletic, didn't play much, went into the draft anyway, went second round, still hasn't done anything in the pros.
minott was definitely springier than what ive seen from bryant. but he couldnt shoot at all, and bryant is definitely bigger/stronger than he was
its possible he flames out. its why he's going to go in the 20's in all likelihood. if he comes back for another year of college i think he'll easily go lotto next year. coach didnt trust him much as a freshman, would have much more production as a sop re. he's the only freshman in their rotation this year, and even then his role was smaller early in the year and grew with time
Will Riley tho...
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