2024 Training Camp/Preseason News Thread

[Atl Spur]

I bet that Dejounte Murray trade thread has a ton of comedic gold in it same ��’s different days. Thousands of post spewing the same foolishness for attention. Bravo, you have our attention….speak!

[cutewizard]

[spurraider21]

Real shame they don’t have an extra slew of games between this meaningless slew of exhibition games and the regular season for Wemby to get into rhythm of things. They could put these games in place and call it something like the “prefix season” or “before season”. These kind of games would be super helpful for teams to prepare for the games that count. Wonder why the NBA doesn’t do this.

[spurraider21]

spurs 3pt shooting in 5 preseason games:

vs OKC - 17/43 (39.5%), buoyed by champagnie going 6-13, mamu going 3-4

vs ORL - 14/44 (31.8%), held afloat only by champ and mamu going 3-6 apiece

vs UTA - 13/35 (37.1%), paced by champagnie going 4-8, mamu 3-6

vs MIA - 9/30 (30%), Paul shooting 3/5 was only real standout

vs HOU - 9/34 (26.5%), Mamu 3-6 again


overall... we shot 62/186 (33.3%). obviously hurt some by Vassell's absence. this may be yet another ugly year where we might not even be playing horribly, but just cant make shots to keep up

[LeBowen]

overall... we shot 62/186 (33.3%). obviously hurt some by Vassell's absence. this may be yet another ugly year where we might not even be playing horribly, but just cant make shots to keep up

Elite shooters:
-

Good shooters:
CP3, Devin, Barnes, Champagnie

Questionable/strealy shooters:
Wemby, Tre, Keldon, Mamu, Branham

Bad shooters:
Wesley, Castle, Jeremy, Sidy, Collins

I'll give Champagnie benefit of the doubt that he can stay consistent, but we'll need those streaky guys to be more reliable.
Rotations will be really important because having two or more bad shooters in the lineup is where it usually goes downhill.
But we could really use an elite shooter who has gravity off the ball. Right now noone does. Maybe Devin when he gets hot.

[onechance87]

spurs 3pt shooting in 5 preseason games:

vs OKC - 17/43 (39.5%), buoyed by champagnie going 6-13, mamu going 3-4

vs ORL - 14/44 (31.8%), held afloat only by champ and mamu going 3-6 apiece

vs UTA - 13/35 (37.1%), paced by champagnie going 4-8, mamu 3-6

vs MIA - 9/30 (30%), Paul shooting 3/5 was only real standout

vs HOU - 9/34 (26.5%), Mamu 3-6 again


overall... we shot 62/186 (33.3%). obviously hurt some by Vassell's absence. this may be yet another ugly year where we might not even be playing horribly, but just cant make shots to keep up

We should of drafted knecht.Dude pretty much won the game by himself yesterday with his shooting.He did alot of that
in college as well.People didnt want to believe he could do that in the nba for sum reason.

[spurraider21]

Good shooters:
CP3, Devin, Barnes, Champagnie

Questionable/strealy shooters:
Wemby, Tre, Keldon, Mamu, Branham

Bad shooters:
Wesley, Castle, Jeremy, Sidy, Collins

I'll give Champagnie benefit of the doubt that he can stay consistent, but we'll need those streaky guys to be more reliable.
Rotations will be really important because having two or more bad shooters in the lineup is where it usually goes downhill.

for his career, vassell as actually at 36.9%, though his best shooting years have been his last 2 years (38.7% and 37.2%). hopefully that improvement, paired with the increased quality of his looks, will get him closer to the magic 40% number.

julian was our "specialist" last year other than mcdermott, and he only shot 36.5%, which is a good enough number for typical players, but not good enough for a specialist. he looked good for most of this preseason, but he is still clearly not a movement shooter (which Knecht already is, for instance). the best movement shooter we have right now is still vassell

the frustration with collins is that in the year leading up to his extension, he actually shot 37.4% from 3, and after the ASB and poodle trade, he was hitting over 39% of them on about 4.5 attempts per game. seems that was just a mirage though

[LeBowen]

for his career, vassell as actually at 36.9%, though his best shooting years have been his last 2 years (38.7% and 37.2%). hopefully that improvement, paired with the increased quality of his looks, will get him closer to the magic 40% number.

julian was our "specialist" last year other than mcdermott, and he only shot 36.5%, which is a good enough number for typical players, but not good enough for a specialist. he looked good for most of this preseason, but he is still clearly not a movement shooter (which Knecht already is, for instance). the best movement shooter we have right now is still vassell

That's why I edited my post and added that we don't have anyone in elite shooter category.
As I said, noone has off ball gravity that forces extra help and forces the defense to focus on them while they're moving around.

