Good post.
As you wrote, I'd like for Castle to focus on being the best version of the player he currently is rather than trying to work on too many things at once and having flaws all across the board.
FTs should be the priority, finishing around the rim will probably improve with experience and body development.
He needs a reliable FT line jumpshot and some kind of floater. Kind of how Fox does it. He'd be unstoppable on the inside.
3pt shooting will come over the next few years, we shouldn't expect too much right away.
Fox is also good at drawing fouls, and Wemby should be. I think the Spurs should have an official FTA target key metric going into next season... something like 18/game between those 3 guys. If you can hit that, you'd probably doing a good job.
Edit: 18 is probably way too high... maybe it's more like 14... but my point is the same.
Steph got selected for ROY on 8 of the 9 ballots released publicly so far (Bontemps took Risacher).
Bontemps is either a complete tool, a Spurs hater, or both.
I used to listen to a ton of Zach Lowe podcasts and Bontemps was by far my least favorite guest. Dude had horrible takes and was just outright dismissive of anything he didn't agree with. He was beating the drum for Chet ROY even into late last season.
He didn't even have Wemby on his top 3 for DPOY last year allegedly
Wow. If that is true, the guy is a fool.
There were a bunch of ballots that didn't have Wemby top 3 for DPOY last year because of how bad the rest of the team was. ing moronic.
Stephon Castle-
Ranked 25th in total fast break points with 224
Ranked 42nd in the NBA with 588 points in the paint
Ranked 42nd In the NBA with a 26.0% usage rate
Ranked 21st in the NBA in free throw rate with 34.8%
Castle has such a superior aura, tbh.
So clear-headed about the team future here. I don't care how good you are, your best players have to be galvanizing forces with unmistakable leadership qualities. In Wemby, and hopefully Castle as the main sidekick, Spurs finally reestablish that leadership-talent double structure that was sorely missed after Timmy/Manu retired ending in that spectacular fiasco of non-leader Kawhi hiding in New York hotels as he schemed his way out of town while watching us limp to the playoffs.
I think he just sees a business opportunity being the contrarian. I don’t dislike his analysis overall but his voice on those podcasts is SO grating and whinny.
Didn't someone say that Pop told Kawhi to sit out the season (I could be remembering wrong)? I saw in mentioned here recently that he wanted to play, and it was Pop that told him to sit out the season. Maybe he never goes to NY if he was playing?
No. The Spurs medical staff told him he had a degenerative knee issue that’s not going away and it’s a matter of managing his load in the future. He didn’t like what he heard and went doctor shopping until he found a doctor who agreed with whatever opinion he wanted to hear. Allegedly.
Needless to say, in retrospect, the Spurs were correct.
I think there was reporting that once Feb/Mar of that cursed season rolled around patfo approached Kawhi and his camp about the prospect of announcing Kawhi as out for the season. The thought behind that being to stem mounting media attention regarding Kawhi’s availability and because the season was clearly in ‘lost cause’ territory.
Kawhi and his people didn’t want him officially shut down (due to degenerative condition) as that would’ve conceivably hurt his future earnings potential, hence why they were doctor shopping for any doc who would say it wasn’t degenerative.
I think there was reporting that once Feb/Mar of that cursed season rolled around patfo approached Kawhi and his camp about the prospect of announcing Kawhi as out for the season. The thought behind that being to stem mounting media attention regarding Kawhi’s availability and because the season was clearly in ‘lost cause’ territory.
Kawhi and his people didn’t want him officially shut down (due to degenerative condition) as that would’ve conceivably hurt his future earnings potential, hence why they were doctor shopping for any doc who would say it wasn’t degenerative.
Alright, that all makes sense from both sides. I sort of wondered why Kawhi's side didn't want him to be announced as out for the season, especially after he took off to NY. It was all to do with his perceived value going forward.
Let's not forget we have this demon on our roster too. Just an astonishing backcourt upgrade for the Spurs in less than a year.
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