Gotcha, thats a bummer.
The games are fun (especially when they are free), but I'd feel a bit hassled if I planned to go to one and got turned away at the door.
Hopefully they've changed their system and if you reserve tickets, they actually hold them for you. Like the old Seinfeld bit...
Should we rename this thread Caboclo?
Which moron in the Spurs organization couldn't see the value of this player?
Here's the deal, Memphis still needs to lock up this player long term. So there's still a chance to steal him.
Too much size and athleticism on the perimeter.
Pretty much the whole NBA passed on him (including the Rockets who cut him instead of even a 2way), because he had literally shown NOTHING at that level. To single out the Spurs is the worst kind of Monday morning quarterbacking.
Let's see him actually SHOW something. He's still shooting crap from 3 in the big league, 28% on 4.5 attempts per game, and scoring a whopping 5.8p while hauling down 3.3 boards. The only thing that really jumps off the score sheet is 1.8 blocks.
I don't think Cunningham or Pondexter could have blocked Wiggins like that.
At least they don't shoot .318 FG% and .278 from 3.
How many blocks has Cunningham and Pondexter had (combined) this entire season?
While I agree that Bruno needs to show more, I do think PATFO has made a mistake by not having a roster spot to cycle 10-days. Although the odds of a hit on any individual 10 day are not good, we have pulled several useful players that way, and we need all the talent we can get...
Exactly. Spurs are in dire need of a defensive SF and Caboclo has four years since his draft to become ready to be in the NBA. You cannot fault a young player for not having the right support to work on fundamentals. It isn't like he comes from France where at a young age they learn the fundamentals.
Anyway, there's still hope that PATFO picks him up in the offseason.
14
13 Cunningham
1 Pondexter
Caboclo has 7 blocks in 4 games played.
Cunningham and Pondexter had ONE block this year.
Dante Cunningham is shooting 49.1% from 3. Pondexter is shooting 37.5%. Cablowjob is shooting 27.8%.
Oh, and you can't ing read, either. Together they have 14 blocks, not 1.
1 combined Block in 2019. That is 19 combined games when they both sniffed the court.
The other point is, Spurs have plenty of good shooters but very few defenders.
Thabeet is making a comeback, 7’3” with 7’6” wingspan and working on his 3’s. Anyone interested??
https://dailymemphian.com/article/26...uture-and-more
Does Bruno Caboclo have a future in Memphis?
Bruno Caboclo had a nice weekend for the Grizzlies, and if you don’t entirely know who that is, don’t feel bad. Mike Conley said he wasn’t quite sure what his new teammate’s name was until Caboclo’s Friday night debut.
A Brazilian forward who was a surprise first-round pick (20th overall) of the Toronto Raptors in the 2014 rookie draft, Caboclo became infamous for a crack made that night by ESPN analyst Fran Fraschilla, who said Caboclo was “two years away from being two years away.”
The notion that Caboclo was nowhere close to ready for the NBA proved accurate. Through four seasons with two franchises (the Raptors and the Sacramento Kings), Caboclo barely played at the NBA level (35 total games), and not well. He spent most of his time in the NBA’s developmental system. Cut loose heading into this summer, he got a training camp contract with the Houston Rockets but was released before the season began, heading to the Rockets’ G League team, the Rio Grande Valley Vipers.
There, Caboclo was having a nice season, becoming one of the league’s most impactful defenders and making 3-pointers at a greater than 40 percent clip. According to the G League-centric site Ridiculous Upside, Caboclo finally looked ready for a legitimate NBA shot.
The Grizzlies gave it to him with a 10-day contract signed last Thursday, and could it be that “two years away from being two years away” -- uttered four years ago -- will prove prophetic? Is Caboclo in fact now ready?
The early signs were pretty good. Caboclo played 8 minutes on Friday night against Sacramento, and while he missed all four of his shots, he had a steal, a block, and an eye-popping offensive rebound.
