Official 2018 Spurs Media Day and Training Camp Thread

[SAGirl]

Really didn't want to see this. In a direct compe ion, I thought Blossom did enough to earn a spot over Huestis, and I'm not a fan of Josh as the 15th man with the need for a guard. Maybe they consider Murray more of a defender than a PG anyway? I think it would be a mistake to put DeJounte in the same vein as a guy like Huestis or Green. Dude is a team defender like Draymond. Huestis may be able to check a player one-on-one, but his impact stats are just not on that level.

On top of all that (really he never played a preseason game so I don't know how he was looking in training camp), he has a Jones fracture that he got on Sept. 13!

Spurs basically signed a guy that will miss at least a couple of months and will have to rehab.

This doesn't make sense at all.

I am assuming it's a charity case and they are honoring the offer that was on the table. That's just me, but this is basically an Austin signing.

With the horrible job the SA press has been doing I don't trust early reports but allegedly Spurs aren't looking for further guard depth.

[tbdog]

On top of all that (really he never played a preseason game so I don't know how he was looking in training camp), he has a Jones fracture that he got on Sept. 13!

Spurs basically signed a guy that will miss at least a couple of months and will have to rehab.

This doesn't make sense at all.

I am assuming it's a charity case and they are honoring the offer that was on the table. That's just me, but this is basically an Austin signing.

With the horrible job the SA press has been doing I don't trust early reports but allegedly Spurs aren't looking for further guard depth.

No, I don't think Spurs will go for guard death. There just isn't anything worthy out there. It would require White to the bed as a backup for the Spurs to consider getting a veteran backup. And I don't see any trade partners currently. As I said in another thread, DD will be the starting point. Mills will be starting SG and play backup point with White. Forbes and Beli will handle backup SG. Gay, Beli, and Cunningham will handle SF duties. Bertans, Gay, Cunningham are your combo forwards. Center is set.

[SAGirl]

No, I don't think Spurs will go for guard death. There just isn't anything worthy out there. It would require White to the bed as a backup for the Spurs to consider getting a veteran backup. And I don't see any trade partners currently. As I said in another thread, DD will be the starting point. Mills will be starting SG and play backup point with White. Forbes and Beli will handle backup SG. Gay, Beli, and Cunningham will handle SF duties. Bertans, Gay, Cunningham are your combo forwards. Center is set.

And I agreed that made the most sense but IMO it’s not enough. The season is barely starting and already they lost their depth. But perhaps they can survive until Walker gets healthy. Still think their 2way player should be a guard in that case and not Jones fractured Huestis. IMO

[tbdog]

And I agreed that made the most sense but IMO it’s not enough. The season is barely starting and already they lost their depth. But perhaps they can survive until Walker gets healthy. Still think their 2way player should be a guard in that case and not Jones fractured Huestis. IMO

It was Mills and 2nd year Murray last season. This season it's Mills and second year White. Losing Manu hurts, but we got Beli. 2nd year Forbes over 1st year Forbes. Walker will be out as long as Parker was last season. The difference is Parker and Manu knew what Pop wanted and how to steer the ship. Plus, how much worse is second year White over season Murray? Adding DD is a big big plus here. Losing Green on offense is also a win. The guy must play alongside a playmaker. Every Spurs guard can put the ball on the floor.

[8FOR!3]

His right knee finally followed his left one, and I do not believe he could compete at NBA game levels, even in the half court. It was a little sad to see the last few months, plus playoffs, of his final season. He just had no lift at all. He went from not being able to jump over a phone book to not being able to jump over a piece of paper. I'm glad to see him working with the players, but that's half speed.

I'm sure his knees are doing better now than they were two years ago so if you threw him in a few half court sets right now he'd probably look pretty good. Obviously this is all hypothetical, he retired at the right time and his knees can't handle the vigor of an actual NBA season or he'd be right back to where he was when he retired.

[sasaint]

No, I don't think Spurs will go for guard death. There just isn't anything worthy out there. It would require White to the bed as a backup for the Spurs to consider getting a veteran backup. And I don't see any trade partners currently. As I said in another thread, DD will be the starting point. Mills will be starting SG and play backup point with White. Forbes and Beli will handle backup SG. Gay, Beli, and Cunningham will handle SF duties. Bertans, Gay, Cunningham are your combo forwards. Center is set.

Well put!

[SAGirl]

It was Mills and 2nd year Murray last season. This season it's Mills and second year White. Losing Manu hurts, but we got Beli. 2nd year Forbes over 1st year Forbes. Walker will be out as long as Parker was last season. The difference is Parker and Manu knew what Pop wanted and how to steer the ship. Plus, how much worse is second year White over season Murray? Adding DD is a big big plus here. Losing Green on offense is also a win. The guy must play alongside a playmaker. Every Spurs guard can put the ball on the floor.

They had Anderson who was a PG at times as you know, Manu (Belli is not the same kind of player), and on top of that had White in the Gleague. The guards were healthy last year except for Tony. Mills played a lot of minutes and 82 games. Murray barely missed a game. It’s about depth. Are you counting on 82 games for everyone else the rest of the way? No further setbacks?

[SpursDynasty85]

They had Anderson who was a PG at times as you know, Manu (Belli is not the same kind of player), and on top of that had White in the Gleague. The guards were healthy last year except for Tony. Mills played a lot of minutes and 82 games. Murray barely missed a game. It’s about depth. Are you counting on 82 games for everyone else the rest of the way? No further setbacks?

