murray has torn ACL

[kobyz]

Obviously sucks. No getting around that.

Silver linings though?

-White, Mills, or Forbes starting for Murray makes it much easier to play DeRozan and Gay together at the wings. If Gasol can take threes at a decent clip, the spacing is actually quite nice. I'd say Forbes should start with DeRozan, Gay, Aldridge and Gasol. Bench should be Mills, White, Belinelli, Bertans and Poeltl.

-Walker may well get a legit chance at a rotation spot if he can get back into form. As far as I can tell, the rotation is filled now, there is no one able come in if someone misses games. Walker should be back in December or January, two months were the team is in full grind mode. If he can start getting minutes going into the RRT, he'll likely have a spot in the rotation going forward.

-The tea leaves suggest PATFO is looking at 2020 as another possible summer to use cap space. Like with Leonard and Green in 2015, PATFO may want to use DeJounte's cap hold to sign other guys before using Bird Rights to go over the cap. But Murray's injury provides a good opportunity to try to lock in up cheaply on an extension. Rich Paul is DeJounte's agent, and I don't think he would have extended for anything less than the max before this. Unless he showed out this year, he wasn't worth that. Maybe now that he missed out, they'll be more inclined to come to the table on something like $72M/4? The alternative is Murray being in full contract-year mode. That doesn't sound horrible.

The only silver lining is if patfo do the right thing and go all in for rj barrett

[BackHome]

Murray and Walker should get in touch with Tony Ferguson the dude tore his LCL had surgery and was break dancing 13 weeks latter. Not only that he fought and won in last weekends MMA co main event after tearing his LCL in April of this year.

I think both players need to stay away from traditional weightlifting need to get in touch with Tony and his team.

[Stabula]

If the Spurs tank and blow it up they might have a good team again in 8-12 years

[BackHome]

Well this is one way of tanking I am hoping this turns out the year David went down. For me I would stand pat throw White to the wolves maybe bring up Nick he played well in G League and knows the plays.

I hate to say this but you know the saying everything happens in threes - Am thinking as old as Fasol is he will get hurt sometime this season.

[baseline bum]

Another year of mediocrity while getting a high teen/low 20th pick. Woooooooooo!

I'm not seeing this as even a forty win team without Murray in a conference stacked with elite point guards.

[BackHome]

I think our draft pick will be in the 6 to 12 range.

They need to sit Walker out for the whole year and manage the out of his rehab. They need to build him up from bottom to top no weights just bands and cardio. The dude likes the ocean have him down half the year in the pool for rehab.

[Poolboy5623]

With Spurs luck we'd get the most lottery balls and still wind up in the teens

You're kidding right?

[weeks]

reminder: golden state added cousins in the offseason

[ginobilized]

There goes Pop’s legacy. Going to have to coach several seasons to break many more records.
Such a cursed season already. Feel horrible for Murray and WalkerIV.

Hope morale doesn’t dissipate entirely.

[SAGirl]

I think Rich Paul was going to guarantee that. But coming off an injury, things are different. Remember, teams can sign guys to extensions starting July 1, so Murray likely won't be completely healthy when they first go to the table. Paul has famously had clients bet on themselves before. But I'd have to believe that Noel's complete failure has tempered some of that fire. It's going to come down to how the injury is healing and what type of person Murray is when it comes down to risk versus reward.

If he’s offered an extension I expect it to be lowball and for Dejounte to decline. He can still bet on himself for the following season and that’s kind of what I expect fwiw. I’d be really surprised if he signs a lowball extension when he doesn’t need to make a decision about his future yet. If Spurs make a legit offer for him then even if not max I’d expect him to take it. It’s a lot of money to risk in that case.

[spurraider21]

derrick white has a great opportunity to disappoint us all

[dbestpro]

Perhaps this would be a good time to ask Manu to reconsider for one more year.

[SAGirl]

Well this is one way of tanking I am hoping this turns out the year David went down. For me I would stand pat throw White to the wolves maybe bring up Nick he played well in G League and knows the plays.

I hate to say this but you know the saying everything happens in threes - Am thinking as old as Fasol is he will get hurt sometime this season.

Not sure that it’s going to be Gasol but they’ll face other injuries this season. It’s unrealistic that during 82 games no one else gets hurt. Hopefully not this bad but there’s bound to be sore groins or calves or pulled fingers or bruises etc.

[Nathan89]

Well hopefully White is ready to shine tbh

[8FOR!3]

Perhaps this would be a good time to ask Manu to reconsider for one more year.

I mean I'd always welcome him on the team but idk if this really means that. We already planned on White being the backup PG, I'd assume Mills will move to start at PG but play off DeRozan.

Defensively we're losing Murray/Green/Kawhi/Anderson but offensively Murray/Anderson struggled (even if we expected a lot more from Murray this year) and it could be argued that Green has slowed down the offense a bit. Also Kawhi essentially didn't play. So offensively we should still be OK, but defensively well now we lost our best perimeter defender and over the course a season lost our 4 best defenders. Maybe this an opportunity for Lonnie Walker when he gets back from injury...

