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I think I want Forbes on the team. The Spurs can use his shooting. If they feel he has any potential to be anything more than just a shooter, they should look very hard at keeping him and developing/expanding his game.
Doubtful. Many teams have very tough decisions for the 15th spot. There will be a lot of attractive players being cut but no spots to fill.
D-League or overseas will be the play for most players who are cut.
I think I want Forbes on the team. The Spurs can use his shooting. If they feel he has any potential to be anything more than just a shooter, they should look very hard at keeping him and developing/expanding his game.
All things being equal with Forbes, Garino, Laprovitolla and Arcidiacono, Spurs will likely non-sign the players least likely to be picked up by someone else. In order of least likely to be picked up Arcidiacono -> Garino -> Laprovitolla -> Forbes. I wouldn't be shocked though that Spurs will not pick anyone!
It would be great if the 15 man roster limit were removed altogether and just let the teams manage their own depth requirements on their own so long as they still operated within the salary cap. Older teams would then be better able to manage development of their younger talent (through D-League affiliates) and find more rest for their veteran players. Pop would go crazy with minutes management.
This dude is ripe for the cutting.
Well if Spurs sign him up, then that is *extremely* promising. Meaning he's got a lot more talent than Laprovitolla. That's definitely saying something.
There is a lot more media noise out there on Forbes than Laprovittola
Jeff McDonald on the Forbes bandwagon:
That's right, been seeing a lot more media about Forbes for the past couple of weeks. It seems to be the tell that he's in.
Doesn't mean a damn thing what the media says it's what Pop says that means something!!
Don't get too high on that, tbh, Pop gonna Pop and we're probably keeping Joel Anthony...
For now i think the team may end up keeping the roster spot open.
The bench is still so unreliable that you might be forced to keep the spot open in case a clear need emerges.
Having 14 players under contract was not a very good idea considering how many of them are unproven to be consistent NBA players. Bertans has been well but in preseason games, Simmons and Anderson have yet to shown they can be significant contributors, Murray is a questionmark and so is Deadmon while Livio seems unplayable.
There you have 6 of 14 players that you don´t know if they will be able to help for a full season, and also let´s not forget that while unlikely, Manu might significantly drop his production at any time, and if Tony continues to decline at he peace he has been declining he can also be in Manu´s situation at any point.
So as said before, i won´t be surprised if they don´t pick anyone up. As these are all facts, anything else, is just hoping that things turn out better.
I don't even...
Sad days. I mean I like Anthony too, and I have thought they keep Lapro myself, but press made much ado about J.Simms last summer and he didn't even look worth keeping during preseason games (he was awwwwwful during preseason, first sign of the mentally weak syndrome, but anyways been down that road b4 and I do not want to bring it back except to remind you he was awful last preaseason, just awful.)
Forbes has been much better than last preseason J.Simms and I always thought a player like him is what Pop wanted from Jimmer but didn't get. I don't think the noise is just noise, but yea one can never tell with Pop...
Nothing against the roster, just saying that we are carrying a high risk roster, you can also get high reward, but this is not the usually playoff tested roster the spurs usually carry.
I do tend to think they pick someone. It might end up not being Forbes, but they have a better crop of candidates this season than they did the last preseason IMO. Some of these guys have played better than rotation players and have a really defined specialty.
Would make more sense to keep Joel Anthony. Pop loves em vets
Keeping Joel Anthony will be a *bad* sign. It means that Lee, Dedmon and LJC aren't good enough for Pop.
Select Forbes for the 15th spots says that he's good enough to be worth protecting and the bigs are good enough to be in the court.
As fans, we can't see what goes on in practice. We don't get to run a full evaluation. So any actual decision by PATFO is the best indicator of the ability of the player picked and the ability of the other role players in the team. Sticking with LJC, despite him having nothing to show is actually a good sign.
That is what I am thinking.
Pop also talked about Laprovittola stating he's not a rookie and that he has experience playing internationally, so he's among that "vet" category Pop likes and still a real possibility. He has also been shooting very well, he's just not the scorer Forbes is.
To me, it's still really hard to tell bc again all 3 bring something different. Spurs need shooters, neither Murray, nor Simmons are good shooters, Anderson needs to shoot more himself, and Manu will be rested, etc. The bench is already cramped with the regular roster as it is. Add in an injury to somebody midseason and there is just not enough shooting to go around.
At the end of the day, the 15th spot filled or unfilled will be an indicator as to either (1) what the coaching staff believes to be the Spurs weakness or (2) the player being sufficiently talented to fill a need in the team (3) sufficiently talented regardless of filling any need.
Pop also talked about Laprovittola stating he's not a rookie and that he has experience playing internationally, so he's among that "vet" category Pop likes and still a real possibility. He has also been shooting very well, he's just not the scorer Forbes is.
To me, it's still really hard to tell bc again all 3 bring something different. Spurs need shooters, neither Murray, nor Simmons are good shooters, Anderson needs to shoot more himself, and Manu will be rested, etc. The bench is already cramped with the regular roster as it is. Add in an injury to somebody midseason and there is just not enough shooting to go around.
A Joel Anthony pick considering that he's now on the decline just broadcasts to the world that every other big is just garbage.
Forbes pick says he's so much better at shooting than Laprovitolla considering he's nowhere need Lapro's ball handling.
LJC is an enigma because nobody has seen if he's any good. You can go off to youtube and you can't find any clips of him as a Spur this season.
Forbes, Arcidiacono and Garino all have contracts that seem to pay them to play in the D-league.
Laprovittola doesn't appear to have the same deal.
I hate to say one game has changed things too much, but I'm pretty sure we're down to two options... give him the 15th spot or another team takes him.
No way he goes to the D-League and doesn't get called up by another team.
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