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    The silver lining is the Spurs played some serious basketball against a really good team B2B. The veteran team won at the OT. Again being able to close the game for a young team. I can try to nitpick some, CP3 and Sochan could’ve scored more. More Bassey/Mamu on Jokic to give him different looks. Mamu actually had good games against him in the past. And maybe pick your poison. If they’re going to let Jokic score 46 pts, then don’t let other players erupt like Porter.

    But again, great B2B games against a very good team. It felt like a 2-game series so hopefully the Spurs can study the film and learn what they can improve on. GSG!

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    People are expecting too much from Vassell. Like he is supposed to be a sure thing consistent top all star scoring number two option guard. He was drafted outside the top 10 at 11 so there was doubt in his overall skill level.

    He's doing as well or even better than expected.

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    Man, how great is Jokic? He makes the conscious decision to start shooting more 3s this year and he's hitting them at a 47.3% clip... incredible.
    He's a smart player. He tapped several rebounds away from the spurs, towards his teammates.

    The rest of the Denver roster isn't any better than the Spurs roster without Wemby. The Spurs and Denver are close except the slight edge goes to Denver because Jokic is a little better than Wemby.

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    People are expecting too much from Vassell. Like he is supposed to be a sure thing consistent top all star scoring number two option guard. He was drafted outside the top 10 at 11 so there was doubt in his overall skill level.

    He's doing as well or even better than expected.
    Hes our highest paid player on the team.Wtf does being drafted at 11 have to do with anything?...Jokic was drafted in the second round ffs

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    Hes our highest paid player on the team.Wtf does being drafted at 11 have to do with anything?...Jokic was drafted in the second round ffs
    That's on the spurs fo if he's the highest player but this roster is full of players on rookie contracts or an over the hill player in Paul or role players like Barnes or Johnson.

    Higher draft picks are expected to bring back a higher return. Of course there are several exceptions but generally your top players in the league are the higher draft picks.

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    your ok with our higest paid player playing like a role player?...Cp3 is 40 years old and is expected to have off games and struggle.
    Having vassell playing ok basketball is not expected.He supposed to be our second star and has not been.
    I agree that overall Vassell hasn’t been good so far. But hes doing the other things besides shooting much better last few games and ultimately we need him defending, rebounding and playing winning basketball for him to leap and hes showing a good focus and effort on all the other things.

    But ya, he’s obviously struggling compared to last year and hoping it’s just due to rust from injury etc….just noting the trend of his play lately. First 12-14 games were pretty rough,but last few hes been better all around IMO

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    The greatest thing about Jokic is that he doesn't even think basketball is all that fun. I can't get over the irony.
    That's just a misconception pushed by mainstream media.

    Jokic loves basketball, but hates the NBA.
    NBA as in all the nonsense that goes on outside of those 48 (or 53) minutes on the court.
    If you watch some of his interviews, he's really passionate about talking actual basketball, but doesn't care about those dumb, vanilla questions and narratives.
    He just wants to play the game and not interact with anyone outside of his teammates and coaching staff before or after it.

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    I agree that overall Vassell hasn’t been good so far. But hes doing the other things besides shooting much better last few games and ultimately we need him defending, rebounding and playing winning basketball for him to leap and hes showing a good focus and effort on all the other things.

    But ya, he’s obviously struggling compared to last year and hoping it’s just due to rust from injury etc….just noting the trend of his play lately. First 12-14 games were pretty rough,but last few hes been better all around IMO
    Yep, he's improved the last couple of games.

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    Come get this laughing stock of a man ambchang and expose him again for having no deep meaning behind his takes and have him blame everyone else for “lacking nuance”
    Sorry Dejounte my man, there really isn’t anything I can say because the comment was void of content that it meant nothing.

    The spurs have improved immensely from last year on both offence and defence. On offence I can say it is due to having a full time actual PG running actual sets it the team has really improved the defence this year. It’s no where close to what they can be as having wemby in the middle should single-handedly elevate the team to a top 10 offence. There are still issues with defensive schemes (I felt we are defending the 3 pt line much better this year but have to look up the numbers to verify) but we should take advantage of having wemby to pressure the ball and create more turnovers, and also crashing the offensive boards more consistently when we have wemby as a one man fast break stopper. It could put too much strain on wemby but it could be deployed in spurts. Another way is to have bassey actually learn those damned plays and take on the paint patroller role.

    On offence I really don’t know, sochans outside shot progression is a huge disappointment so far but it may be because his development in other areas, which was quite good. He can’t play with castle because of it as many have pointed out but I think with three other shooters and wemby it would be a great offense. With wemby being the focal point of the offense, three shooters opening up the lane and sochan cutting and getting offensive boards it would be a hard offence to stop. Only we don’t have three shooters and no way in sochan deserves to have an offense designed around him.

    Let’s hope and pray both castle and sochan can shoot 1000 jumpers everyday this summer and then into somewhat average shooters. They can’t both play a big role on the team and while sochan is an uncommon archetype castle is way more valuable.

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    That's just a misconception pushed by mainstream media.

    Jokic loves basketball, but hates the NBA.
    NBA as in all the nonsense that goes on outside of those 48 (or 53) minutes on the court.
    If you watch some of his interviews, he's really passionate about talking actual basketball, but doesn't care about those dumb, vanilla questions and narratives.
    He just wants to play the game and not interact with anyone outside of his teammates and coaching staff before or after it.
    Ah, this makes sense. Pretty similar to TD, really. The "he'd rather be racing his horses" meme/narrative is pretty funny though.

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    we lost cause of Zach "Foul Machine" Collins' dumbass foul on the other end of the court which later got the Nuggets in the bonus and Jokic to the line

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