[DejountesACL]

Serves you MFs right for always wishing serious injuries on the warriors. Karma hit you this offseason big time.

[cd98]

I saw DeRozen handling the ball in all his highlights. Doesn’t he potentially end up as a primary ball handler if we aren’t playing uptempo? Kind of like a Manu role?

[TD 21]

This franchise can't catch a break.

They wanted to attempt to remain compe ive, so rather than sign or claim some fringe PG, they should look to make a trade. Obviously, don't mortgage the future, but something like Gasol and a 2nd for Teodosic, Marjanovic and Johnson, is worth a shot.

The Clippers have to waive 2 players anyway. Evans is a virtual lock, leaving Wallace, Thornwell (I believe they like both) and maybe Johnson. If they're willing to stretch Johnson, maybe they would Gasol instead, if it meant clearing up their logjam and getting a minor pick back.

Absent a trade, I'd start Mills for 2 reasons: 1) The bench needs White's play making more and 2) Mills and Forbes shouldn't be paired together.

Obviously sucks. No getting around that.

Silver linings though?

-White, Mills, or Forbes starting for Murray makes it much easier to play DeRozan and Gay together at the wings. If Gasol can take threes at a decent clip, the spacing is actually quite nice. I'd say Forbes should start with DeRozan, Gay, Aldridge and Gasol. Bench should be Mills, White, Belinelli, Bertans and Poeltl.

-Walker may well get a legit chance at a rotation spot if he can get back into form. As far as I can tell, the rotation is filled now, there is no one able come in if someone misses games. Walker should be back in December or January, two months were the team is in full grind mode. If he can start getting minutes going into the RRT, he'll likely have a spot in the rotation going forward.

-The tea leaves suggest PATFO is looking at 2020 as another possible summer to use cap space. Like with Leonard and Green in 2015, PATFO may want to use DeJounte's cap hold to sign other guys before using Bird Rights to go over the cap. But Murray's injury provides a good opportunity to try to lock in up cheaply on an extension. Rich Paul is DeJounte's agent, and I don't think he would have extended for anything less than the max before this. Unless he showed out this year, he wasn't worth that. Maybe now that he missed out, they'll be more inclined to come to the table on something like $72M/4? The alternative is Murray being in full contract-year mode. That doesn't sound horrible.

He'd have needed a quantum leap forward from Murray offensively to even conjure the thought, much less have the gall to request it.

[SAGirl]

Serves you MFs right for always wishing serious injuries on the warriors. Karma hit you this offseason big time.

WTF are you doing in a Spurs forum anyway. Karma is a you know. Right back at ya.

[Atl Spur]

Let Demar & White handle the ball..... White will be fine👍🏾

[ggoose25]

makes me wish we would've kept slo mo

[duncan2150]

Who

Obviously sucks. No getting around that.

Silver linings though?

-White, Mills, or Forbes starting for Murray makes it much easier to play DeRozan and Gay together at the wings. If Gasol can take threes at a decent clip, the spacing is actually quite nice. I'd say Forbes should start with DeRozan, Gay, Aldridge and Gasol. Bench should be Mills, White, Belinelli, Bertans and Poeltl.

-Walker may well get a legit chance at a rotation spot if he can get back into form. As far as I can tell, the rotation is filled now, there is no one able come in if someone misses games. Walker should be back in December or January, two months were the team is in full grind mode. If he can start getting minutes going into the RRT, he'll likely have a spot in the rotation going forward.

-The tea leaves suggest PATFO is looking at 2020 as another possible summer to use cap space. Like with Leonard and Green in 2015, PATFO may want to use DeJounte's cap hold to sign other guys before using Bird Rights to go over the cap. But Murray's injury provides a good opportunity to try to lock in up cheaply on an extension. Rich Paul is DeJounte's agent, and I don't think he would have extended for anything less than the max before this. Unless he showed out this year, he wasn't worth that. Maybe now that he missed out, they'll be more inclined to come to the table on something like $72M/4? The alternative is Murray being in full contract-year mode. That doesn't sound horrible.

who will bring the ball over with a forbes-DD-gay-aldridge-gasol starting five, imo White or mills will play with that unit and will be our pg’s. Forbes will play sg.

As you said before i hope we’ll had a real PG with some good ball handling Stills, we need one.

[Degoat]

Don’t know if spurs are just gonna ride with White and Mills but honestly I wouldn’t mind if the spurs traded for Cory Joseph at this point, I think he could be had easily in a trade.

[Poolboy5623]

All these "OMG the spurs cant catch a break" comments lol....did you guys just start watching the team this year??

[TimDunkem]

reminder: golden state added cousins in the offseason

The Spurs locked up Bryn Forbes. Checkmate, .