The San Antonio Spurs have assigned forward Zach Collins to the Austin Spurs

[John B]

Is Zollins in or out? SB Nation has Spurs showing full roster.

[exstatic]

Forbes (the culprit in not keeping one of Luka/Amina) being shipped out for Hernangomez makes a lot sense right now. I mean, there's no one Hernangomez is worse than the two forwards we already cut, right?

Aminu is gone because he’s washed. Samanic is gone because SA converted KBD’s second year of a 2 way to an NBA 15 man roster contract. They’re both power forwards, and we kept the best one. Do you get it yet? KBD sent Samanic packing.

[exstatic]

Is Zollins in or out? SB Nation has Spurs showing full roster.

Zollins and Primo will always show on SA’s roster, no matter where they’re playing. They’re signed to full time NBA contracts.

[John B]

Zollins and Primo will always show on SA’s roster, no matter where they’re playing. They’re signed to full time NBA contracts.

[TD 21]

Let’s see what we have and if he’s a keeper.

Tier 1 (Keepers)
Murray

Tier 2 ( Wait and see )
Primo - only because he has shown promise and it’s way too early to let go
Vassell - I try to compare his trajectory with Murray. Did Murray flash some greatness by year 3 (non injury year)? Next year is important for Vassell to gauge his ceiling. Hopefully, he works on the right things. Right now, he’s in the weird phase of trying different things on offense. He’s nowhere near physical enough to be an ISO scorer.

Tier 3 (Culture/ Vet building blocks)
White - but with a reducing role over time, i.e. he goes to the bench. White can become the embodiment of Spurs culture
Keldon - Only if they’re able to keep him at a decent salary
Landale - he’s serviceable. A good guy and is on a cheap salary. No downsides here if they can keep him.
McDermott - It’s great to have a tall shooter after not having one for years. Every team needs a guy like McD.

Tier 4 (For the right deal, trade them)
Poeltl - Early on the season, the team faltered while he was out. I’m thinking now that it was because Eubanks is that bad. Poeltl shines from time to time, but he makes me pull my hair out from time to time.
KBD - honestly a weird tier for KBD to be in since he probably has no trade value. But I think he’s good enough to think twice about letting him go

Tier 5 (Meh, trade them if you can)
Tre Jones
Lonnie Walker
Thad Young


Tier 6 (just let these dudes go. They hurt the team)
Eubanks

Tierless (not sure what to do with these guys)
Cacok
Wieskamp
Hernangomez

I suspect they'd have Johnson in 2, Poeltl in 3, McDermott and Landale in 4, Bates-Diop and Wieskamp in 5 and Walker IV in 6.

Best case scenario for Collins is probably 4.

[tim_duncan_fan]

Until DJM consistently gets to the FT, I cannot call him a tier 1 player. I see him as a very good Robin, “almost” Pippen good 2way player. But he still needs a Batman.

Devin could very well be a 20+/7/3/2 guy. I don’t know if he could be a Batman though. I still don’t see that Alpha mentality in him, but maybe because he is still in his 2nd year and still getting in line. But he is a very smooth capable scorer, and he’s just going to get better the stronger he gets.

Primo, well he has the Tier 1 mentality. Let’s see if his skills catch up. He’s still very raw.

The rest are role players and could part with when opportunity to trade for a tier 1 arise.

I agree with this.

Also, we are wasting time by not seeing if Vassell can handle more shots. Not sure if that's him being fearful or the team just not recognizing him.

[exstatic]

I agree with this.

Also, we are wasting time by not seeing if Vassell can handle more shots. Not sure if that's him being fearful or the team just not recognizing him.

Devins and McDs minutes need to be swapped.

[John B]

Devins and McDs minutes need to be swapped.

Truth

[RC_Drunkford]

Vassell is averaging 25.2 minutes
McDermott 24.5

I don’t know what swapping their minutes would change tbh

[wildbill2u]

Devins and McDs minutes need to be swapped.

Why not give Vassell a shot at starting SF. Then you have two good shooters on either side of Poertl with Murray out front teamed with White. I'm not a big Johnson fan at this point.

[MultiTroll]

Vassell is averaging 25.2 minutes
McDermott 24.5

I don’t know what swapping their minutes would change tbh

Another of his genius posts.
paging Mr. Peletron.