[spurraider21]

That's why I edited my post and added that we don't have anyone in elite shooter category.
As I said, noone has off ball gravity that forces extra help and forces the defense to focus on them while they're moving around.

yeah i think the best bet to emerge in that elite category is quite clearly devin. he's shown the ability to hit them off the dribble, side steps, step backs, leaning/falling, etc. hopefully more catch and shoot looks will be generated for him this year to bump his %. the ability to hit tough shots is great, but vassell was too dependent on making tough shots to get his production, which is why his overall efficiency has been fine but not quite good

[exstatic]

yeah i think the best bet to emerge in that elite category is quite clearly devin. he's shown the ability to hit them off the dribble, side steps, step backs, leaning/falling, etc. hopefully more catch and shoot looks will be generated for him this year to bump his %. the ability to hit tough shots is great, but vassell was too dependent on making tough shots to get his production, which is why his overall efficiency has been fine but not quite good

With a real PG, both Devin and Keldon could hit 40%. Keldons already done that one year.

[Pauleta14]

With a real PG, both Devin and Keldon could hit 40%. Keldons already done that one year.

Devin has a very decent % taking horrible shots So yeah 40% isn't a crazy bet to me

[SpursFan86]

Spurs exercised 4th year options on all of Sochan/Branham/Wesley per Orsborn.

[spurraider21]

Spurs exercised 4th year options on all of Sochan/Branham/Wesley per Orsborn.

ugh. figured you'd make branham/wesley earn it. if they play like what we've seen in preseason are these guys really going to be fetching 5+ mil on the open market anyway?

[jjspur]

Spurs exercised 4th year options on all of Sochan/Branham/Wesley per Orsborn.

Hope that's just a bad rumor. Two of three, but not all three.

[spurraider21]

Hope that's just a bad rumor. Two of three, but not all three.

nah, its legit

[timtonymanu]

Gotta love that continuity/culture .

One more year of Blake still not knowing how to score the basketball and Malaki sucking at everything while Body salivates over him.

[exstatic]

Spurs exercised 4th year options on all of Sochan/Branham/Wesley per Orsborn.

And the meltdown will now commence…

[timtonymanu]

It was gonna happen regardless. At least having Branham around guarantees we lose a load of games to get a high pick next year.

[scott]

Elite shooters:
-

Good shooters:
CP3, Devin, Barnes, Champagnie

Questionable/strealy shooters:
Wemby, Tre, Keldon, Mamu, Branham

Bad shooters:
Wesley, Castle, Jeremy, Sidy, Collins

I'll give Champagnie benefit of the doubt that he can stay consistent, but we'll need those streaky guys to be more reliable.
Rotations will be really important because having two or more bad shooters in the lineup is where it usually goes downhill.
But we could really use an elite shooter who has gravity off the ball. Right now noone does. Maybe Devin when he gets hot.

I don’t see what Branham has ever done to be considered anything but a bad shooter.

[BackHome]

That is cool but then again I am all in for Tanking so that kind of helps my cause

[scott]

nah, its legit

Brian Just keeps on Getting it Wright.

[BackHome]

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[John B]

nah, its legit

There’s really no surprise here

[dn0774]

Wait so what does exercising 4th year options on Blake/Branham have to do with tanking this year? Are we tanking next year too? oh god...

[dn0774]

There’s really no surprise here

Yea basically, you have do some repugnant off court stuff like flash randos your junk to not get your option picked up by this org...I kinda understand, just wondering how the numbers are going to work with multiple 1st rounders next year as well as a slew of 2nd rounders. Guessing more picks will be sold down the line.