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I'm not educated enough to comment on Hill but his activity on D really stands out. He can cause havoc on that end. Great offensive game tonight too. Great signs!
But he could have played on the big squad, he was good enough. Don't tell me you don't remember the nightly disasters of Mills-Forbes on defense or when Mills was logging over 30 minutes a game, which even his defenders would probably concede is too much for his style of play.
I'll emphasize: he was already a mature 23 year old, that's why he dominated. He was already a player
The prospects who get the most out of the g-league are the very young or inexperienced, like Murray and Cory Joseph, guys who only had one year of college and needed lots of development, both on and off the court. Or even guys who were being asked to develop completely different skills than they had, like Forbes playing point guard in the g-league.
I'm not educated enough to comment on Hill but his activity on D really stands out. He can cause havoc on that end. Great offensive game tonight too. Great signs!
He wasn’t needed last year—we had Murray, Tp and Manu. I remember watching him last year the few times he got some run—he looked lost—overwhelmed, tbh.
He wasn't that good earlier in the year. It's starting to click for him now. There's no reason to think it would have clicked last year.
Watched a good amount of White with the Austin Spurs last year. Really great to see him growing as a player in the big leagues.
The main reasons are 20/20 hindsight and an agenda based on criticism.
I didn't say they were good reasons...
gotto love the wankers on this site, continue to compare white to hill
when u clowns should be comparing him to your favorite murry, who looks like a draft busts....
Spurt = the biggest dumb ass on st tbh. of an achievement
The question is can he be (or is he already) better than Murray? And will one of them be forced to be a bench player?
I don’t think it is Murray Vs White I think Pop will have them play together and you will see reduced minutes for Mills and Forbes.
Obviously, someone of the trio of Murray, White and Walker is going to be a 6th man, but is better to have three solid prospects at the guard spots. Unlike a few years ago when Tony and Manu were older, aging and the team had no young, quality successors to their spots.
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Bruh, you preemptively triggered AF by me in every thread.
I agree. I'm just wondering which one is off the bench.
My guess would be LW4. He’s the least developed, and would likely be happy just to be on the big squad.
Once upon a time, in the mid eighties, the Detroit Pistons drafted a PG named Joe Dumars. The thing is, they already had an All NBA PG named Isaiah Thomas. They decided to play them together, and it seemed to work out OK.
The End.
The only problem with playing Murray with White is that you get lots of Mills and Forbes playing together, which is a big no no for us.
Not with Murray, and White getting 28-32 mpg and Lonnie having a role too.
Mills will likely be demoted like Pau has been with Dejounte, White, Lonnie, and Forbes all healthy.
Only so many minutes.
From my view Hill is a guy who generally can't set the pace of a team, but he's good enough that people keep looking for him to fill that role. He's also a pretty good ball handler, but lacks the sense of spacing and timing to be a full time starting point guard. His size the that he is a bit small for some 2 guard match ups especially if the team's scheme is to have 2's and 3's do a lot of switching. He would actually work really well next to Murray for a couple of years, or another player who is capable of handling the ball a decent amount. The LeBron experience was eh, partially because of the whole half season team on the fly thing and partially because LeBron had become fairly ball dominant since about 2014. Much like a late career Kobe where you really looked at any given possession you said sure Bryant can have that shot. You look at any given possession with LeB on and having him prob seems fine, but it is very disruptive for many other players to essentially be a spectator on 60 to 70%of possessions.
With the injuries we had in the past I am glad we have have depth now. As far as next year if they all stay healthy most minutes will go to in this order White, Murray, Forbes , Mills, Walker. I think Mill will get 10 mpg, Forbes 15mpg , and I think Walker will still be in G League but get called up a lot more.
Next year, which is what we are talking about, it will be Forbes and Lonnie.
Murray better be shooting 1000 3’s a day tbh, because Demar and LMA offense is possible only because they’re surrounded by deadly 3pt shooters.
I like the potential of going small with Lonnie, Murray, and White playing with DD and LMA> I think they would cause chaos for other teams and be a great fast break team. (Asssuming of course that Walker develops as hoped and Murray returns physically able to play as well as he did.)
Might be fun to watch if Pop would try it.
Yeah, Murray's fit next to Aldridge and DeRozan is the biggest elephant in the room for next season.
Murray doesn't need to be a 40% 3pt shooter. Shooting 36% while not ing up the offense by passing up wide open shots or ing up the spacing by staying near the basket instead of the 3pt line is good enough.
I think Walker next season then it'll be a toss up between he and White. Either way the Spurs could have an elite 6th man by next season or the following...
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