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Totally overrating Yabusele. He is a third stringer for a reason. The Spurs need some shooting to surround Victor. The second unit needs some creators. Yabu, Sochan, Kornet, Carter Bryant, and Harper don't seem like such a bad unit.
Gotcha. Just saw that on my Google AI search. In that case there won’t be much MLE left over.
So the best the Spurs can give Yabu is the full BAE which is maxed at 2 years in length so 2/$10.5M. He can prob get more than that elsewhere I think. But we shall see.
Totally overrating Yabusele. He is a third stringer for a reason. The Spurs need some shooting to surround Victor. The second unit needs some creators. Yabu, Sochan, Kornet, Carter Bryant, and Harper don't seem like such a bad unit.
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I don’t think Yabu is that great fwiw but also don’t think HB is that great either outside of his shooting. Really poor rebounder and mediocre defensively.
Regarding Yabusele, I think Denver is in play and can beat any Spurs offer. To be honest, Denver is probably a better situation. They are contenders.
This current Spurs roster is weird. Not sure if they plan on fixing it either.
Barnes in the starting lineup is going to make it hard to be better than mediocre. He just doesn't rebound or defend well enough. Every minute with him is just another hard minute for Wemby, I can believe the rumors if him not wanting to play center as much
I hope this community friendship nonsense isn't the basket barrier to including Barnes in a trade. It's just as stupid way to approach and handle a player who is already expiring and could be gone in a year anyway.
How much money do we have left guys?
that‘s what happens when you don’t overpay mediocre role player just because of „culture“
Are we one move away from being stacked???/
We actually are.
Primary ballhandlers:
Fox/Harper
Point of attack defenders:
Castle/Sochan
Rim protectors:
Wemby/Kornet
Off the ball wings:
(one move away), Barnes, Champagnie, Bryant
That one move would be trading Devin+Keldon for a high end starter.
Then we can also add Yabusele in free agency.
Adding Yabusele kind of makes no sense if Vassell, Keldon, Barnes, Champagnie, Bryant and Sochan are all expected to get SF/PF minutes. Someone has to go.
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Thanks Sir!
Our team now has some tools to work with, compared to the Great Drought years, haha.....
What a turnaround....
With 2 roster spots left I think the spurs should bring in one more veteran. I think they should leave the last spot open in case someone impresses in Summer league or for potential buy outs. I prefer a shooter but doubling down on big would also make sense. This is the order I would be pursuing remaining free agents:
Duncan Robinson - Shooter
Amir Coffey - Shooter
Caleb Houston - Shooter
Eric Gordon - Shooter
Guerschon Yabusele - Big
Mo Wagner- Big
Doug McDermott - shooter
Larry Nance Jr. - Bench depth
Brandon Boston Jr. - Bench depth
Otherwise just choose between Bassey and Mamu.
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Thanks Sir, i was just about to ask about this one......
They almost always leave the 15th spot open
Vassell and Keldon and picks for Andrew Wiggins and Duncan Robinson let’s gooo
You have my attention..
I thought Duncan Robinson was just an idiot for opting out of his $20 million last year of his contract. Only $10 million was guaranteed so he bet on himself thinking he could get $10 million a year somewhere else. I don’t dislike him but I don’t see why we would sign him other than a vet presence. Clearly he still wants to play and be a defensive traffic cone for some team. He is a progress stopper for one of the younger players. I prefer minutes going to the young wings we have.
What do we think of Precious Achuwa for front court depth? Just realized he’s a UFA.
Picks? I'm not sure I'd do that trade even without any picks involved.
We don't need lateral moves, we need to find a better fit instead of those two.
Use of the many second rounders that the spurs have - goal would be to have better size while moving off contracts a year earlier
I think Wiggins and DR are a better fit with the rest of our roster and their contracts can end earlier. Are there other deal that I'd prefer out there? Sure, but this is better than what we currently have.
But Wiggins isn't the size we need, imo.
If we assume Fox/Castle/Harper are ballhandles and Wemby/Kornet are rim protectors, that leaves us with 96 minutes for two off the ball wing positions.
Devin can get some guard minutes, but that's about it.
We have Devin, Barnes, Keldon, Jeremy, Champagnie who who are all rotation players, but noone really stands out.
We need addition by subtraction because if they're all on the roster on the opening night, you know noone other than maybe Champagnie will get DNPs. And even that would be really unfair since he's definitely more valuable than Keldon and enables his teammates better than Devin or Sochan.
We're at the stage where I'd send a second rounder or two to the Wizards or Nets just so they take Keldon, he's a detriment in every aspect.
I think Devin should also go, but I can understand if the front office still has hopes for him. But there's no hope for Keldon.
So let’s say this is pretty much the end of the offseason. We add 1-2 more vet min guys (presumably who won’t get more than 10 mpg) + give Minix/Ingram 2-way deals and call it a day. Let’s ignore potential Fox/Soxhan extensions for now…
How would you guys grade the offseason? It would feel pretty bittersweet to me. On one hand, Harper and Bryant in the draft + Kornet in FA are all A+ moves that I’m very excited about. But it just feels so gross bringing back every single one of Vassell/Keldon/Sochan/Barnes/Wesley/Branham. I never seriously expected them to get rid of the majority of those guys in one offseason (lol RC_Drunkford ) but I really wanted us to at least mix it up some.
I’d probably go with a B. All in all I really don’t think we can complain much: we practically didn’t get to see any of Fox/Wemby so I get that things might look different in the context of adding those 2 guys when they’re healthy. I’d just really like to see the Spurs have a little shorter of a leash with guys who are clearly flawed and don’t show much improvement for multiple years.
Devin at the 3 instead of Castle is going to be a disaster on defense. He has spent his entire career showing that he is not big enough strong enough or athletic enough to not only play defense at the 3 but he also can't generate any offense against them except long 2's.
Castle loses all his size strength athleticism advantages at the 3 but he has to play it if Devin is starting. He has to play the 2
Logicaly Champ should start at the 3 but the next logical thing the Spurs do will be the first one in a long time so not holding my breath.
Why are people so high on Yabusele? He can shoot but is also a complete sieve on defense. Due to his size he can pretty much only play power forward. 76ers were awful when he wasn't on the floor and a little less awful when he was. I guess the thinking is he is always paired with Kornet or Victor to protect him defensively?
As a stand alone offseason it would be fine as Kornet is exactly what we need. However several teams in the West have gotten significantly better. Wemby, Fox, and Harper are going to have to be great together to close the gap, but that was always going to be the case. I had the Spurs penciled in for a playoff spot, but really the only spot up for grabs might be the Warriors and that's only if they don't get Hartford or some other decent big.
The objective of the off season is not to just make your team better but make your team better than other teams on paper. Spurs most certainly haven't done the second part.
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