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I agree. Everything is correct.
For those wishing and hoping for Kyle to be more aggressive... Stop it.
Kyle, now in his 3rd year, is not the type of player to be aggressive with the ball initiating offense. He's not quick enough to create enough space to get off a good shot for him or his teammates. If he creates a shot, its over the top of his defender only because of how long he is. Shooting over your defender fading away is a bad shot and a terribly inefficient way to be aggressive and that's the only kind offense he can create with the ball.
The only type of aggression he needs to implement in his game is taking the open three when the ball is swung to him. It's three preseason games in his third year in the NBA, and he still refuses to take the open three. He is still constantly turning it down in favor of pump faking ( that no defender falls for), and putting the ball on the floor going left into a congested area where he traps himself and his teammates. He ruins any kind of fluidity and spacing within an offense.
I know it's early, but I prefer Spurs going with Bertans at the back up three and using Anderson as a trade piece to bring in another big.
I agree. Everything is correct.
I also want to see what Bertans has in place of Kyle. At least he shoots the damn rock.
We should trade or cut him, he's done, he's never going to be anything, I'm surprised he still gets so many free passes here...sad part is you could tell years ago this was the case.
Just can't see him bringing anything overly positive to the Spurs in the long run
idk what people are expecting anderson to become. would play bertans over him.
Legend has it he's still passing up open threes
Myself and I assume some others think of aggressivness as Just Him being willing to take the open three.
I'm not expecting a whole lot from him as a player but he can be a servicable 9th guy in his career of he works on his three.
Waiting for SAgirl to respond.
That's the problem, bud. Pop is counting on him to be the 5th, 6th, or 7th guy this season.
That's a problem.
I haven't watched any preseason games but it sounds like he still has the same flaws he had last season. We can't keep saying "he's young, he'll get better." Plus I still can't forgive him for how ineffective he was in the OKC series. And it's sounding like Bertans has been much better too.
I swear he'd better not become the next leech like Bonner
Welp, it is early... plus word on the street, from Pop and some teammates is that he's good, and potentially warrants a bigger role.
Going back to my summer league comments, it just doesn't really look like he's changed much at all from last season. There's no new tricks or change of at ude. I don't know if I got used to him by now or the summer league guys were just too skinny, but he doesn't even look as bulky as he did during the summer.
ISO-Kyle might be a winner in the SL, but I've yet to see that's going to work in the NBA. And his unwillingness to just make the easy play sometimes (taking what the game gives him, not what he wants) is just disappointing.
But it is early. I'm sure there's going to be one too many video sessions to point that out to him, and hopefully there will be a breakthrough at some point.
If anything, Bertrans potentially bringing up some compe ion can only be good to make him work harder for it.
That's right you haven't.
C'mon... Shut up. Watch a game, for Christ's sake and then talk.
If only...
give that guy a break, he's just giving his impression of what the people who have been able to see the games think.
and his take is right too.
Bump-able thread, imo.
For who?
And Pop wants to increase his role this year by playing him at three positions.How the can he play three different positions when he can't master one.
Keep him in Austin so he can dominate there.
Ehhhhhhh, he is okay but not overly impressed with the guy tbh. He is nicknamed SLOW, that is not good.
Probably will be bumped all season and I hope for the Spurs that he will pull it together.
This is the actual season when you can be critical so it's fine. Last season he was for all intents a rook since he didn't play much his first and getting in as the 15th man to a championship team returning all 14 players in 2014 is not what I call an opportunity to get in the rotation.
This season though, they are counting on him. I expect Pop to be tougher on him than last season offensively. The issue he has is mental. He doesn't have the mind of a shooter, but he's not beyond hope because he can shoot however. This is not an issue of him being unable to shoot the ball, which is the issue for guys who launch 5 shots per game and still only make 27% like some in the league. That's not Kyle. So he's not beyond hope. A trade will not return value at this point.
too much of that going on... lol
This thread will be bumped for sure... When he's cut so we can sign some old right before the playoff eligibility deadline
Na that'll never happen, Pop loves him more than Matt.
No doubt about this. The fact the Spurs potentially wasted 3 years on this guy if he doesn't pan out will probably hurt even more.
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