At 6-9 with a 7-foot-7 wingspan (no typo), Caboclo glides across the floor and covers a massive amount of space both horizontally and vertically. You can tell after watching him for only a few seconds of game time that he’s a plus athlete even by the exalted standards of the NBA. That’s what got him drafted as a teenager with very little track record. But until now, he hasn’t been a player.
On Saturday night, with wings Garrett Temple and Omri Casspi out with injuries and Justin Holiday picking up two early fouls, Caboclo was the Grizzlies’ first player off the bench. He used his long stride to get to the rim and draw a foul, making both free throws. He knocked down a corner three. He ended the half chasing down Tyreke Evans for a block. This bought him another look in the second half, and it got even better.
Caboclo finished the third quarter with a second made three, a tap rebound to set up a Shelvin Mack floater, a chase-down contest to influence a missed Pacers layup, and a big baseline chest-bump from Jackson. In the Grizzlies’ closing kick, the guy who’d been in Memphis for two days crashed a 3-pointer party thrown by Mike Conley and Marc Gasol, who’d been in Memphis more than a decade.
Caboclo finished with 11 points (3 of 4 from three), four boards, and a couple of blocks, and you can bet you’ll see him again on Monday night.
While the Grizzlies have some big player personnel misses on their recent resume, they’ve been pretty good at finding legit contributors out of the G League, with Jon Leuer (a trade acquisition, but one then playing mostly in the minors), James Johnson, Wayne Selden, and JaMychal Green all examples.
The clock could strike midnight on Caboclo any old time, but his combination of age and athletic gifts makes him a higher-ceiling lottery ticket than any of those relative success stories. The Grizzlies should sign him now, not just for the rest of this season but for next too, much like they did last spring with MarShon Brooks. Right?
Under normal cir stances, I’d say yes. But there are a couple of hurdles that are likely going to prevent that from happening for a little while.
One is the Grizzlies’ potential activity ahead of the Feb. 7 trade deadline. NBA rosters are a max of 15 players in-season, with Caboclo as the Grizzlies’ 15th man. In order to make a trade, you have to have roster spots into which you can take acquired players. Even if you plan to release a player for whom you’re trading, they have to go onto your roster first. If the Grizzlies trade Mike Conley or Marc Gasol, the size of each of those players' contracts makes it likely the Grizzlies will have to take in more players in a deal than they send out. The team will probably need the roster spot Caboclo currently inhabits in order to facilitate trades.
Even without that complication, the Grizzlies still wouldn’t sign Caboclo to a rest-of-season contract right now for luxury tax reasons. The team is close enough to the NBA’s luxury tax line that signing Caboclo – or anyone else – for the rest of the season today would put them over it. And that’s not going to happen. (You could blame the Justin Holiday trade, which put the team closer to the cap. Then again, it also opened up the roster spot Caboclo currently inhabits.)
While it’s not top of list – that would be trying to find productive deals for Conley and Gasol – one goal you can fairly assume the Grizzlies will have is to come out of the trade deadline with an open roster spot (or ability to easily create one) and a little bit of extra tax room. Caboclo will be eligible for a second 10-day contract when his first one ends, this coming weekend. But without the tax room, a rest-of-season signing probably wouldn’t be an option until well into March.
Caboclo looks like a find, but it won’t matter much if the Grizzlies can’t capitalize by signing him beyond this season.
Tbh if FO could steal him with a longer contract why not. He checks out what we need in the 3 and D position and more.
Honestly, he's got more upside than Stanley Johnson (who can't shoot).
Dejuan Blair should have just snapped his arm off and saved him the embarrassment that is his pro career.
Last edited by Spurs da champs; 02-01-2019 at 03:54 PM.
We missed out on Okafor I think he's doing good at Pel. Thabeet is an athletic big and could be a Capela.
NO WAY
Spurs playing the Nets tonight.
Have you ever actually watched Thabeet play? He is slow, real ing slow
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