Game Thread: Spurs (24-31) @ Pelicans (14-43) -- Tue. 2/25/2025 -- 7:00pm CST (3:00am Riga; 3:00pm Hawaii)

[scott]

Missed the game. Did Castle get hurt? Otherwise, what the is he doing playing 11 mins?

Welcome to the Mitching Hour, where wins become losses and development turns into disappointment

[SPURt]

No Wemby is a tough watch, lawd. My wish was the others would start figuring it out with CP3, but I’ve already found myself needing to use my wish hand to catch the over flow of in the other.

[Frenchfred]

Yeah, fair enough. I'm trying not to get worked up about the games or Stephon not playing much now. I was OK with losing if the team played hard and players that looked like they'd have a bright future got more minutes. Steph is not looking too good anymore and I'm not sure what the deal is.
Tonight he didn't look like he even deserved the minutes, but why is he now looking so bad.

As for the draft odds, are you saying the Spurs could reach 7th? If so, what odds would that give? So with the Spurs currently in 9th, the top 4 pick chances have gone up a decent amount looking at those numbers you posted.



How is shedding all the "bums" on the team going to improve the the team if we still draft 8th or 9th like you've just mentioned?

How do you propose they improve?

if we have the 7th worst record, chance of getting a top4 is 32% and 1st pick 7.5%. As comparison, the worst team has 52.1% and 14% respectively. Now if Atlanta could go down, that would give us additional chances

[Slippy]

I expect Vassell to play better now that the games are meaningless.

Castle has hit the rookie wall. Or the Spurs have sucked the joy out of him. Probably a bit of both.

The games have been meaningless for awhile. Atleast since all star break. I would say the slump is still continuing . Ya he got a few drives in the 2nd half of last nights game. ... but that shot of his still looks off. Constantly fading or leaning even when open. Not as high release anymore compared to previous seasons.

[z0sa]

Castle, 11 minutes.

Fire Mitch Johnson. I don't want to hear any crap about Pop, either. He's not coming back. Get someone who's going to develop our ace instead of sitting him.

[Obstructed_View]

When you spend years destroying the heart of your team with tanking and mismanagement, how do you expect them to compete? No Spurs team in the last several years has been the best version of itself. It's even more disheartening to trade away the high picks you tanked for only to continue to hamstring your team for more future lottery picks.

No focus on the present. No development, no desire to win, no accountability.

I guess benching your young future all star to watch a 40 year old stat pad in double digit losses is appropriate since its overseen by a placeholder assistant guiding the team to the occasional win that gets credited to a hospitalized septuagenarian.

[LeBowen]

It wasn't just Castle, Jeremy also got ed over by Mitch's incompetence.
I love hating on Jeremy, but he had a very good game.
Was our best Zion defender, rolled hard to the rim, 12/9/2 with 2 blocks in just 19 minutes.
But no, forget about matchups against a team with size advantage, we need to respect CP0's corpse.

Mamu played more than Castle and he didn't do . As much as everyone loves Mamu, there's nothing in there. He'll never be a legit rotation piece.

Devin was 1-7 with 0 rebounds and 1 assist in the first half and yet he was allowed to play himself back into the game. Why is Castle's treatment different?

Mitch's carrot and stick approach would be valid if he wasn't holding Castle to under 20 minutes even when he was dominating.