Except the frontcourt isn't "full"
They could buy Lyles out for 1 million. He's mediocre and the bubble proved him a non-factor. Just a charity case.
Samanic isn't a good player. There's nothing he does better than Lyles and Lyles can be gone easy.
Poeltl could be pryed away
Gay is on his way to breaking down and getting a buyout
Sure, the 41st pick doesn't really flip any of that on it's head
And at 11, while I like Poku, without Jalen Smith on the board it's hard to fault them going for a wing. Precious is small and raw at 21 years old, Stewart can't jump, Nnaji ... ehhh ...
Without aggresively trading up, the balls just didn't bounce their way to improve the frontcourt.
I loved Patrick Williams. He was long gone. Okongwu and Avdija, gone. Some people even liked Toppin for some reason, gone.
But not drafting big had less to do with the Fading/Expiring/Replacement bigs/sfs on the team and more to do with the players not being there on the board, that's all. None of these 1 year players were going to stop the Spurs from drafting big anymore than the multi-year presence of Keldon and Lonnie affected picking Vassell.
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