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He's got excellent court vision and awareness for a rookie. Impressive how he knows how to use a change of pace to beat the defender.
He did quite well in overtime defending against quick guards.
Definitely. He's already shown improvement on it quickly...good sign for his overall development.
People still want to keep believing this kid doesn't have the foot speed to belong in the NBA. I still expect them to be wrong. Kid is a basketball player.
He's got excellent court vision and awareness for a rookie. Impressive how he knows how to use a change of pace to beat the defender.
He did quite well in overtime defending against quick guards.
He was a good pick at 30 just for his rebounding. He was a good pick at 30 just for his shooting. He was a good pick at 30 just for his size/handles. We got all 3 in one package.
Kyle Anderson will have a nice NBA career, and guys drafted well in front of him with high 30s verticals will bust out of the league in 3-5 years.
if only he was also good at killing people named Jeff Ayres
Exactly. He's better than a lot of lottery picks from the draft. If he had freak athleticism he'd be the number one pick. If people actually understood basketball, they'd know how special of a player KA is, and why he has all the tools to be a great player and have a long career.
It would not surprise me if he is ahead of Joseph and Daye in the rotation by the end of the season, and I could see him getting good minutes on the same order as Patty by the playoffs.
He's already going to be ahead of Daye.
Daye was the 15th pick in his draft.
Tells you what a crap shoot the draft can be....
The scouts weren't wrong, though. Daye has a load of talent. You can still see it. He's almost 7 feet tall, and he moves like a guard. He can dribble, he can shoot. He just doesn't have the extra gear and doesn't seem to have a basketball brain. He's so talented that despite all that he still manages to do sort of okay. It's maddening. This is probably his last US stop, because teams aren't going to trade for someone that the Spurs couldn't turn into an NBA player.
I only saw like the first half of last game but from what I saw of him he looked really bad defensively. Granger backed him down with ease a few times, while his lateral movement looked terrible, but I'm not sure how much of that had to do with him guarding a guard.
I fear he'll be a defensive liability in the playoffs, a guy they'll go at every time he's on the floor.
Maddening indeed. He doesn't seem to have improved his mobility. Also doesn't seem to have a killer instinct.
He's going to be the new Matt Bonner.... that guy in the Spurs that we all hate but who's sole purpose in the team is to space the floor.
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He shot decent from distance last game, but prior to that he was in a massive slump. Nobody spreads the floor if they can't make baskets. At least offenses won't fixate on Daye and score on him until the coach is forced to pull him out.
This guy has the tools to be in this league. I think he will carve out a role for himself
That's what I want to see. I want to see team force the issue and try to score against Daye. I suspect he'll do better than Bonner. There's no subs ute for length when it comes to defense. Just ask Tim Duncan.
If Kawhi is out by the opening of the season, do you think Anderson is above Daye in the pecking order? Or is Pop starting Belinelli?
I don't know about Belli, but Kyle probably gets the nod. He's already played 24 more minutes that Austin. Partially due to Austin's fouling. But, Kyle is out-rebounding him, shooting a better %, fouling less, getting to the line more, assisting better (of course he handles the ball more), better in plus minus...
Austin edges him in fewer turnovers in total and per minute (of course he doesn't handle the ball as much), more steals (3-1), and personally I would give him a slight edge in defense, but they're both suffering there and that's a little more subjective...
If you think that Kyle is a better defender in the paint, then it's a slam dunk for Kyle. I don't think so, but I give him the edge for all the other reasons anyway.
Spurs list Austin Daye as a SF and Anderson as a SG, whatever that means!
KA seems to have the go signal to handle the ball and make plays. I don't see Daye doing that. Daye's job appears to be as simple as Bonner's job. To think that KA is just a rookie!
Yeah. They have to list them at something. Kyle is a 1,2,3,4 and Daye a 3,4 and neither are any one of those positions very definitively.
i liked the pick, wish he was faster but can't have it all, not at end of the draft anyways. he looks very instinctive and natural out there and will only get better.
nice bait.
My man KA is going to be just fine tbh. He'll prove the doubters wrong. I've watched him closely since his Freshman year at UCLA. Saw him play in person last season at Pauley Pavilion. The kid is a basketball player. He's not going to jump out of the gym and he's not going to be an All-Star. But, for the 30th pick overall, he's going to be a steal. Just watch.
KA definitely stuffed the stat sheet last night. Depending on status of Kawhi's eye infection it's not unreasonable to think he may be starting at the 3 opening night.
Details?
Oh yeah it is. Very unreasonable. He'd get torched by Chandler Parsons. The Spurs would start a veteran in his place.
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