Plenty of guards already. Mills, White, Forbes, Belli, and DeRozan. That's 5! Our SF can be played by Gay, Cunningham, and part time DeRozan and Huestis. PF can be Bertans, Gay, Aldridge. We had plenty of depth plus Walker will be with us in the 2nd half. Not to mention Metu in our back pocket.

[SAGirl]

Plenty of guards already. Mills, White, Forbes, Belli, and DeRozan. That's 5! Our SF can be played by Gay, Cunningham, and part time DeRozan and Huestis. PF can be Bertans, Gay, Aldridge. We had plenty of depth plus Walker will be with us in the 2nd half. Not to mention Metu in our back pocket.

Not when some of those will be getting minutes as wings. You still need a body when one of those needs a day off for whatever nag. That’s the point. Huestis should not even be counted at this point. He has a gleague contract and a jones fracture.

[SpursDynasty85]

Not when some of those will be getting minutes as wings. You still need a body when one of those needs a day off for whatever nag. That’s the point. Huestis should not even be counted at this point. He has a gleague contract and a jones fracture.

Walker was more likely going to be g league. We lose one player and now we have no depth? Count the players that could possibly play at the 1 thru 3: White, Mills, Forbes. Belli, DeRozan, Gay, and Cunningham. Not to mention Walker will be back in 2months and Davis has played some spot minutes at the 3. We aren't short on the 4 or 5 either.

Why sign a player for the year when we already had too many gaurds? Would deflate the remaining players with the notion they can't make up for the slack because of one injury (Murray). Now they have to integrate a new pg? Bad move imo.

[KDKSpurs24]

I believe the Spurs will be able to survive this. Why? Because at the end of the day, Last year the Spurs didn’t have Kawhi and Rudy missed a lot of games and so on. We now have DeRozan to fill the lack of Kawhi. We now have a healthier and more efficient Rudy Gay. Now I get to this point.. Dejounte was huge on defense but it wasn’t like his offensive contributions were great. The system MAY be able to compensate for some of the lack of defense but this time around Derrick White is capable of stretching the floor and being an offensive threat. So it balances out. Therefore this team may still be a lot better than last year. No one is beating a healthy Warriors team so all I’m saying is Spurs still have a chance to win a lot of games and make it to at least the 2nd round. That’s a success to me considering the cir stances.

Edit: Oh and let’s not forget that we may be able to give a healthy Lonnie Walker a chance now. And the truth is that he may be more talented than anyone on the team (like Donovan Mitc was). There’s still a lot to look forward to!

[exstatic]

And I agreed that made the most sense but IMO it’s not enough. The season is barely starting and already they lost their depth. But perhaps they can survive until Walker gets healthy. Still think their 2way player should be a guard in that case and not Jones fractured Huestis. IMO

How many times do you have to be told: Huestis is NOT on a two way contract. He is on an exhibit 10 contract. He will be waived by the 17th, report to Austin by the 20th, stay 60 days minimum, and collect his $50K bonus check, while getting medical treatment and rehab there. If he were healthy, his ex 10 contract could be converted into a two way, but he's not, and it won't be.

[SAGirl]

How many times do you have to be told: Huestis is NOT on a two way contract. He is on an exhibit 10 contract. He will be waived by the 17th, report to Austin by the 20th, stay 60 days minimum, and collect his $50K bonus check, while getting medical treatment and rehab there. If he were healthy, his ex 10 contract could be converted into a two way, but he's not, and it won't be.

This is a long thread in which people are assuming Huestis is somehow on the roster and available to be play. He shouldn’t even be mentioned. I assume when healthy he can be converted to a 2 way (which people kinda assume he is going to be). I appreciate you clarifying this bc more people than me are confused by his current status. As far as I am concerned he’s gleague material.

btw my response was to a poster above who I assume wanted Huestis converted to a 2 way...

[Pavlov]

As far as I can guess, Huestis was on a summer contract when he got injured that paid him nothing in salary but covered expenses. I believe the Spurs had enough players under regular contracts that they only had to pay him $6000 for his injury and could have been done with him -- so they definitely want the guy on some Spurs team. The waive-to-Austin scenario makes sense. The question I have is if any NBA level salary is guaranteed during his recovery time or was it negotiated out of the contract (apparently that's possible).

[K...]

Decided to make a gif of the spurs two most important players:

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So to summarize what forbes said here, he's stronger which helps defense, he slept poorly last year and ran out of steam in the last 3rd of the season.

[JeffDuncan]

So to summarize what forbes said here, he's stronger which helps defense, he slept poorly last year and ran out of steam in the last 3rd of the season.

He slept poorly?? Who was the Spurs sleeping coach last year? We obviously need a better sleeping coach.

[NASpurs]

[objective]

Sooo ... I guess that means that Pondexter made the team? At least long enough to cover his 150k I suppose

[NASpurs]

Can Noah play PG?

[ceperez]

Sooo ... I guess that means that Pondexter made the team? At least long enough to cover his 150k I suppose

It would be a steal in Pondexter gets to the level he was 3 years ago. He's 30 years old and missed a lot of time since them. Perhaps he can get back to old form. Is that the hope?


BTW... he's also a good character guy.

[ace3g]

[ace3g]

[bklynspursfan]

[J_Paco]

Sooo ... I guess that means that Pondexter made the team? At least long enough to cover his 150k I suppose

Boo!

Pondexter ia just as poor a player as White and Johnson. Not sure why they've decided to keep him around beyond the preseason?

[ace3g]