Game Thread: Spurs (22-26) @ Hornets (12-36) 2-7-2025 6 PM CST 2 AM RAiGA 2 PM HAWAII

[Mugen]

My man Sugus comparing this year's Spurs to the 2013-2014 squad, jesus f'n christ tbh

[scott]

2 games in and its clear to me Paul needs to come off the bench. I don't know if Mitch has the balls to do it, but frankly there's no reason to start him. It's redundant and just confuses the offense. I would start Castle in his place, and I would make sure that Devin was told the ball is not to stick when it comes to him. Paul is valuable to this team and has been really helpful but it makes zero sense to start him next to Fox. I don't get what the benefits to that are and it has been clear what the downsides are.

To me, it's less about who is start than how Mitch is rotating them. Even if they both start, there is really no reason to have periods (long periods at that) without one of them on the floor. Bring Castle in for CP3 around the 6min mark, run Fox the entire 1Q, then bring in Paul to rotate with Fox the rest of the way. You can bring them both back in together in the 4th if the situation dictates (which it did NOT last night, and CP3 immediately got hunted once we put him back in).

I get that maybe there is some politics behind starting CP3, and that's fine... but I don't know what that has to force us into stupid ass rotations after that. I never want to see Mitch's "Oops All Wings" lineup of Castle/Vassell/Champ/Keldon/Sochan again.