Couldnt find a trade with his contract and arent bringing him back anyway.
kicking tires on young players and with JJJ coming back they have Jonas as the back up
doing a favor to a good dude and player
Couldnt find a trade with his contract and arent bringing him back anyway.
Looks like a NBA2k character model. The guy is missing a few polygons.
I was really close to starting one of those “seedy places of ‘worship’ of Marquese Chriss” threads
Well, well, well, that's a FTL move. I think TiMVP is right; he is probably the best player of the 3 between him, Aldridge, and Drummond. WhyTF did he pick us though?
Buyouts technically involved being waived. I assume he gave up money but haven't seen specifics yet.
Probably. But the Spurs could have given him more. They had a majority of the MLE to spend. It's even possible the Spurs gave him a multi-year deal. Hopefully we get details soon.
I admit...I'm guilty....I'll own it...
Didn't Dieng have a 19 PER for the Grizzlies? Calling R. DeMurre
Good shot blocker too.
My guess is he was won over by slightly more money and the chance to play for Pop.
So how does this help us get into the lottery?
In any case, it looks like we upgraded from Aldridge to Dieng and our rotation is now set:
C: Poeltl / Dieng
PF: DeRozan / Gay
SF: Johnson
SG: White / Walker
PG: Murray / Mills
That's a pretty solid 9-man rotation
Definitely an upgrade to the state of the team. Solid vet with good shooting and timely defense. Honestly.... we’ll get more out of this guy than LA. And he won’t negatively impact any of the youngsters progress besides drew. I guess Drew is just going to have to wait till next year.
We just jumped to 7th....fck the lottery
spurs def could of thrown some cash his way. Plus im sure hes all but guaranteed minutes behind foul prone jakob
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I still think it wouldn’t hurt if they go with Luka at the 4, DD at the 3 and have Johnson dominate off the bench. Luka has proven to not be too much of a liability anymore. Curtail his minutes if necessary. Just keep building his confidence.
i wouldn’t mind a 10 man rotation and just tick down everyone’s mins just a little. Even if it’s Luka getting like 10 mins total a night. I think he could thrive in that role and keep everyone fresh
Just glad to have some good news from the FO for a change.
Looks like we were all jumping the gun assuming they were just angling to save their lunch money.
Diengs not a huge coup or anything...but a lot of "bigger teams" were hoping for him.
Very solid. He’s more impactful than Drummond imo.
Drew is our Matt Bonner. Locker room guy and that's it, which is fine, everybody needs one. See: Nick Collison, Udonis Haslem.
No, based on history, it's practically guaranteed that Detroit will sign him this offseason.
more important than the pickup itself is that a FA big man who by all accounts was coveted by some of the other contending teams chose to come to SA for whatever reason. mean's our franchise isn't as big of a dumpster fire as some people here think. Obviously Dieng isn't Anthony Davis or anything but the fact is he could have started and being competing for a ring in Miami or been a main cog somewhere like LAC and instead chose the Spurs. small boost to confidence in the FO tbh
Fair analysis. Another weakness is that he is a bit foul-prone. But he can block shots decently, has a high steal rate for a big and he rebounds really well too. He played very good team defense in his later seasons with the TimberPups.
I think he chose the Spurs as he is quite a character guy, does a lot of community work and comes from an international background - the Spurs are known to foster an international outlook in their teams (at least in the past). He will get along beautifully with Patty's bench gang.
We stacked fam!!! For real though, Dieng is a good piece. I don’t see this being the Luka blocker, but I do like the Malik Rose type energy of Eubanks. Gay and Mills reluctance to pass are really the only two things I don’t enjoy watching. Otherwise, this isn’t my least favorite Spurs team.
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