Agreed.
I was not too excited about this pick up but looking at the whole picture this man was meant for the Spurs. He plays a methodical brand of ball, he is big and can match up with most and won’t back down, he can play a little PG, he is humble and seems to have his head on straight, and he just got through winning the NCAA championship playing alongside Clingan. Meant to be.
Better be a starter over Tre ing Jones or Julian Champagnie. If he's the seventh man off the bench and Tre of all people is suddenly guaranteed a starting slot, we're rooting for a team coached by fools.
Avery Johnson said on the CBS draft show the other day that the Spurs see him in the mold of Dejounte. I think that probably forecloses any dealing to get the actually Dejounte back I would think.
If he puts in the work, there's no reason he can't develop into a respectable outside shooter. I love that the Spurs want to be big at point guard. If they can surround Wemby with lengthy defenders to contest 3s and shut down passing lanes, with Wemby controlling the paint, Spurs will be a defensive beast of a team.
It's big flaw.
I also wonder how his defense will translate.
To some extent I'm playing devil's advocate. I wonder where he would have fallen in last years draft.
Realistically, either him or Anthony Black at 6 after Wemby, BMiller, Scoot, Twin, Twin.
To be a homer, I think he will be better than Scoot just straightaway. Miller will be a better scorer but the rest of the game we'll see. The Twins are exceptional but even worse shooters, so may require a lot of building around.
That might close off a trade for a starting PG altogether, including Young and Garland.
Watching the post-draft interviews with Wright, he mentions that the team has been following Castle since high school and that they saw things there that he didn’t show in UConn because of their system, implying that he still has untapped upside. He also suggests that he believes he can improve on his shooting because he’s a hard worker, and that those types are the ones that usually manage to fix their weaknesses.
He's similar to Kawhi in having that bad jumpshot and not being charismatic but being hard workers. Hopefully it ends there.
Nobody believes that the Spurs have any interest in a point guard, do they? The last traditional pg the Spurs had was...
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...Strickland?
Really ing excited about this kid. I think he'll shoot better than his college stats suggest.
Ready for the Castle Wemby era!
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The Alien Castle
It’s actually not that big a flaw, and one of the more fixable ones a player can have. Defense is a to fix, even if you have the tools. See: Branham, Malaki. Really can’t fix size issues. Court vision can’t really be taught.
I’d pick him right after miller. His game is more complete, and his shot less broken than the twins or Scoot.
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