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San Antonio Spurs: D+
We've learned the hard way not to doubt the Spurs, but their offseason is difficult to understand. After Pau Gasol opted out, San Antonio had the ability to clear significant cap space. Instead, the Spurs operated over the cap and re-signed Gasol to a three-year, $49 million contract that looks like a significant overpay that cuts deeply into next summer's cap space.
In addition to having less future flexibility, San Antonio doesn't look like a better team now. While adding Rudy Gay could give the Spurs more ability to play Kawhi Leonard at power forward in small lineups, provided Gay recovers from a ruptured Achilles, San Antonio lost a capable wing defender in Jonathon Simmons. The Spurs are counting on Gay and rookie Brandon Paul to fill that role.
San Antonio also did not address point guard aside from re-signing Patty Mills, meaning either Dejounte Murray or rookie Derrick White will need to play rotation minutes until Tony Parker returns midseason. Neither was effective in summer league play.
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We'll be fine. Back-to-back trips to the WCF incoming, tbh.
Pelton is usally intellectually dishonest with player evaluation, but he hit the nail on the coffin here.
Of course the Media are drooling over the spurs and Pop and RC "Smarts".
Watch Leonard carry all these scrubs only for Poop and RC to win coach of the year and Executive of the year...While leonard averages 27 and the next best scoring payer is at 17 and 10
He's overrating Simmons as a positive impact player.
Where's the drooling? Please substantiate.
Pelton is a ing chode, though.
It was a terrible off-season. The Spurs will still be a good team bc of Kawhi but they didn't do enough to improve. Until we see how Rudy is playing and Tony comes back from that injury we don't really know how they will look in April so this is a lot of speculation... but they already relied on too many aging guys and figure now to have them for more years at a premium price. We can't hardly call that a great off-season
They paid a 38 year old 32 million for two years.
Its hard to argue with them. They have arguably the best player in the league, hands down best 2-way, and they spend the offseason on Ostrich. It defies logic.
This team didn't improve and gave out garbage contracts to gasol and to a lesser extent mills, so I agree
I obviously hope I'm wrong and this team exceeds my expectation but I doubt it
D+ is being generous.
How would you grade the Gasol and Mills deals, my man?
Hard to argue with that grade. The Spurs WERE the biggest threat to GS, last season, and were setup to be that team again this offseason. However, after this summers events it seems they've gone back a step or two. Sad.
Would be nice for once to have an insider reporter to get a better understanding of these summer moves. Does Jeff McDonald have any info about it?
F--
And the worst part is Pau being the money that he is, will come back at age 40 to collect his 16M, destroying the Spurs flexibility in year three as well.
This team was quite good last season . It's so silly that people think we had this horrible off season because we didn't get any big named players.
A simple change in philosophy could be enough to see significant improvement (i.e. small ball)
He's not the only one to give the Spurs the worst grade in the West. After listening to several other NBA podcasts, reading multiple off-season grades, and simply observing what most here have said, it seems to me that most share the same opinion. Me included.
The Spurs didn't accomplish any of their goals whether that be landing an impact FA, or maintaining flexibility going into next summer. They lost depth (no matter what your opinion on guys like Simmons or Dedmon are), defensive versatility, made a poor draft pick, and handed out bad contracts.
How that translates into wins and losses remains to be seen. Maybe they're still a great team, or maybe not, but let's not pretend that the Spurs had a good or even decent off-season. There's no doubt that the Spurs' off-season was one of worst, if not the worst, in the West. Kawhi is the sole reason why this team isn't a likely bottom feeder right now.
I'd give them a D+ at best. C- if Gay isn't playing on one leg next year.
Last edited by TimDunkem; 08-02-2017 at 03:53 PM.
Gotta love the last line."neither was effective in the summer league" like that is indicative of what'll happen in the reg season
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Last edited by TimDunkem; 08-02-2017 at 03:50 PM. Reason: Accidental repost
D+ was quite generous. Kawhi is wasting the prime years of his career. I think we need new blood in the front office, the hunger just isn't there anymore for PATFO.
Kyle Anderson and Jonathon Simmons were walking proof of that.
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