Yeah I would have to agree with mystargt but I see we’re you coming from as far as minutes- My take though I see more of Blake as a PG and Sidy to me is a SG/SF two totally different body types. As far as minutes I don’t see it as an issue as Sidy definitely will be placed in G League
I'll put my comparison to Wesley aside. Doesn't make sense. But Cissoko is very different body-wise to Rupert. He's much bigger and stronger. Frankly, he has a much bigger basket of skills, now that I'm looking at him. Not only can he probably guard a wider range of players, his path to success on the other end seems wider.
Sidy has a much safer floor imo Rupert seems like ones of those intriguing international players that fizzles out. One has to wonder if given the opportunity Sidy will be able to show even more too because this past season he had to share the court with all g-league ignite guys.
The thing that could put the value of this pick over the top might come down to whether Cissoko is willing to accept a 2-way contract. If he agrees to that then this is a really really nice pick.
Even if he insists on a full roster spot it's still not a bad pick. But the roster crunch will be tighter.
I think Birch or Langford's spots are open?
After this year, the team will have a crazy amount of choices to make.
I think there's a decent chance in a few years Cissoko ends up the best of the bunch. Or at least the best value, I feel much more comfortable with Cissoko at 44 than I'd feel mortgaging the future to trade up to 7 for Coulibaly.
Spurs have some tough decisions, maybe guys will move onto other places but I see the roster shaping kinda like this
ZC/Bassey/Barlow
Wemby/Sochan/Mamu
KJ/Doug/Sidy
Dev/Malaki/Julian
Tre/Wesley/Graham
Thats a full 15 man roster as is, that means KBD, Langford, Birch, Dieng are gone.
Guys on the bubble are Barlow, Julian, Mamu, Graham, Bassey, but I think the spurs keep most if not all of them. Guess I could be wrong tho
Tre/ Wesley/ Graham
Vassell/ Branham/ Julian
Sochan/ Keldon/ Sidy
Wemby/ Doug/ Barlow
Collins/ Mamu/ Bassey
Graham is pretty secure IMO. He's due 12mil this year and Spurs could easily cut him before the season after next with little guaranteed money. They're also paper thin at PG and need shooters.
Switch Wesley/Graham and Mamu/Bassey around and you'll get what I think should be the opening day rotation. Though I do think they'll bring in a FA this summer that will be penciled in for rotation minutes right off the bat. Probably a big IMO.
But god help this FO if they decide to bring KBD and Dieng back to take up roster spots.
Brian Wright speaks on Cissoko at 1:58: "we were ecstatic that he was there, he was someone we were considering if we'd stayed at 33, so to get him at 44 we thought that was great"
1:08... and they say he can't shoot the 3
We STAAAAAACKED!!!!!!!
What else is he going to say? “Yeah, we wanted to sell the pick, but there were no takers.”
We STAAAAAACKED!!!!!!!
Yeah, Bilal at 7 might be a reach but in a vacuum give me Coulibaly over Cissoko everyday... He clearly has the biggest upside. Sidy is very raw and will never be more than end of bench, 3rd string guy at best, which is what most players picked in that area can hope for, the majority disappearing within the next 3 years. Bilal has elite role player/star potential, a Batum type of potential (but different players ofc).
Prolly I'm a bit biased but I like Cissoko more than Rupert due to the body frame - I don't have much idea about them prior to the draft.
Seems Cissoko will be a good role player potential like a early years of Jimmy Butler type who's more focused on defensive end with a little bit of offense and can be thrown to opposing stars to defend them physically.
Rupert on the hand seems like a Jonathon Simmons or a better Romeo Langford. lol
Looks like maybe they're looking for this guy to grow a bit into a big wing. He just turned 19.
I would quibble with the terminology "not a very willing passer". Cam Whitmore, at 0.7 assts/gm is not a willing passer. Sidy, at 3.1 assts/gm is a willing passer. You can pick over if his passes are at an advanced level, or basic, but he does pass the ball frequently and willingly.
The "we would have taken him with this pick but we were happy to get him with the later pick" talk is always funny cause if they were that high on the player they would have taken him at 33
“We were really high on the player, but not so high that we wanted to pay him guaranteed money, and not so high that we weren’t willing to risk losing him by passing on him at 33 in exchange for inferior picks years from now.”The "we would have taken him with this pick but we were happy to get him with the later pick" talk is always funny cause if they were that high on the player they would have taken him at 33
That is a good take I remember watching some of the Warriors Playoff games and the games they won they had Steph who was hitting the 3 ball but they had some other players who were just attacking the rim relentlessly. That is one thing that both Blake and Branham need to work on is finishing through contact but something that Sidy does very well.
I really like that Sidy played PG as kid so he has decent handles with court vision which will really help him develop into SG/SF. He is a nice development piece who I think might have a future as a legitimate backup in a Playoff team which would be a home run for us. Man definitely going to have to see Summer League we going to probably see Wemby, Sochan, Blake, Branham, and Sidy playing
langford is a free agent, and i cant fathom them bringing him back.
birch is on a guaranteed contract, but i think there's potential for him to just be ruled out for the year and the team tries to get the disabled players exception which would be worth about 3.5 mil
He could have said a lot of things without using the words "ecstatic" and "great" and mentioning #33. Like "he's an interesting player, [random description of his qualities and character] so we thought he was a good option for us at 44". Didn't need to go the extra mile. Wright is careful when he states something, but he doesn't come across to me as full of BS, he's careful with his wording but not deceiving. I believe what he said.
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