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Fathead is a shrink in the playoffs. No good.
I've mentioned this possibility repeadtly a few months ago and many analyst have talked about it. Sport illustrated for example listed him as a SG and a few other people have began predicting him as an SG.
Now I should mention that wings in a spurs motion offense are interchangable and really in most systems SGs and SFs have very similar roles. It's kinda obvious now that Leonard is going to handle the ball more.
Leonard playing the two does open create new and different lineups though. I think that's the biggest thing you can take away from Kawhi willingly playing the two. For Starters, You can play two bigs, Anderson at the 3 and Kawhi at the 2...a lineup that barely saw any minutes last year. I think its going to help the team in the regular season add a little bit more explosiness in their offense.
It should also limit the ISOs between Leonard and Aldridge and allow for a more flowing offense while utilizing their third tier star Aldridge and MVP kawhi.
I think the biggest thing is new lineup possibilities.
I still think the best chance to beat GSW is to bully them with Gasol-Aldridge-Kawhi and slow the game down...but the new explosivness can help against LAC, CLE and any other team the spurs might face going forward.
Fathead is a shrink in the playoffs. No good.
Fathead helping the offense add a little explosiveness to the offense? LMAO
Perhaps................
Gasol at center, Lamarcus and Kyle at point forward
Kawhi and Mills at guard!!!!
That could work hey? Because now you have the threat of Mills and Kawhi shooting the three....
This is a good idea actually, in certain situations, i hope the Spurs coaching staff start to be more creative
Fathead at power forward and SAGirl at center.
A Murray/Kawhi/Bertans/Aldridge/Gasol line-up is the one I'd like to see.
Good point
It's preseason, it's the time to get creative.
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It's also a necessity of Manu being unlikely to reach 30 minutes again, and closer to 20 minutes most games like last season.
At this current point, Anderson is the 3rd wing if Manu is out, which could happen easily at least 10 games and maybe more. That means, at some point, some minutes in the SL were going to swing to Anderson.
Last edited by SAGirl; 10-10-2016 at 02:50 AM.
Very little to gain from this change. Danny Green's value drops if he's put on the bench and besides, there's no SF with the required skills to accommodate Leonard at the 2.
That said, I'd definitely like to see the ball in his hands a lot on the PnR and a little less post up play from him. More slashing, more going to the line.
Depends on how versatile Bertans ends up being, tbh.
Parker, Leonard, Bertans, Aldridge, Gasol
Mills, Ginobili, Green, Lee, Dedmon
Him and explosive do not belong in the same sentence to be honest.
However versatile he might be ( he's not ), he's neither good enough, nor talented enough for such a big role.
Too early to make that call, tbh.
Anderson at the 3, Kawhi at the 2, Murray at the point (we know how much you hate Parker), and send Danny Green to the bench. Sounds like a plan. Might think about getting Don Nelson in to coach it, too.
I don't really know how much if that may end up happening but the thread was started bc Anderson did pair up with Kawhi on the wing last game. It's not a hypothetical concerning the two of them..... it happened already.
Then everyone else is throwing their own change lineups they would rather see, including myself, but Kawhi/Anderson happened already and may happen more this season simply bc of Manu's decline in minutes an he's the 3rd wing in that case.
Who needs shooting tbh
A lot of things "have happened". A few years back, I remember Parker defending Dirk for a stretch, in a regular season game. This was pre-season, and lots of unusual things happen in pre-season. I suspect it had more to do with Pop wanting to observe KA at the 3, and not Kawhi at the 2.
I don't know exactly what situations you think will benefit from having Kawhi at the 2 and KA at the 3, but if it "happens" in the regular season, it will most likely be from some odd-assed convergence of subs utions and Pop just wanting to throw a different look at an opponent. If it gets more than token minutes during the regular season, I'll be more than shocked. It's an aberration, at best, come the regular season. You and Apo are talking like it's some big thing to watch out for this year.
It's not that Kawhi can't play as a 2 - but it's probably not a good way to maximize his value. But Anderson's speed really limits him as a 3, unless you re-define what a 3 is. I'm not getting into any long-winded discussions about the whole thing, because we aren't going to see it enough to make it worth discussing.
Spurs have three positions. Guard, wings, bigs.
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If Leonard started play SG in the depth chart, that would mean our big rotation is solid. Unfortunately, outside Gasol and LMA, our bigs are pretty ordinary. Lee is a nice 4th choice, but we don't have that game changing first big off the bench. That means Anderson and Leonard will need to play the 4 on the depth chart, when injuries eventually happen.
He's played the 3 a lot... more than any other spot. What's affected him the most is his lack of 3 pt shooting, but he's played the wing in the NBA and is in the rotation and did so last season. I thought Pop was heading a different direction but he's again on the wing and likely the 3 rd when Manu is unavailable so exploring how the two if them can play together is a necessity. Anyways I was just pointing out this is not an aberration and it's quite fine IMO to speculate about it.
I'd like to see Bertans get more run as the bench 4. It places Pop in a bind with Lee, but it's not so easy to bench Lee when the bust is likely Dedmon.
The problem is Lee is our 1st big off the bench. He really needs to shape back in form to earn that. But by default he is. And Bertans body is not mature enough for big minutes at the 4. Situational, yeh sure, but as a standard rotation? No. I really wish we dial Brown and ask for one of Sixers bigs for Anderson/Simmons/picks. Heck, even Grant can play PF. Or Bjenica or Dieng from the Twolves. We are short one decent big. And we let JaMycal Green go, and now he is starting for the Grizzlies. Which makes me think Joel Anthony has a shot.
Last edited by tbdog; 10-10-2016 at 03:26 AM.
So, you want your best Curry defender (Kawhi will have to switch between Durant and Klay) on the bench? Nope!
Last edited by SpurPadre; 10-10-2016 at 03:37 AM.
Can a larger size lineup with Kawhi, Kyle-Davis, LMA, and Pau counter small balls teams?
It seems like Pop's willing to play mad scientist experimenting with lineups until find the answer.
He can exploit the mismatch that he creates attacking smaller defenders.It's not that Kawhi can't play as a 2 - but it's probably not a good way to maximize his value.
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