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Plus if he hasn't played much at 24 = low impact, can still have a long career with the proper development.
The game now is more complex that has ever been. It takes at least 4 years after high school and 2 years in the pros for a lot of players to figure it out. Simmons is a rookie and he's already 25 years old. Spurs are doing the right thing by almost always stashing 1st round picks in Europe. Most first rounders aren't worth the rookie salary scale. It's like paying for someone millions for 2-4 years just so that they can figure out how to play. Absolutely a waste of money!
Take Cory Joseph as an example, barely every played in the playoffs, but after playing for Spurs for 3 years all the investment goes to another team that acquired him.
Plus if he hasn't played much at 24 = low impact, can still have a long career with the proper development.
at least, but probably quite a bit moreNext Nazr Mohammed
Hope the kid pans out. Spurs will be in the market for another end of the bench center next season.
Disagree. You want to get your franchise players young, but if the Spurs get even 2 useful seasons out of Ndoye as a 4th or 5th big, that's a great return on a D-League contract.
if he plays with movement, aggressivity, shot blocking, soft touch mid ranger, finisher for the Spurs like he does in those college, euro highlights, he's much more than Austin filler.
Less true for guys like him that start playing organized basketball later in life, perhaps.
Good to see Spurs ac ulating projects for the center position. These guys are expensive when they become serviceable, just look at how much they paid Baynes.
Better for Spurs to be building up a pipeline rather than paying premium in the open market.
The guys in the pipeline:
Marjanovic (already in the team)
Multinov (21 years old, but stashed in Europe)
Ndoye (24 playing in the D-league)
Lalanne (more of a PF in size but with 7'5" wingspan, 2nd round draft likely to be stashed somewhere)
Anyone else in the list ?
He looked good as the SL progressed.
Big fella with some upside. Under our / Austin development guys he can get better.
No risk deal.
I highly doubt that Jimmer plays for Austin. He'll either be in SA or Europe, where he can make much more than dleague money.
Very ignorant comment
This. If you're signing undrafted guys for the D League, they don't have to project as franchise players.
Spurs have so much depth at PF/C that inviting quality bigmen to training camp seems unnecessary. Using these spots on future Toros players is a smart move and Ndoye looks like a fine signing for a D-League player/prospect.
If Spurs can create a development pipeline where Toro players come into the NBA prepared then it a major advantage. There are three players that have come out of that pipeline that I know of, Bryce Cotton, Jamychal Green and Jonathon Simmons.
If I'm not mistaken, not a single player coming from Austin has had some kind of NBA impact since Spurs brought them 8 years ago. If Simmons do well with Spurs, he will be the first one.
As it stands, D-League can't be a place to develop future NBA players. Salaries are just too low for that.
Holy , that is big.
Kind of depends on what one means by impact, but I do agree about the salaries.
I means a player being a rotation NBA player (10-15mpg) for at least a couple of years. I'm not including players that are send to Austin while being under contract with Spurs.
I don't remember a player fitting that description.
He's very raw. Austin will probably work for him.
How about Danny Green?
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