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Welcome to the Spurs, Stephon. Liked what I saw of him in the NCAA Tourney and has good size. He says he wants to be a star while being a team oriented guy. We’ll see and I look forward to it!
Welcome to the Spurs, Stephon. Liked what I saw of him in the NCAA Tourney and has good size. He says he wants to be a star while being a team oriented guy. We’ll see and I look forward to it!
Welcome to the Spurs, Stephon. Liked what I saw of him in the NCAA Tourney and has good size. He says he wants to be a star while being a team oriented guy. We’ll see and I look forward to it!
Seriously, if the dude gets a jump shot, he will be a stud. He's good to great at everything else. Just need to get Garland and we'll have our starting backcourt for a long time to come.
Super pumped we got Castle, if he develops a jumper he’ll be the best from this class Imo
Don't want Garland. We had a cheaper, potentially better, player in our hand and we let him go. Now they better double down on big guards. I want to build the longest team in the league.
Probably not an NBA team as close to the Spurs in make-up and mentality as UConn.
People sweating the PG stuff -- and he can play PG -- he mentions playing off-ball here. They're going to use him in all kinds of ways.
Never know with these clowns; people here in ATL know how great he is
Yeah, I’d rather the Spurs try to get Lauri Markannen.
Stephon was the #9 recruit in the country. He could have written any ticket he wanted. Dozens of coaches would have just put the ball in his hands and said “do your thing.”
He chose a reduced role to win.
Do you understand Danny Ainge at all? He will never take less than the established market price, which has been set at 5 FRPs.
Forget about Markannen..
I'm celebrating tonight, Stephon Castle is a San Antonio Spur! Welcome to SA.
Castle took a limiting role at UCONN so people are looking at highlights of a restrained version of Castle but his HS tapes show him very comfortable in a primary ball handler and scoring role.
I think Spurs fans are going to be pleased.
Ainge also has 15 FRPs in the next 6 drafts.
He'll definitely want an established player with all-star upside.
Unless Markkanen refuses to extend, we're not getting him.
good thing is we just obtained 2 so we just need 3 more
only watched a few seconds of him but neat
spurs are over trae young?
As mentioned several times in the broadcast, UConn had a very good defense while Castle was briefly hurt. Once he got up and running, their defense was elite.
The potential with him and Wemby is tremendous. These are the lynchpins you dream of. This is the defensive guard I was desperate to get last draft (post-Wemby). He'll take work, but what's phenomenal is that he's already played high-level basketball. He won't have a lot to learn beyond the ins and outs of the NBA itself.
Of course there's personnel and rotations to work out, but this was the best pick in the draft and if he gets his shot in order, we probably have the steal of this weak draft, one of the few star players.
interesting tidbit
I'm sure we'll post more about this as we go, but Castle was so important as the Huskies' POA defender, that at times UConn's perimeter defenders didn't always come help even when Castle was beat on a screen; they knew he could recover and still restrict the player. Obviously this will be more challenging as the players now are exceptional, but a strong defender likes this allows Wembanyama to stay home even more and cover other areas of the court.
Bucks 2.0
Can't deny major similarities in Castle-Devin-Wemby and Jrue-Middleton-Giannis trios.
If Castle and Devin live up to their potential, that is.
Cautiously optimistic on the pick. I know this draft was a minefield but I had him edging out Sheppard for my first choice prospect on the board so glad to get him.
When Castle was asked what defensive assignment he is looking forward to the most, he said Luka Doncic. You have to appreciate the moxy to want to guard the best offensive player in the league. Luka has a physical and experience advantage against Steph and he doesn’t care. If he fulfills his defensive expectation, we are good. If he adds a reliable jumper and 3, lookout!
Hopefully he turns into Nephew 2.0 and comes right away shooting beans. There are hints of him having the same mental ... let's say "focus" as Nephew, if you know what I mean, tbh.
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