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Love it. He's a hard worker, lunch pal kinda guy. Great motor and a fiirst one in last one out type of vet this team needs.
Best quote from him I’ve seen, after a W over UTA, Derrick is being interview, LK grabs the mic:
“I haven’t seen a white kill jazz like that since Ryan Gosling in La La Land.”
I think I’m in love
Love it. He's a hard worker, lunch pal kinda guy. Great motor and a fiirst one in last one out type of vet this team needs.
Last edited by Trill Clinton; 06-30-2025 at 06:44 PM.
I honestly thought we'd pay more of the MLE for him. Not a steal by any means, but not a crazy overpay.
Since this seems to be the OG thread, I'm gonna post my initial reaction here.
They’ll mostly stagger minutes, but Jumbo lineups with Wemby and Kornet will be intriguing and potentially useful vs big teams like OKC.
Probably the same people who thought Dillingham was the key to a championship squad
We're signing and drafting guys with great mothers. Good to see.
Kornet is a back up C with a crazy net rating like when we had Poeltl coming off the bench. 152 Ortg and 110 Drtg is crazy work. All advanced stats are positives and he’s a very good rim protector.
ah damn I meant motor. But yea, Luke's mama is cool too.
Great signing. Should be a good challenge for Wemby in practice. I think this takes Sochan out of center, which is much needed. Way to go Spurs!
10 is actually an underpay for Luke tbh. Boston most not have been willing to go to 3 years cause he could have gotten that from them.
People saying they wanted Capella must not have seen him recently in ATL. He has lost a step or 12. He might be ok in Houston where he is surrounded by athletic defenders but he would have been awful here on the court with trash like Devin and Keldon.
I like it. Definitely wouldn’t consider it some insane value like a couple of the other signings we’ve seen so far but it’s totally reasonable and he’ll fill a huge need of ours. Having Kornet in there for those non-Wemby minutes will be infinitely better than what we were dealing with last year.
Great le btw
Glad the Spurs got this done and the Celtics didn't find any team to dump the Simmons contract. Could be a slight overpay especially seeing all these 2 year 16-20M contracts but it was likely needed to outbid a few other teams. If the 4th year is a team option (where is that confirmed?), that is even better.
Oh yeah! I know the Spurs still have a lot of work to do but this is easily an A+ offseason even if they don’t do anything else.
Defense has been for way too long now. This signing helps address that along with the Sweeney hiring. I'll take it tbh.
A lot of the moves they've done in the off season and draft points on focusing on defense next year (KJ and Branham gone?). Hopefully the Spurs will be a top 5 defense next year.
Spurs ranked 26th and 25th in defensive rebounding and defensive rating last year. They were middle of the pack in 3 point shooting.
Defense and rebounding are a much bigger need than shooting especially at the backup C spot.
For me the best thing is that he's a high IQ player, we won't be seeing any of the awful decisions Collins and Bassey were making on offense.
4:1 assist turnover ratio this season, small sample, but still.
He's perfect at making the extra pass from short rolls and kicking it out to the right man after offensive rebounds.
Think people underestimate his defense tbh. When he plays, he's legitimately one of the better centers in the league at defense because he has great size, good athletic ability and his IQ is very good. He just knows ball.
How will a bigger role impact him? Will be fun to see. If he plays with Wemby, man that help defense is going to make the paint for spurs opponents. With two true paint protectors, running 3 guards works pretty well. Especially when two of them have arguably sf size.
Kornet will likely wear #23, as he wore it in high school and #40 is already taken by Barnes.
Zollins was the last player to wear that number. Hopefully our new White Center is much better than the last tbh.
It’s coming together baby. 6th seed in the playoffs at worst
Having either an elite or all-Universe rim protector (or both!!!!) on the court at all times should do wonders for the defense. Coach Sweeney be like
Most ST-er's takes are stuck in the Duncan era, tbh.
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