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Lonnie Walker also has a decent three pointer.
Trey has looked like a reliable 3 pt shooter who had a cold start to the season. He has a nice stroke.
I always believed White was a good shooter who just lacked confidence. His college numbers agree with this. He has been shooting more 3s these last few games.
Lonnie Walker also has a decent three pointer.
Quinndary shot 37% on over 500 attempts in college. Samanic is shooting 36% in Austin so far.
Spurs playing right now:
https://gleague.nba.com/games/20191204/AUSTEX/
Keldon finally hit a 3 tonight.
Glad to see he hit one. He takes a lot of them so it is probably just getting used to the flow and getting comfortable. They are not streaming this game How is Metu playing? I see his stats look good but they can be deceiving.
Tonight's game will air on FSSW in the middle of the night (2:30-4:30 am SA Time).
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Thanks, Ace. I was going to post, but you're always there with the goods. It's good that Keldon finally got the lid off from the 3P line. Even without the 3's, he's been putting up points. He had 23 tonight, but the 7 TO's won't get him time in SA.
Metu is starting to really intrigue me. I thought he looked pretty bad in the limited minutes we saw him. But he's been looking pretty good lately. Tonight he had 25 and 12, 3 steals and a block - and no TO's. He's not a 3P shooter, but his 2P% has gotten a LOT better. I hope that means he's seriously improving. It's tempting to say that it's the G-League, but all the other G-League players are playing against G-League opponents.
Pretty damn impressive highlight reel for Metu, tbh.
And Samanic in there setting him up play after play.
Good stuff
Metu doesnt look bad at all and damn luka can run that floor and dish
I think Metu will be our eventual Gay replacement. His style has evolved over these past few years and you could see hints of Rudy Gays post up game in there. Gay must have spent a lot of time with Metu.
All 4 of our guys look like they have a chance to crack the rotation next year. That's very promising
Cheers for the highlights Ace!
Luka is looking good.
Fluid with his playmaking.
Metu looks like a completely different player than last season... Nice mid-range jumper, finishes around the rim, and most impressively he's not afraid to dunk the ball in different situations much unlike Poeltl, who seems to have skipped that part of the Big Man Seminar. Very interesting prospect to watch develop. Luka also looks good... I hope the coaches get him shooting 3's at a high rate soon, same as Keldon. We know they can physically overpower G-League opponents, but without a reliable shot they're not getting much playing time in SA.
Metu has a very broad skillset, it's all about which parts of it can translate to the NBA. It also seems like they have Keldon handling the ball a lot, so he becomes a better playmaker and knows how to score coming off screens.
Spurs got the win tonight.
Austin Spurs
POS MIN FGM-A 3PM-A FTM-A +/- OREB DREB REB AST PF STL TO BS BA PTS Keldon
Johnson
0SF 32 9-16 3-6 0-0 7 1 4 5 1 4 0 2 0 1 21 Luka
Samanic
19PF 29 4-15 0-3 3-3 -4 1 5 6 0 2 1 2 3 2 11 Chimezie
Metu
7C 30 7-13 0-1 1-1 4 2 4 6 3 2 1 2 0 1 16 Quinndary
Weatherspoon
15SG 27 4-10 1-3 3-5 7 0 2 2 4 0 4 1 0 3 13 Matt
Farrell
4PG 25 4-7 2-5 0-0 13 1 2 3 5 2 1 1 1 0 10 Jeff
Ledbetter
220 4-6 3-4 0-0 2 1 3 4 0 0 1 1 1 0 11 Tevin
King
1122 0-3 0-0 0-0 -4 0 1 1 3 4 2 2 0 2 0 Dedric
Lawson
517 10-16 1-4 1-1 5 8 4 12 0 1 0 1 1 0 22 Kenny
Williams
2415 1-6 1-4 0-0 2 2 2 4 2 1 0 0 1 0 3 Daulton
Hommes
3418 3-10 3-7 0-0 13 1 4 5 3 3 0 1 0 0 9
https://gleague.nba.com/games/20191206/SXFAUS/
Saw the game in Frisco in person against the Legends on Wed. All the Spurs draft picks from the last 2 years had good moments. Metu looked very good on both sides of the floor. He showed range with his shot, speed up and down the floor getting ahead of the defense with alley opp dunks and even pretty good defense/defensive rebounding.
Samanic and Johnson both had very good moments showing their skill sets.
Luka got a little dinged on the knee which limited him for awhile in the game, but his mobility and shooting stroke look good. He is still growing into his body and needs another 10-15 pounds of muscle to power through opposing players. His ability to get up and down the floor is impressive - especially with the ball in his hand.
Keldon is a very physical ball player with no fear going hard to the rim. The draft picks will get a bunch of experience this year in Austin and hopefully move up to the big club full time next year.
Who knows, if the season goes south record wise in the next couple of months maybe SA will be a possibility in March and April for the Austin players. I don't think the FO will keep them off the floor in SA if the Spurs are lottery bound late this season.
Last edited by Harry Callahan; 12-07-2019 at 08:07 AM.
Finally hitting the 3. Johnson is going to be serviceable good! He appears to me getting bigger and seems to score well with contact.
Keldon with that Derrick White speed, lol. He’s looking good though.
Most excited about Luka though. How’d he do?
Do Luka and Metu Play roughly the same position? or do they play different positions. From what I can see it looks like both are more modern day PF but is one of the better at SF or C or would they both be more pf/SF combos?
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