The Latest Evolving Depth Chart

[dbestpro]

Parker, Vaughn
Ginobili, Mason
Bowen, Udoka
Duncan, Mahini, Bonner
Oberto, Thomas

NBDL: Hill, Gist

I think Thomas will resign. I agree that without Thomas a frontcourt trade will be made. My roster leaves 2 roster spots. Project Spurs to sign one more vet and go with 14 players at the start of the season.

[lakehorn]

Right now I think the depth chart looks like:

Parker
Ginobili
Bowen
Duncan
Oberto

Backup points: Vaughn, Hill (if you want to keep going down the line ... Ginobili, Mason)
Backup wings: Mason, Udoka
Backup bigs: Bonner, Ian

The Spurs lack of depth is scary.

Of course, it's July so who knows by October. If Thomas doesn't come back, the lack of bigs is pretty daunting. And I'm not sold that Gist or Tolliver will be on the Spurs. Plus I wouldn't be surprised if players like Udoka, Bonner or even Ian get dealt in the right deal.

If Thomas doesn't sign the Spurs may take a look at Kawme Brown or sign-n-trade with Nets for Kristic. I'm not sold on Hill with the Spurs next season, more than likely Hill and Gist spend a year in Austion playing for Toros. Wouldn't be surprised if they made a run at Matt Barnes on a 2 year make good contract.

[rj215]

Parker, Vaughn
Ginobili, Mason
Bowen, Udoka
Duncan, Mahini, Bonner
Oberto, Thomas

NBDL: Hill, Gist

I think Thomas will resign. I agree that without Thomas a frontcourt trade will be made. My roster leaves 2 roster spots. Project Spurs to sign one more vet and go with 14 players at the start of the season.

If our much lauded first round pick goes to the NBDL after the summer league after CDR and Chalmers did well, I'd be disappointed.

[nil.ball]

Good luck winning a 'ship with this roster.

[Joe Schmoogins]

Good luck winning a 'ship with this roster.

thanks! although we don't need your luck (it is an odd year), I appreciate the sentiment.

[Mr. Body]

It's time to move on, and i'm not referring to that democratic website.

Move on from what? What are you talking about?

[Mr. Body]

The Spurs lack of depth is scary.

This is just not a good roster. Whatever promise the young players may have is years away. It's very sad to say, again, and that this may be the weakest team since the 2000-2002 trough years. Maybe the worst of the Duncan years. Ugh.

[AFBlue]

thanks! although we don't need your luck (it is an odd year), I appreciate the sentiment.

Since he's Rockets fan, I'd say the Spurs never need his luck....his team's got the worst damn luck in the league. Or the most injury prone....however you choose to look at it.

[The Truth #6]

Amidst all this hand-wringing and woe-is-weeing is one inescapable fact: The Spurs, by most accounts, stand an excellent chance of having two rookies make the regular season roster and actually contribute, and it's not out of the question just yet that they won't have all three. Two hasn't happened since I've been a fan, and I'd guess the Spurs haven't come close to that since there were way more than two rounds of the draft. So all the doom and gloom about what a poor draft this is just shows a missing sense of Spurs history IMHO.

One could interpret that scenario differently to say the reason we haven't had 2-3 draft picks make the team is because we had quality players already on the team.

[Mr. Body]

One could interpret that scenario differently to say the reason we haven't had 2-3 draft picks make the team is because we had quality players already on the team.

This is fairly it. An unusual number of rookies will make the team more because there are slots to fill rather than any of their inherent qualities.

[Mr.Bottomtooth]

I fully believe that roster can win a championship next season. I'll hold my judgement until they've used the MLE fully and the LLE, but even then I believe they will have a great chance to win it all next year.

[jay014]

http://www.sportsline.com/nba/teams/depth-chart/SA

[tav1]

This is just not a good roster. Whatever promise the young players may have is years away. It's very sad to say, again, and that this may be the weakest team since the 2000-2002 trough years. Maybe the worst of the Duncan years. Ugh.

I think the roster is fine; the depth is fine. We need to add Thomas and a free agent swing like Nachbar and everything will work itself out. My only concern is relative lack of experience in the system. Because of this, I suspect things will be choppy early.

[manufor3]

Devean George - 6'8" career 39% fg percentage and 34.1% 3p percentage.
Boki Nachbar - 6'9" career 40.6% fg percentage and 37.5% 3p percentage.

I'll go for Nachbar in the rotation:

Parker/Hill/Vaughn
Mason/Ginobili/Finley
Bowen/Nachbar/Udoka/Gist
Duncan/Mahinmi/Bonner
Thomas/Oberto/

im sorry but boki is not a good option, bad for the spurs, good for a team like the bulls.

[Joe Schmoogins]

This is just not a good roster. Whatever promise the young players may have is years away. It's very sad to say, again, and that this may be the weakest team since the 2000-2002 trough years. Maybe the worst of the Duncan years. Ugh.

How so? This roster is not yet complete, but even still, it is pretty solid and i'd say an upgrade to last season's. Who have we lost? Barry, Damon, Rob... Not a big deal. The only tough one to swallow of the three is Barry and he was nonexistant most of last season anyway. If we resign Finley and Thomas, we are in great shape. hill is an upgrade over damon and vaughn, mason will give us more than barry gave us last season, mahinmi is improved, and frankly i'd rather have gist growing in austin than horry rotting on the bench. Looks good from where I'm sitting.

[ShoogarBear]

The Spurs lack of depth is scary.

Don't even try to think about what happens if Mahinmi doesn't come through.

[Mr. Body]

How so? This roster is not yet complete, but even still, it is pretty solid and i'd say an upgrade to last season's. Who have we lost?

What else do you think can be done, unless it's resigning Thomas and Finley? If those two stay this might average out from last year at best. The young players are all weaker, point by point, depending on how Mason does.

[Obstructed_View]

One could interpret that scenario differently to say the reason we haven't had 2-3 draft picks make the team is because we had quality players already on the team.

One could interpret it that way if one were inclined to be incorrect. You're welcome to go back and find the last draft where the Spurs had two picks that actually made NBA rosters that year. I think it's only happened one time since 1990.

[Obstructed_View]

This is fairly it. An unusual number of rookies will make the team more because there are slots to fill rather than any of their inherent qualities.

See the above post. Roster spots are about as tight as they've ever been on this team, and all three picks look like NBA players. I know you're married to the idea that this was a terrible draft. It doesn't look that way so far.

[DPG21920]

Even if the rookies make the team, their playing time will be limited. It will be the FA's who play more.

[DPG21920]

Or guys moving up in the rotation such as Bonner.

[DPG21920]

The roster does have its weaknesses. Is it a great roster? No. Have we had better? Yes. Can we win a championship with this roster? Yes. Are the odds great? No.

This roster can win, but there is absolutely no margin for error. Not to mention we are not done forming the roster yet...

[SequSpur]

Right now I think the depth chart looks like:

Parker
Ginobili
Bowen
Duncan
Oberto

Backup points: Vaughn, Hill (if you want to keep going down the line ... Ginobili, Mason)
Backup wings: Mason, Udoka
Backup bigs: Bonner, Ian

The Spurs lack of depth is scary.

Of course, it's July so who knows by October. If Thomas doesn't come back, the lack of bigs is pretty daunting. And I'm not sold that Gist or Tolliver will be on the Spurs. Plus I wouldn't be surprised if players like Udoka, Bonner or even Ian get dealt in the right deal.

Exactly.

This line up is ty.

[DPG21920]

That team is better defensively than last years, except at the 4/5, but depending on who we add, that can change.

[ducks]

tp will have to be better next year