So...now what?

[scott]

I get that and agree, I'm just responding to the idea that we should buy him out just because.

It doesn't help the Spurs at the moment to lose him, so listing it as "something we should do now" doesn't really make sense to me. The choice is all his.

Agreed. CP3 isn't going to impact winning without Wemby, especially if Fox also goes out, so it's not like we need to cut him to preserve the tank. He made add some value to our young guys (especially Castle) if he sticks around.

[Joseph Kony]

yeah this season is ed. shut Fox down, let CP3 move on, and just tank the rest of the year and hope for a top 3 pick.

if SA doesnt shut Fox down at the very least i hope he gives us a 50 point game or something to get excited about

[RC_Drunkford]

Tank. Play Castle heavy minutes. Let Branham and Wesley play a little to see if you get rid of both next season. Let Bassey start, he still has some development to do. Tell Fox to get surgery on his finger. Let CP3 and Barnes coach the young guys, but reduce their minutes. Sign a back up C to run line ups that make sense.

[scott]

Habibi, look. Were we honestly thinking that we'd make the play-in at 23-29, 3.5 games out of the 10th seed, and with 30 games left on the season? I dunno. You could say something about the experience in playing for something those last 30, but them's the breaks. With the way they had been playing since the start of the new year, and with having to integrate Fox, and with our coaching staff not understanding which starting line up to use, I'd put the odds of the play-in at sub 50%. All of which is to say, it's not like we are contenders who just entered into lost-season territory.

Wemby is 21. Castle is 20. Assume your 30% chance of a top-5 hits. Low probability scenario where we get Cooper, then I think we're more than ok with this outcome (assuming Wemby makes a full recovery). Low-to-mid probability scenario where we get an Edgecomb or a Bailey (again, assuming Wemby makes a full recovery), I think we are again, more than ok with the outcome. It would suck for this to happen - and - for us to slip in draft position, but let's not think about that for now.

There's a high probability that we shut D-Fox down soon. There's a high probability we play Castle heavy minutes. That will both bode will for next year - especially the Castle piece.

My final hope is that the FO has seen enough from the group to make meaningful changes in the summer. Cut branham and wesley. Trade Keldon and/or Main Character and/or Sochan. We've seen enough this year to be in a position to make a meaningful push for the playoffs (or more) next year. Onviously, it really sucks losing Wemby for the year. No sugar coating that. But, I don't think we had a great upside this year. The chance of one last tank yielding a high value asset could very well set us up to be even better than OKC. If memory serves, Shai had an injury that shut him down - and OKC ended up with Chet as a result. This could be similar.

Baba, assuming that Wemby full recovers, here are the things that I'm bummer we'll miss out on or may result because of this:

• Missed opportunity for Wemby/Fox/Castle to develop chemistry. This isn't the end of the world, but it would have been great to have this.
• Devin will spend the rest of the reason in a role we don't need him in, which he'll either perform great in (which will lead the FO and the fans to believe we should keep him) or he'll do poorly (which lead the FO and the fans to have a built in excuse to why we should keep him... we'll go into Year 6 of Devin and us "trying to figure out how he fits" like he's a rookie or some )
• More tank commander time for Keldon, a role in which he excels. Same thing as Devin, may lead us to get our hopes up yet again that Keldon is someone worth having on the team. (Hopefully in both this scenario and the Devin scenario the FO has already realized these guys gots to go)
• Another built in excuse for the FO and the coaching staff. I think the FO actually already bought themselves a little time with the Fox trade and how our draft positioning is shaping up... but now I'm afraid we're going to hear about how Mitch did such an amazing job under the cir stances this year and why we should all be excited about the 7-year contract we drop on him in the offseason.

Those are the things that depress me most, not so much the lost opportunity to fight for the Play-In.

[Ice009]

I've never really been all for tanking as we've had too many losing seasons and the players needed experience with something to play for. I feel they were going to make a really strong push to the end the season, but not much we can do about it now expect play hard and see what happens. I truly believe that '96/'97 team got Tim Duncan because they played hard. They played defense and they played tough. I don't believe they tanked on purpose (they just did what is best for their players), as the players that played, I think tried hard, but they just didn't have the talent. I felt bad for Dominique as he signed with the team for a chance to win. I do not want to see this team play porous defense and be traffic cones out there the remainder of the season. If we lose games we lose games, but they better ing play hard.

[baseline bum]

We're going to go back to giving 120 a night on defense. Incoming 15 game losing streak.

I mean that's the biggest thing to root for. Thank ing god the Spurs didn't trade their 2025 pick.

[Guru of Nothing]

Pray for rebounds.

[baseline bum]

I've never really been all for tanking as we've had too many losing seasons and the players needed experience with something to play for. I feel they were going to make a really strong push to the end the season, but not much we can do about it now expect play hard and see what happens. I truly believe that '96/'97 team got Tim Duncan because they played hard. They played defense and they played tough. I do not want to see this team play porous defense and be traffic cones out there the remainder of the season. If we lose games we lose games, but they better ing play hard.

Castle is the only player on this team who is very likely to be here in three years, assuming Wemby comes back strong next season. I don't give a about developing Vassell and Keldon for anything other than trade value. The Spurs got the pick for Tim because they won a lottery, there is no karma in the world.

[baseline bum]

Pray for rebounds.

I'm with it, ask sky daddy but just don't go sign guys who will actually get those rebounds and our tank up.

[thiste]

Let Fox have his surgery.

[Spurs Homer]

Sochan - PG
Branham - G
Vassell - F
Keldon - F
Biyombo - C

i mean - who is the ing jinx? (first Pop - now wemby???)
CP3?

Castle?

[Guru of Nothing]

1. Maximize Castle's development.
2. B Wright puts in 20 hour days to line up off-season deals




3. De'Aaron Fox - get that surgery
4. Sochan takes 10 3-point attempts per game - brute force your way into my heart, Jeremy.
5. Prioritize Wesley over Branham and KJ - I still believe (I'd be okay with juicing KJ and Branham trade value instead, but let's be real about that possibility).

[sfernald]

Cry into our cereal...

[TimDunkem]

^Dumb take.

[baseline bum]

^Dumb take.

He's an OKC troll

[cutewizard]

Still in shock

This is crazy

[cutewizard]

Hope Wemby makes a full recovery

[eric365]

Make sure wemby use all this time on Shooting, Core strength, foot work and eveything he is allowed to train
He has 7 months to train without any pressure on whatever he want

[rjv]

stat padding for Castle so he can secure the ROTY award.

[Frenchfred]

Make sure wemby use all this time on Shooting, Core strength, foot work and eveything he is allowed to train
He has 7 months to train without any pressure on whatever he want

not if he needs surgery on his shoulder

[BacktoBasics]

Maybe Paul gets waived but he was about minutes over rings and I doubt that’s changed. He’s also been a valuable mentor. I expect him to finish the season on the roster.

[KobesAchilles]

All we can do is pray

[paperboy77]

Well this ing sux. Hope the kid makes a full recovery although it's probably a 50/50 unfortunately. Also sux it was gonna be Wemby VS Bol Bol today. That really sux.

Oh well. Fox needs to go ahead and have his surgery and Spurs need to go all out tank mode. (Canceling $124/mo FUBO subscription as we speak.)

[spurraider21]

cancelled my league pass ... have until march 17 before i figure out if i want to re-up or anything like that

[Bruno]

A little something Spurs could do is to do sign 1 or 2 players with a non-guaranteed salary for next season.

This kind of contracts is helpful when it comes to match salaries in trades because these players trade value is their guaranteed salary. Spurs would just need to increase their guarantee to the amount that makes the trade works.