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Risacher shot up to +750 on Bovada, tied with Sarr for second in the race. Castle still remains steady at -750.
It's all about how you finish. I just want Steph to finish the season strong, especially against these upcoming good teams.
Tim and Manu picked up their games heading into the playoffs and started playing better. Steph has been pretty inefficient these past couple of weeks. Yes, he's a rookie, but I'm holding him to a pretty high standard. He's getting more shots, but his efficiency seems to be going down. He's missing shots near the rim, missing free throws, and his 3 ball isn't looking as good as it was for a stretch there a month or two ago. Also, just for his own confidence heading into next season, I want him to finish the season well regardless of whether or not the Spurs made the playoffs.
Risacher shot up to +750 on Bovada, tied with Sarr for second in the race. Castle still remains steady at -750.
Zac has had a good stretch but unless someone is looking at heavy recency bias, Steph should still be the runaway winner here, I don't see how anyone could reasonably go another direction and justify it if lookin at the whole season or even just 2025
team success tbh
I'm going to have to somewhat agree here. Team success with him coming on strong to finish the season could make it a lot closer than I thought it would be even just two weeks ago.
Historically team success doesn’t really factor into the ROY race. Unless the rookie is so good he single handed oh turns around the team, but if that’s the case the stats would pop anyways.
I'll defer to you guys on this because apart from the past two seasons with Victor and Steph, I've never really followed the rookie of the year as the Spurs didn't have anyone in the running since TD's rookie year. I think (at the time), the Spurs had the biggest turnaround in NBA history. Not sure if the 2008 Celtics broke that record for amount of wins from one season to the next.
Mccain is to castle as Hali is to Dev. Mccain was already a true pure shooter who we didn't have to teach to shoot and that includes free throws...castle just makes layups. Mccain was 3 level scorer
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Castle wins March ROTM for the Western Conference. Risacher for the EC.
yep
Wonder how many votes Johnny Furphy got, tbh
still would have been a better SRP than Juan Nunez
Castle is going to win it and should based on historical precedent (counting stats, narrative, more of a glamor role), but let's be honest, if the Spurs were the Hawks and Risacher were surging for a play-in/off team, we'd be claiming Castle is an empty calories chucker, with counting stats the product of mpg/usage on a bad team in (another) lost season.
Wasn't that the argument against Wemby last year?
I'm telling you guys, the sooner we let AI make these decisions the better.
Wembanyama was a special case, as an all-time rookie who was already arguably the highest impact defender in the league.
This is a weak class without a traditional consensus option.
Rookie of the year is usually a high draft pick, which means a , tanking team. I’ve never heard of weighted winning for this award.
Seeing that even with his late push, Risacher can’t match Steph’s numbers.
It helps when DRob and Timmy both had the highest turnaround records. Especially DRob who inherited a mediocre team, when they had Cadillac, Grampa Jones, Paspalj, Wingate among the names.. I will never forget because we just moved to San Antonio and was forced to watch the Spurs. While my cousin kept telling me about this freak naval officer who was just finishing his tour!! A 7’1 muscular freak who moved like a gazelle, and the rest was history.
It helped that they also drafted Sean Elliott that year and brought in vets Terry mings and Maurice Cheeks (soon to be traded for Rod Strickland)--they put a solid blend of youth and experience together that year. That said, none of it would have worked if Robinson weren't a superstar from Day 1 (which he absolutely was).
I wander what record they got this year if Wemby didn’t get hurt, with the additions of CP3, Barnes and a rookie stud. If we are to compare to DRob’s rookie year. Cheeks was already out of his prime, mings saw better years, yet they finished 56-26 from 21-61 the previous year.
One more assist would have sealed the deal for RoY, imho. Has any rookie gotten a triple double this season?
Castle needs to go visit that shooting coach again.
His shot has regressed and been laying a lot of bricks for the last few weeks.
That’s what the summer is for, but right now im very pleased that he’s experimenting with his middy game. That seems like an intentional new focus.
he's been legitimately embarrassing, especially on the defensive end it seems like every bucket comes off his man, i don't know what is his problem, maybe he just understand the assignment well and he'll be locked in next year. Hoping.
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