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    You'd hope next year that would be Leonard. If the Spurs do take a Guard though and not a prototype SG my only concern is that he have handles. Very few players on the team can actually handle the ball
    Leonard will not be enough. This kid can ball and has handles. Judging from the interview as well he seems like he has a good at ude and is well spoken. Unlike other draftees, ahem Ricky Ledo, who speak like they're high.

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    KD couldn't do it once and he's the 2nd best player in the NBA now. Kawhi somehow only did it 3 times as well.
    I'm surprised Kawhi was only able to do it 3 times considering he weigh's about 220.

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    Nah...I dont think so, Neal cant ball this kid can...and this kid will make a good pro in about 2 years.
    Neal is a pretty damn good scorer against average defense/defenders. Problem arises when you put somebody on him who can actually defend or is athletically superior. Same problems this kid will have when he gets going.

    Measurements mean so much in the NBA but apparently not as much to the Spurs as we've seen over the years.

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    I think everyone is expecting Pop to play this kid if he's drafted..

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    Calling bull .

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    You know what the basketball greats say, "You can never have enough backup point guards." Oh wait...

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    LMFAO at anyone who believes the Spurs promised someone then let it get out to the media. Is this your first draft? I guess those posters are the epitome of gnsf.

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    ^And the virgin of the year award goes to...

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    , if anybody should be excited about this rumour it should be Green. Have not heard much about him till now and at least this rumour gets his name out there and maybe a team in the 1st bites...

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    Weird shot release
    very weird, it seems like he forces himself to fade away every shot...

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    IMO the Spurs are going to draft a SG. I think it will be Snell or Ledo and the Spurs might move to draft them. If there are not there they will draft Jean Charles. Spurs need a SG that can create his own shot and take defenders off the dribble. Ledo espeically will instantly be able to provide that for the Spurs.

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    Recent history of guards drafted in the first round:

    2008 -- George Hill: standout defender, useful ranged shooter, picked at 26 and swapped for KL at #15 = successful pick.
    2010 -- James Anderson: pure 2 guard who didn't pan out; not a combo guard in any useful sense.
    2011 -- Cory Joseph: raw project combo guard. Year 1: redshirt year in Austin. Year 2: spent most of the year in Austin, then came up and promptly won the spot as Tony's backup. Solid NBA defender all the way through the conference finals, but ineffective vs. Miami. Year 3: ???

    So Hill was a great success relative to where he was picked, Anderson wasn't a combo guard, and Joseph seems to be coming along ok given that he was a project pick.

    The track record for second round picks is a lot shakier, but everyone's track record for second round picks is dicey at best. So if the Spurs think Erick Green can be a useful pick as a combo guard, the track record suggests that there's a perfectly good chance that he will be.
    All I recall was Joseph and 1 against Bird Man in the game 3 route. What did he do that was so ineffective to get him benched? I missed that part tbh.

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    I'm surprised Kawhi was only able to do it 3 times considering he weigh's about 220.
    Yeah, but he has a ridiculous arm length, which makes BP exponentially harder.

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    If there is a "promise", it means that if he's on the board at 28, SA will take him. Players don't want to drop out of the first round, because their salary in the first round is guaranteed. Many would have withdrawn from the draft without that promise.
    Which is why it is most likely this rumor is completely bogus (or smokescreen at most). Green just finished his senior year, he's in the draft one way or another - no reason for any team to promise him anything.

    Maybe the Spurs like him & will take him, but almost certainly BS that they have a promise out to him.

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    The thing that jumps out to me is his court speed...he can fly with the ball in his hands

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    from the clip remind me a little cj watson, i understand he is nice overall scorer, but does he can run the point? what his assists and assists/TO numbers?

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    Dunno anything about this guy, but as a general observation, expect every team to be more and more interested in distance shooters. Small ball is here to stay, just ask Haslem and Splitter (b/c, you know, they didn't get much PT). Frankly I think the Spurs' greatest need is a good backup PG--Parker got gassed from all the minutes and that slowed us down more than anything. Doubt if we'll get a good solution at #28 in the draft, tho.

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    Dunno anything about this guy, but as a general observation, expect every team to be more and more interested in distance shooters. Small ball is here to stay, just ask Haslem and Splitter (b/c, you know, they didn't get much PT). Frankly I think the Spurs' greatest need is a good backup PG--Parker got gassed from all the minutes and that slowed us down more than anything. Doubt if we'll get a good solution at #28 in the draft, tho.
    There's 3 possible solutions: (1) try to develop CoJo and/or Nando to be legit playoff-quality rotation players, (2) sign a free agent to play over the guys we're developing, (3) draft yet another prospect and start the development process over. Unless the FO has concluded that CoJo/Nando will never be able to get it done, the third option sounds like the worst one.

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    George Hill replacement. I can see the spurs going this way. The Spurs need another player who can handle the ball and take it to the basket. They need to stop using Manu as a pg and scale back his minutes overall and this pick will solve that.

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    If true (I'm skeptical that there's a promise, but wouldn't be surprised if they do in fact take him, as he'd not only fill a need, but he sounds like Spurs material), I like it, for a myriad of reasons . . .

    - Neal is probably gone, because I doubt they want to tie up $2-3M in him, but also, as we know, he can't play PG and playing him next to Ginobili forces Ginobili to spend too much time at SF.

    - They'll need to replace his scoring off the bench; specifically, they need their backup PG to be a scorer and in theory, Green is an ideal fit next to Ginobili, as he can get his own shot, yet is also a good enough shooter to function as a spot up threat.

    - Despite his lack of strength, he's long enough that, in tandem with Joseph, they should be able to get away with either defending SG's (Hill used to do it, Ellis has done it for years, Bradley currently does, etc.), when Ginobili inevitably get's his minimum 2 injuries . . . and this is getting way ahead obviously, but if he and Joseph establish themselves as rotation players, they could eventually work in tandem as the backup guards behind Parker/Green, when Ginobili retires in probably 2 years.

    - Backup SF may look like a bigger hole on paper, but they at least have three quality wing players. Besides, if they like Casspi better than Bullock, Snell, etc. (neither of whom are true SF's, nor are the other candidates projected to be in that range), then it makes no sense to pick one of them.

    - Some will inevitably quibble with not taking a player they can stash and eating up cap space, but all this would do is probably pave the way for them to either release De Colo to return to Europe or to trade him and he's slightly more expensive than the 28th pick will be.

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    Kazemi is a 6'7 power forward? Tf.

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    Good God. This has smokescreen written all over it. What good would it do to draft yet another backup PG when Pop can't even develop one from the bunch he has?

    I trust the Spurs are focusing more on adding more size in the frontcourt.
    This guy looks much better than the scrubs the spurs have for backup pg.

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    Highly doubtful that the Spurs draft him, virtually no other sources have him any where on the Spurs radar. Tim Hardaway Jr. seems to be the favorite, at least in the eyes of many experts.

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    This guy looks much better than the scrubs the spurs have for backup pg.
    Maybe, but the Spurs have more pressing needs than the collective assortment of smalls at backup PG. The very thought of even wasting a pick to add yet another one is assinine.

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