Just earlier the season those kids were excited to be playing with The King. It turns out who actually just needs them for bargaining chips. Even the coach must think he’s the cancer who will cost them their jobs. Sad
This had been one of pop's best coaching seasons. The front office screw ups the last 3 or 4 years, however, are responsible for the current sad state of the team. This roster is just not good. DeMar is just not capable of being a star in the west, Forbes should be a back up, poetl and Pau aren't capable big men, Patty is washed ...
Warriors weren't a championship team either, but they constructed the team the right way until their young players built chemistry and got better... Just because you don't win immediately doesn't mean you keep a roster the way it is... Make moves to position yourself to be a championship team in the future
Yes there is people out there that believe you can tank and pick another Admiral or Tim....They are totally delusional.
Even Philly had to admit tanking didn't really work out without further trades for max players -Butler, Harris.
Or ask NY how did it go with Porz?
The only way to have a championship-level team in SA is to trade for the right players (the "Spurs material" phylosophy worked extremely well for 20 years).
Besides, making the playoffs as 6th seed with an honest chance on the first round, the year after nephew left and without Murray, it is very gratifying.
Which screws up? Did you have a better offer for nephew (and I don't like DDR, to be clear)? PO didn't, you could have called them with that offer...
What could you REALISTICALLY get on the market instead of Pau, Patty, Forbes? scrubs on rookie contracts or stat-padding veterans.
-65 days below .500 in the last 21 years....FO did, is doing, and will do the best job in the NBA: numbers don't lie.
They could have traded LMA when he wanted to be traded... They could have NOT given trash contracts to patty and Pau... They could have signed Derrick Rose... If what Boogie said was true, and no other team wanted him, that was a miss for the Spurs... Philly got Tobias Harris for cheap... We could have traded for someone that isn't DeRozan, etc
Green #35
Thomson #11
Everybody else except Curry #7 was acquired via trade or FA.
You don't need to tank, actually it doesn't even work otherwise Philly would have won last year and this year, instead they don't win . You need to attract FA, and trade well. Especially if you are in a non-attractive market.
What are you talking about? You want Cousins (cancer) for a year then you give him the max, or nothing because he already distroyed your team?
Derrick Rose, is that a joke (and he is broken again)?
Who was there instead of DDR? Who?
Philly paid a lot for 3 months rental of Harris (whom I love), they lost one of the best rookies, and they will have to give the max to Harris or lose him this summer.
Traded LMA? Why? For whom? Who was out there that woudl have played better than him last year and this year?
And don’t forget to add that Philly’s tank plan wouldn’t have even worked out if their first picks didn’t keep getting injured for the whole season each year! They had a ton of luck and STILL missed with Noel and Okafor. Tanking barely works..
It never does. You just need to make the right picks, and get a ton of luck.
It is enough to look at any of the past drafts, most of the first rounders didn't ever make a starting position, some were out of the NBA pretty soon.
You can pick Melo or Bosh or Wade only if somebody picks Milicic before you...
Or you can pick Fulk, have nothing in return for you sweet tanking, and watch somebody pick Tatum, or even Mitc at 13...
Who said anything about tanking? You're agreeing with me... The warriors made moves to build their team into a dynasty... They didn't stay pat simply because they knew they wouldn't win back then
You clearly don't get it... So what if you have to pay Tobias... That's how it works! ALL players are available... It's a freaking trade! No one knew Porzingis was available until he got traded... I'd ship BOTH LMA and DDR for PorZ (even though I think one of them would have been enough)... There are MANY players we can trade for... That's how trades work... Free agency isn't the only way to build your team... Signing old ass players to overpaid extensions isn't the way to build your future
As a spurs fan, u should never say tanking never works... Lmfao
Tim was a stroke of luck from the lottery. We could have had TMG or Van Horn.....I think we got lucky enough not to test basketball gods again
Van Horn and his terrible tube socks lol
Paragraphs people, paragraphs.
How was it a stroke of luck? We got the first seed because we tanked... That completely goes against what u said NEVER works
No, there were teams with worse record, we literally won the lottery. Just luck. If you call that 'working" then have fun at the casino.
Barry for JR Smith had the paperwork gone through in time.
The Spurs tanked to get into a better position to win the lottery.
Only The Celtics and Washington had worse records and Washington lost their 1st round pick for signing Juwan Howard. So the Spurs had the 2nd best chance by odds.
I watched that season, they were so bad that a few more games of post-2-major-injuries-50 wouldn't have made a difference. Even the few games he played that season he wasn't very good and they were still losing.
The Spurs tanked in 97 the same way Mavs are tanking now by not playing Porzingis.
It worked... We tanked to be in the lottery to be able to get as high a draft pick as possible... It literally worked...
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