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This is just to keep him from going to GS tbh.
Playoff intensity exhausted him.damn, Gasol was money from distance in the RS, the happened
This is just to keep him from going to GS tbh.
Not really surprising to me. He was great in the regular season, but I was worried how he would go shooting them in the playoffs when teams didn't give him space and time to set up the shot. It went worse than I expected. He needs time to setup and release the shots. If he has to hurry it just a little bit, it doesn't look like he can make the shot. Teams don't give you those wide open looks in the playoffs if you're that good of a shooter. He did miss some wide open ones in the playoffs, but I think he also rushed the shot a few times too as I don't think he got the same quality of looks he got in the regular season.
Gasol is good if he realizes he is not an all star and that he needs to play within the team framework. I feel like he finally got that after the first half of last season.
I don't think he'll be better in year 2.
What was missing last season was engagement, effort, hustle, then his 3G shot went cold in the playoffs.
pounding the rock is not a legit source.
MVPau averaged 13/8/2 in 23 minutes post all star break. 49.0/59.0/78.3 shooting splits
As long as Poop doesn't play him with Aldridge, especially with all the dumb useless P&R switching the Spurs coaches love to do, then he's a no brainer.
We're seriously trying to become the oldest team in the history of the NBA
Surprisingly, Spurs current average age is around 26 or so.
Lmfao
Sorry if it seems like I'm following you around but you're hitting too many nails on the head.
They now have a lot of youth but those guys are in the deep bench... Their only real rotation players under 30 are Kawhi and Mills.
They are an old team for the most part, with a 5 or 6 guys in the deep bench between the ages of 21-24 to soak up minutes in the regular season, but some of them would need to become real rotation players for this team to get younger.
They should perform a weighted team average (based on minutes) to determine the average age of an NBA team. What good is showing that the average roster age is 26 IF the youngest players get very little burn.
Barely took any. Was very frustrating.
I'm expecting the younger players to play. I think it will surprise a lot of people. And don't count Parker right now either.
Exactly...
heh I did a google search and someone on reddit went through the trouble of doing that. The Spurs from last season (with Dedmon and Simmons both 27 being in the rotation, who are young) were still one of the oldest teams at 29.57 on average. As a topic of interest, the Cavs were the oldest team in the East at 29.19 years average, while the Bucks were the youngest at 25.61. In the west, only the Clippers at 30.04 were older on average than the Spurs, effectively making the Spurs the second oldest team in the entire league. The youngest teams in the west are the Blazers at 24.82 and the Thunder at 24.65. https://www.reddit.com/r/nba/comment...ed_by_minutes/
The Spurs of next season will undoubtedly be younger bc minutes from Lee (aged 33) Dedmon and Simmons (28) will be replaced with minutes from Joff Lauvergne (aged 25), Bertans (24), Anderson (23). Minutes next season from Tony (35) are likely to go to Mills (29?, Dejounte (20 currently but will soon be 21), D.White (23) and Forbes (24)... so I'd say the Spurs of next season will generally really be younger. Hopefully, those guys take advantage of their opportunities and give us something to look forward to in their development.
Last edited by SAGirl; 07-19-2017 at 01:32 PM.
there are other factors to take into consideration. fans may scoff at the value of a third team player but there are cir stances in which they may become important even if there per minutes is insignificant on paper. then there is the whole notion of development and how that translates to where the team is headed. is there rebuilding ahead of that team or is the team already in the process of rebuilding? many fans think of teams that are old as being at the end of their run.
Nice breakdown.Exactly...
heh I did a google search and someone on reddit went through the trouble of doing that. The Spurs from last season (with Dedmon and Simmons both 27 being in the rotation, who are young) were still one of the oldest teams at 29.57 on average. As a topic of interest, the Cavs were the oldest team in the East at 29.19 years average, while the Bucks were the youngest at 25.61. In the west, only the Clippers at 30.04 were older on average than the Spurs, effectively making the Spurs the second oldest team in the entire league. The youngest teams in the west are the Blazers at 24.82 and the Thunder at 24.65. https://www.reddit.com/r/nba/comment...ed_by_minutes/
The Spurs of next season will undoubtedly be younger bc minutes from Lee (aged 33) Dedmon and Simmons (28) will be replaced with minutes from Joff Lauvergne (aged 25), Bertans (24), Anderson (23). Minutes next season from Tony (35) are likely to go to Mills (29?, Dejounte (20 currently but will soon be 21), D.White (23) and Forbes (24)... so I'd say the Spurs of next season will generally really be younger. Hopefully, those guys take advantage of their opportunities and give us something to look forward to in their development.
The fallacy here is that younger must be better. It's usually the older teams that are in le contention, though. The Thunder being extremely young and still making the playoffs is an outlier.
Yup. It's been like that for a while, the older teams have seemed to always be the last team standing.
The folks who say we should have no older guys and just go primarily young don't realize that.
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