Damn!! We have not shot winning that game.
Random thoughts:
- We may not see some of these guys until post all-star break.
- I'm hoping they stagger Tre and Patty's minutes somewhat.
- Would Pop consider starting Tre and DJ in the back court together?
- Stab in the dark (and a long shot, granted) - Tre, DJ, Lonnie, Sham and Poeltl starting with Patty first sub in at 7 - 8 min mark for Tre...
My thinking is to ease the transition to the main club, it would help to keep the chemistry/continuity of Tre and Sham together in the rotation.
Pop has a penchant to keep some form of continuity amongst bench rotations. Patty would be that guy.
No disrespect to the Thunder, but would be one of the better teams to experience an experimental lineup change against.
Damn!! We have not shot winning that game.
WTF? All the team's talent sans Murray is out. Might as well let Aldridge keep sitting and say they can't field an 8 man roster.
Jesus...instead of netting some easy wins against cupcake teams and fluffing our W/L record, we now have half of our team and mostly our best rotation players out thanks to that re that foul out in 10 minutes what a turn of events
And it's the good half of the team out (other than Murray). This season is such a ing joke, yeah let's play it in stadiums with fans right after American heads met in large groups for Christmas and New Years in a raging pandemic. They should have done the ing bubble again.
Are Tre and Luka even going to be available? I thought they were still in the bubble...I guess they can leave but then can they not go back?
ty situation when the team was actually starting to put things together.
EDIT: NVM answered my own question.
16-11 now, 16-16 by the start of the All Star break.
Oh my we’re screwed
Unless I’m mistakened shouldn’t the other guys be back soonish tho? Like they’ve been quarantined since the 15th right, that would be at least 9 days quarantined from then to Wednesday’s game, isn’t it typically a 14 day quarantine
Forecasting the starters and depth chart with 5 rotational players out:
Standard Depth Chart with full roster:
PG - Murray, Mills, Jones
SG - W̶h̶i̶t̶e̶ , Walker, Samanic
SF - D̶e̶R̶o̶z̶a̶n̶ , V̶a̶s̶s̶e̶l̶l̶ , Diop
PF - J̶o̶h̶n̶s̶o̶n̶ , G̶a̶y̶ , Lyles
C - Aldridge, Poetle, Eubanks
Depth Chart with players out:
PG - Murray, Jones
SG - Walker, Mills
SF - Lyles, Samanic
PF - Eubanks, Diop
C - Aldridge, Poetle
I think coach runs a 9-man rotation, with Samanic hopefully getting more minutes than either Lyles or Eubanks.
Should be plenty of scoring from Murray, Walker, Mills, and Aldridge - with any of them capable of 20+ a night.
Win-Win IMO
Develop kids
If we lose - higher draft pick and Franz Wagner is more attainable
If we win - Tre & Luka showing they belong and we deep, baby
Samanic at SG/SF? WTF!
DJ, Tre
Mills,
Lonnie, KBD
Lyles, Luka
Jakob, Eubank
Can’t they sign Renfro on a 10 day? I don’t even care about Aldridge. He’s a net negative player
Tomorrow is when they can start signing players to 10 day contracts.
I think they'll also need to have multiple negative tests days in between each other. Whatever testing happened for Q before his return definitely wasn't thorough enough, so here we are.
They'll hopefully do a much better job with all the guys out & no one will have any serious complications. *fingers crossed*
i think the defense is there, as long as Aldridge does not play. And we have enough firepower. Lonnie needs to get medieval again. Samanic can be effective if given enough burn. I hope Demar is back against the Pelicans. Hopefully all 15 players are back on the 14th day against the Nets.
I like Renfro as a possible long - term project, but I'd hope they try to sign someone with more NBA experience. They're in desperate need of a wing or another scoring guard to help carry the offense.
Could be a tough week & a half either way, TBH.
Unless Eubanks or Lyles get hurt, I think Samanic is only being called up for depth and to have the required 8 or more bodies.
I doubt he sees much time & people should be tempering their expectations, but this is ST, so that won't happen.
They should’ve brought Renfro already and sign tomorrow to have enough time for Wednesday. Austin has a game tomorrow morning 10CT. If Renfro doesn’t play, he’s a Spur (I mean the big club).
Eubanks and Lyles aren't as favored as you think they are this season.
They both saw time over Luka when all three were available. Never said anything about who Pop "favors" since I'm no insider.
I just think Pop will go with guys that have NBA experience & have the best chance of helping win games. I doubt the old guy wants to lose multiple games in a row or worse.
That would suck. Luka is playing very well in the GLeague. Not playing him is a Loss-Loss for both Spurs and Luka’s continued development. Pop played him before. I think he’ll play Luka and see what he got.
I think Eubanks and KBD will get the least burn out of that 10 man roster.
We need spacing in the worst way, so shooters will be valuable while our guys are out.
All I'm saying is Lyles has lost a step from last year and it's evident that he's overall detrimental to the style of play Pop wants to play this season.
There were times we needed a center before this all happened and Pop was still reluctant to use Eubanks all the way.
I doubt it, but maybe you & DeJounte will be right.
I just think he'll roll with the known commodities in Eubanks & Lyles. He could see minutes in garbage time yet that would do little for his overall development.
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