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Kiwi, LMA, Pau, Green, Porker. For now.
You guys are so seriously blaming on Parker. I think even if you replace Parker with CP3, we still stand no chance against GSW.
One or two of Curry, Durant or Thompson will have killed any line-up we put up.
GSW is a mega super team next season. No team will stand a chance if they gel.
Kiwi, LMA, Pau, Green, Porker. For now.
He's literally the weakest link. If you need someone to score 16+ points, would you take CP3 or Parker?
Absolutely. Spurs needed that 3rd wheel and he just didn't show last season. Was somewhat surprised he came back for that money last summer, now am glad. Improvement from him next season would be a great acquisition.
Parker will have to be better for sure. I wonder what it would take to get Patrick Beverly from Houston.
Paul can actually hit his jumper consistently
In terms of Green, lets hope that Lasik eye surgey makes a difference.
Pop needs to run plays for Green to keep him in rhythm. The passes he gets from post just aren't stable enough. Parker spotting up too would be nice, as I don't think he's going to be much better driving or running the PnR.
Over the course of the whole season, Golden State was not a great half-court team. They were good, but not great. Their real hammer came in the first 8-9 seconds of the shot clock. That was where their shooting percentages got jacked up so high, and it was where their biggest advantage could be seen. Part of the way to deal with that is obviously to play good transition defense. But my observation was that they fed off of other teams' bad shots. If Pau can still be a consistent low-post scorer, it's a HUGE plus when playing the Dubs.
I don't care how good a shooter is from distance, they still make a lower percentage of their attempts than good shooters in the paint. A 40% 3-point shooter is considered good, and they score 1.2 points per attempt over time. But that means that 60% of their attempts potentially provide opportunities for GS to jam it back down the court. A guy making 60% from close range still only scores 1.2 points per attempt. But only 40% of his attempts have a chance of leading to a fast break.
The point being that Pau's offensive game (which Tim was totally lacking at the end of the season) will lead to more points for the Spurs. But against teams like Golden State, it will lead to better defense for the Spurs, because they will have the opportunity to get back into their defense instead of constantly playing transition D.
Last edited by GSH; 07-04-2016 at 11:00 PM.
Yep, I remember... I was sayin it too. I wanted to see it against gs mainly, but that never even happened... Still think it's worth trying.
Now they got Eric Gordon, Beverly is most likely off the trading block.
Against centers, Pau shoots jumper like D-Worst who didn't get in LMA's way when Tim was out.
Pop can have Pau posting up when LMA is out of the game now that Diaw is on his way out.
Lol. Cat scored 28 tonight on bettee than 50% shooting and was clearly the best player on the floor for either team. You Kyle haters crack my ass up.
Kyle can take us to the summer league repeat
It's the SUMMER LEAGUE for crying out loud.
It's hard to get excited about the team untill Parker either has a resurgency or gets the out. He's just such a major deadweight right now.
It's just funny how ST is sometimes such an ignorant echo chamber that one opinion snowballs until there's someone saying stupid like the above.
I agree with DAF86 actually. Watch a game and quit sucking st.com ...
"Respect the big three", "The big three can do whatever they want"
Look, I'm grateful for all of what those guys did. But they aren't what they used to be. With Duncan and Ginobili there's no problem 'cause Tim is probably going to retire, and Manu is going to play for the vet minimum. I would have no problem with Parker either if he wasn't making all-star money while giving below average production for an NBA player. That's cap space that could be used on a young star that would really help us improve, or at the very least have better depth.
I love Tony but his contract is a huge handicap, anyone that thinks differently just doesn't want to see reality.
He did put up better numbers than Ben Simmons FWIW.
And he just finished his second year for crying out loud. With very little playing time his first year. Dude is 22-23. Not 28-29.
He's only going to get better. He was one of our best players off the bench already last year in certain games.
Let him develop a bit. Get off his ass. Profit.
He just didn't age well, which somewhat makes sense, as he has a lot of mileage. More than "resurgence", I just hope he finds his niche, like Tim and Manu did once it was clear they were not the dominant talent they once were, and embrace that "role player" role, which is still important. I've said it before, the Spurs didn't need to trade him, but perhaps acquire a younger (not rookie, but somewhat seasoned) PG and move TP to the bench. Not a matter of disrespect or anything, just to have a more balanced team, where you have LMA/Kawhi really dominating and where Tony has more legroom to be more effective.
Unfortunately, Patty is just a streaky shooter, I don't know it would work out like that. I was thinking more of a game-manager type of PG (Conley obviously fits that bill, but he would've been way expensive).
The problem is that we need another big time scorer, not another role player. That's why that waste of cap space hurts us so much.
That type of point guard is now a rarity. They're either unavailable (i.e. Chris Paul) or too old (i.e. Andre Miller).
And the idiot echo chamber is visited by the head idiot.
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