Spurs vs Trail Blazers — Jan. 18, 2021 - 2PM Central

[John B]

Vassell should be starting yo

He would be the best 2way at SG imo. And Lonnie needs touches with the 2nd unit

[8sy21vd]

Can we trade or cut Booty Gay so Vassell can get some more pt? Loving his game.

[spurspl]

cant wait to see keldon and devin takin derozans minutes

[John B]

About 40 of San Antonio's first half points were scored on Kanter

Yup Kanter is pretty slow closing in

[Collins21]

Pop and the simulator crew are among the worst in the league at recognizing the hot hand. His priorities are:

1. Make the playoffs
2. Get his vets nice contracts next season.

Youngsters have to wait in line for their turn.

You would rather give our young guys the ball so they can go head first into three defenders and cough up the ball?

[PhantomDashCam]

What's maddening about Lonnie and his role on the team, is once again, Pop's unwillingness to adapt or change up things when they clearly aren't working. You saw this dude get back-to-back 20pt games once he was allowed more touches and more of a role on offense - why not try bringing him off the bench for a couple games, take over the bench (instead of the Chucky Mills show every night), and replace him with Vassell in the SL? If all Lonnie's tasked to do is stand on the perimeter and watch DD-LMA two-man-game, that's perfectly something that Vassell could do.

But Vassell is a Rookie™ and Rookies™ don't start, I guess.

The issue with a bench role is that the O goes through Patty and Gay when they enter the game.
To see Lonnie in a situation where he is successful, he needs 1 of 3 things to happen:
An injury to a key player, a trade of either Patty, DDR or Gay; or a trade to a new team. Hope it isn’t the latter.

[Mugen]

The sample size is microscopic but I firmly believe that continued development from DJ/Lonnie/DWhite/Keldon is enough to replace the scoring/playmaking that Derozan currently provides and they'd be much better off in the long run.

The question is whether it can eventually replace the production of Derozan + LMA - not sure on that as they clearly need some type of scoring threat in the frontcourt to balance things out

[JuneJive]

Mills looked pretty decent on D so far.

Active and kind of disruptive.

[John B]

Portland with 10 2nd chance pts.

[John B]

The sample size is microscopic but I firmly believe that continued development from DJ/Lonnie/DWhite/Keldon is enough to replace the scoring/playmaking that Derozan currently provides and they'd be much better off in the long run.

The question is whether it can eventually replace the production of Derozan + LMA - not sure on that as they clearly need some type of scoring threat in the frontcourt to balance things out

Add Vassell there too. Given more minutes, this kid can easily 16pts 6 rebounds

[Robz4000]

Kanter

[John B]

Lonnie get beat a lot tbh

[Mugen]

Add Vassell there too. Given more minutes, this kid can easily 16pts 6 rebounds

Too early to extrapolate that statline from what we've seen from him. But agreed that he looks good so far in limited mins without a SL and training camp.

[Sugus]

The issue with a bench role is that the O goes through Patty and Gay when they enter the game.

Yeah, but that's a problem in itself. I don't understand how Pop can see Rudy be such a ball-hog and blackhole on offense, and not say anything to him, or try and change anything up. Taking the ball away from Rudy, and putting it in Lonnie's hands, would be a double-whammy of a win. Makes so much sense that it probably won't happen

To see Lonnie in a situation where he is successful, he needs 1 of 3 things to happen:
An injury to a key player, a trade of either Patty, DDR or Gay; or a trade to a new team. Hope it isn’t the latter.

[Mugen]

Nice D there from Lonnie on Lillard.

[John B]

That should be off Llliard

[NASpurs]

Imagine if Anus Kancer were on our team, that dude would get crucified

[John B]

Let's go Spurs!

[Mugen]

Good focus to start the qtr tbh.

[John B]

Imagine if Anus Kancer were on our team, that dude would get crucified

[Dejounte]

At least we don't have Kanter. That guy is singlehandedly losing this game for the Blazers.

Lonnie being given some opportunities but he's blowing them so far

[John B]

When Aldridge gets started early, he gets motivated. Or it's just playing against his old team, auditioning

[$pursDynasty]

Imagine if Anus Kancer were on our team, that dude would get crucified

The horror only a masochist could handle it

[Darius Bieber]

Did I hear that right? Aldridge and Poeltl have a combined 0 rebounds? ouch

[Robz4000]

Rodney ing Hood getting superstar calls