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Seems it’s a team option in the last year too
Good signing. Think he’ll get a chance to dust off his 3 point shot.
Seems it’s a team option in the last year too
He's got some great playoff experience too. Ups his game there.
Big time Signing! This is what I’ve been waiting for all offseason. Spurs needed a lunch pail guy! Rebounding will definitely be improved. Defense will be improved. Glue guy that will make the right plays on offense. Teams can’t bully the Spurs anymore. Period
Yihaaaaaaaaa
Other jersey numbers Kornet has worn as a pro:
#2 (with NYK and CHI) - that's not going to work
#40 (BOS) - currently taken by Barnes
#12 (CLE) - retired
#35 (MIL) - maybe this will be the one.
Would love to see this Korndog go with something funky that we haven't seen something before for the Spurs. Numbers never worn before in Silver & Black: 37 - 39, 46 - 49, 51, 56 - 76, 78 - 89, 91 - 99
Maybe he'll take 35, the number he had in Milwaukee.
With the reported team option on the last year, it's a fine contract. It is just weird that Luke Kornet is getting a bigger contract than Lopez and Capela but it's true that both are showing real sign of slowing down.
As said above, it will be interesting to see what will happen with his 3 point shooting:
- Between 2017 and 2019, Kornet was a really good 3 point shooting.
- Between 2019 and 2022, he kept shooting but his percentages dropped significantly (below 30%).
- Since 2022, he has stopped shooting 3's.
Will Spurs ask him to shoot 3's again because they need it way more that Boston needed it? Will Kornet be able to do it effectively?
I think Spurs are basically done for their off-season. They didn't do what I wished (more changes) but what they did makes some sense. They should just sign 1 or 2 min salary third stringer to fill the roster.
It will be then Fox max extension in August which should be solved in a matter of minutes. Spurs could always asked him to take a little less but giving him the max is a no-brainer.
Brook Lopez and Capela are both slowing down in a massive way. Kornet has good years ahead of him. The contracts make sense.
Ha Will Perdue was solid as . However Kornet is way more athletic, better offensively and has good shooting form
The video of. Him and Porzingis working together, imo, is a good preview of what’s to come if they run it.
Yeah Lopez fell off a cliff last year and the Hawks thought Capela wasn’t even playable.
So the comparisons between the two with Kornet makes no sense.
Is Kornet much better than Raynaud would have been or the other rookie centers would have been when you compare what they would have cost to what he's getting paid?
We have no idea if Raynaud can even play at this level
This should work.
I don't think they will make him shoot 3's. He's gonna be more in the mold of Splitter and Poeltl. Anything is better than dog Zollins though.
Some of the numbers paint Kornet as a top 75 ish player in the league (I'd say this is high). He's limited, not the most talented player, but does role player things at an elite level. In terms of impact / estimated catch all metrics (per minute), I'd guess that maybe 3 rookies will have more value next year than him.
Is this satire?
Spurs aren't complete without a big white stiff in the middle
Like Jesterbobman said, some of the numbers seem to paint Kornet quite highly, but I have a hard time believing them. Why didn't he play more minutes for Boston if he is as good as some of those metrics show?? He plays low minutes, never averaged more than 7ppg in his career etc. When I look at the raw stats, it's not very impressive.
If he is as good as some of those metrics show, why didn't he at least play more minutes. Also, he's had seasons where he hasn't played many games. Is that because he's been injured or just because he couldn't get on to the court ahead of others players?
He played 15 and 18mpg in the past two seasons, exactly the role we signed him up for.
I don't understand your complaints, someone who plays 15mpg on a championship roster with two other quality bigs ahead of him is definitely the best option in this poor market.
But people still get caught up in names and don't realize how washed the likes of Lopez, Capela and Looney are.
I think he's been getting better - all the little micro skills in screen angles, positioning for rebounds / using length to protect the rim etc that come over time. He's not an awesome athlete, so he's had to work to get good enough at all that stuff to matter.
He's like the inverse DeAndre Ayton, where he's much more impactful than he is talented, because he plays within what he can and can't do. In previous years, Al Horford and Zingus were ahead, and they played Tatum at the 4 - hard to get major minutes as a third string centre and beat out 2 (former) all star -ish level players. Big of aging for Al, Zingus injured, him improving, and got a shot.
I'd guess that he'll be a roughly top 125 - 150 player, paid like 175th best player in the league (https://hoopshype.com/salaries/players/). I don't think there's a realistic path to much more than that (i.e, I don't think he's a hidden star who'll level up to Zubac impact), but replacing replacement level minutes with slightly above neutral is a big improvement.
You wanted Maxime Raynaud, the great white man from Stanford and Wemby's chessmate; you will have Luke Kornet, the great white Jedi from Boston who can jump on threes and Wemby's future kung-fu partner.
I'm betting on an alliance of the two inside for a few minutes to play tall ball.
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