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Staying the course will not be good enough to make the playoffs. spurs are on a sinking ship.
I've had my fits with moving DeMar like the rest of us, but with where we stand and the opportunity at hand... continuity is the best plan of action.
1. As some would point out, the Spurs had 8 new players this season and had a rash of injuries to start. DeMar coming onto a new team and new system played very well to start. He had ups and downs but overall he played pretty well all things considered. I'm not gonna defend him in the playoffs though... But one more year in the system with more knowledge of the plays can only benefit him. As we've seen in the past, most players take a couple years to get acclimated.
2. Another year for the bulk of the guys would give more room for improvement on top of the possible growth by the youth which would also heighten the ceiling and lower the floor. Only players I'd like to see gone or demoted to third string duties is Marco and Patty. They should be taking spot minutes when young players make bone headed mistakes. They can't be expected to be used like they were last year. We need them to be place holders as bad as that sounds.
3. This year should be used to grow our youngins as much as possible. We are gonna need help come playoffs and the more the more talented kids know and have experienced the better off we'll be.
4. We get our best defender and PG back from his ACL injury and pair him with White who hopefully has a chip on his shoulder after the playoff run, and we have a chance to be a pretty stout defensive team. Like some have mentioned, we need a 3 and D PF especially. That should help the spacing with the starting lineup and help balance the team overall. Bertans should of been that player but for whatever reason he is still not ready and I'm not sure he will ever be...
5. There really shouldn't be any deal available for DeRozan after how he finished the year, at least not one that would be worth it for us. It makes more sense to let him play out the year and see what we got after one more year. We are probably not gonna get enough back for him so might as well use him while we got him in a year where it's wide open out West. If we get the improvement from continuity and any of the White, Walker, or Murray, that come out we should be in strong position to at least compete. Then with DeMar coming of the books we can have a better idea of what we want to do with him or if it's best to have the space... Maybe White, Walker, and Murray all have breakout years.... then you don't need to resign DeMar, but at least now you can let things happen naturally. So it's best to just keep him imo.
Like Chinook posted... a 3/D PF and a 3 would be perfect.
These are the players i'm looking at in no order...
PF: Goga, Samanic, Hachimura, Bol Bol, Doumboya?
SF: KZ Okpala, Roby, Okeke, Windler, Bazley
Staying the course will not be good enough to make the playoffs. spurs are on a sinking ship.
Things have changed too much for SA to stay the course. Kawhi won a le, things are now super weird with DeRozan and SA has to choose a direction.
They made a “win now” move for DeRozan and they can’t go back on that now; either make moves to contend with GS out of the way or go the opposite direction and make moves to set your future up better.
Too much has transpired and the current environment is not conducive to standing still.
The GS injury implosion may actually push more teams to go for it. Frankly, I think that’s part of the reason the Pels got such a better haul for Davis than Spurs for Kawhi (among many others).
Given that, if there are any doubts in ability to compete for a le, the Spurs should zag while everyone else is zigging. Now a dumb team may think they’re a Patty Mills away from competing.
How about improving the damn team instead of staying the course?
Bogdanovic!!!
Hachimura!!!!
Middleton!!!!
If staying the course is more loyalty contracts with no pressure to perform, then to with that
sign that guy, hahahahahahaha
Spurs need to tinker and no need for mass changes. Two of Bertans/Forbes/Mills/Beli should be traded for better fits.
Spurs should get this Filipino, hehehehehe
I don't see any point in tanking anymore after seeing how the new lottery rules work. If the Spur suck they will end up in the lottery and we'll just go from there.
none of those points will make demar shoot 3s. our spacing is dog . Murray can’t shoot either but he’s way younger and can defend
Would never happen but I think the spurs and derozans best option is coming off the bench. He could handle pg duties and kill opposing bench players
Derrick White is the best defender and PG on the team.
The only way to stay the curse is to trade the albatross, Dumbmar.
I agree with this. Better team chemistry, better knowledge of the system and hunger for a crown after what kawhi had achieved this past season. with the 19th pick we could snatch a SF back up for gay and a PF.
All the Spurs need is to add an all-star or boarder line all-star to go along with Aldridge and DeRozan. Rudy Gay isn't it.
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