[MultiTroll]

Why not give Vassell a shot at starting SF. Then you have two good shooters on either side of Poertl with Murray out front teamed with White. I'm not a big Johnson fan at this point.

This.
However Johnson is being forced to play 4 when in reality he is a 3-4 and depending on the matchup should often be a 3.
So we have a good problem in that there is a logjam at the 3.
Bad in that no other team wants McD at his contract. Another PATFO Special.

[KingKev]

This.
However Johnson is being forced to play 4 when in reality he is a 3-4 and depending on the matchup should often be a 3.
So we have a good problem in that there is a logjam at the 3.
Bad in that no other team wants McD at his contract. Another PATFO Special.

I’s like to see Vassell get most of his minutes at the 2, Keldon at the 3. Ideally both as backups. White and McD opportunistically traded.

[KingKev]

Zach headed back to Austin. Must not be over himself lol as Austin doesn’t play at home till next Sunday and we are in Texas most of this week.

[BackHome]

I read somewhere that he is going to play in 4 more G League games to get his basketball conditioning up and learn scheme.

On another note I know he could not do any running with a broken ankle but man he is skinny he looks like he has never picked up a weight in his life. He should have at least added 10 pounds of muscle on his upper and then work on them Chicken legs after his ankle healed up.

[exstatic]

Zach headed back to Austin. Must not be over himself lol as Austin doesn’t play at home till next Sunday and we are in Texas most of this week.

SA has a quick out and back roadie to Houston. I’m sure Zach is just practicing and conditioning with them

[KingKev]

SA has a quick out and back roadie to Houston. I’m sure Zach is just practicing and conditioning with them

I’m totally fine with it, he can take his time down there unless they are considering moving Jak and want confirmation he can start. I’m pretty sure they are going to guarantee next year so long as he remains healthy.

[ace3g]

Spurs up 78-73 in the 3rd

https://gleague.nba.com/games/20220127/SXFAUS/


Austin Spurs

	POS	MIN	FGM-A	3PM-A	FTM-A	+/-	OREB	DREB	REB	AST	PF	STL	TO	BS	BA	PTS
Joe Wieskamp 15	SF	20	4-7	1-4	0-0	-2	0	1	1	1	4	0	1	0	0	9
Devontae Cacok 18	PF	24	8-12	0-1	2-2	-3	4	4	8	1	4	0	4	0	0	18
Zach Collins 23	C	18	6-9	1-1	1-2	-2	4	10	14	3	2	0	0	2	0	15
Damyean Dotson 2	SG	20	3-8	1-2	0-0	2	0	2	2	3	0	0	0	0	0	7
Joshua Primo 11	PG	16	3-6	0-1	0-0	-6	0	1	1	4	4	0	2	0	0	6

[ace3g]

[Allan Rowe vs Wade]

give z the rest of the year to get 100% fit and healthy if he needs it

[Degoat]

Haven’t watched the game but the box score is looking nice for Collins!

[John B]

15 pts in 18 mins. Zollins been busy

[ace3g]

NBA G League @nbagleague




22 points and 10 rebounds. Devontae Cacok just notched his 15TH CONSECUTIVE double-double for the @austin_spurs



9:25pm · 27 Jan 2022 · Twitter Web App

[ace3g]

Spurs win 119-97

Austin Spurs

	POS	MIN	FGM-A	3PM-A	FTM-A	+/-	OREB	DREB	REB	AST	PF	STL	TO	BS	BA	PTS
Joe Wieskamp 15	SF	27	5-10	1-5	0-0	1	2	2	4	1	5	0	1	0	1	11
Devontae Cacok 18	PF	30	10-18	0-1	2-3	-1	4	6	10	2	6	0	4	0	0	22
Zach Collins 23	C	27	6-13	1-3	1-2	7	5	13	18	3	3	0	1	2	0	15
Damyean Dotson 2	SG	25	4-9	2-3	0-0	6	0	2	2	5	1	0	1	0	0	10
Joshua Primo 11	PG	24	7-10	3-4	1-2	-3	0	1	1	5	4	2	3	0	0	18

[slick'81]

Cacok on fire