Bornstellar wrote:San Antonio Spurs
*Note I have no idea who Pop plans on starting aside from probably Jak and Murray. Spurs also have too many players on the roster so there will definitely be changes prior to the season. But as of now:
Poeltl/Eubanks/Landale
McDermott/T. Young/Samanic/Aminu
K. Johnson/Vassell
White/Walker/Forbes/Primo
Murray/T. Jones
My guess is Spurs will run a lot of 3 or 4 guard lineups and play a lot of smallball this year. I would hope without Mills to play backup PG now that Pop learns how to staggers Murray and White so that one of them is always out there running the offense.
Biggest needs
1. Legit #1 option/star player
2. 3&D SFs or really any legit big wing players
3. Stretch big(s) that can play defense
4. Shooters in general
Ok so I'm going to disagree right off the bat. I think our depth chart will be as follows:
Keldon/Thad/Eubanks
Vassell/McDermott/Samanic
Poeltl/Z.Collins/Jock
White/Walker/Primo
Murray/Forbes/Tre
Of course alot of those guys will move between positions; Thad will play small ball 5, McD will play small-ball 4, Eubanks will be functionally a 5 most times he gets on the court, but in terms of thinking about who gets minutes this is a more useful representation of our depth. I mean you have Forbes as the 3rd shooting guard dude. We didn't just pay him a decent chunk of change to be a 3rd stringer. He's filling the Patty role off the bench, which is fine because Walker/whoever will be the creator when he's the nominal point guard.
McDermott could start, but I think it'll be Vassell. Vassell might only get 24 minutes a game, with McD getting about the same, but Vassell's defense makes more sense in the starting line-up. It's the same reason you start Poeltl. Defensive players have the biggest impact when they're guarding the other teams best offensive players. Offensive players have an impact whenever you play them. It's part of the reason DeLoser should have been coming off the bench last year. Our first 5 guys will probably be White, Keldon, Poeltl, Murray and Vassell, in that order of importance. First 4 off the bench, also in order of importance, will be Thad, McD, Walker and Forbes. If Zach Collins gets back to where he was and is healthy, I could see him starting over Vassell, or at least getting big bench minutes. He was starting in Portland and doing well there, and that would let us put Keldon at the 3 without sacrificing D in the starting unit.
Jock, Eubanks, Tre and Samanic will probably get minutes when guys are out, on back to backs, etc. Primo will be in Austin lighting it up. Tre might start to steal the back-up 1 minutes from Forbes before long.
With that in mind, the Spurs don't need depth pieces. They need star power. I don't see how they'd add rotation pieces who would upgrade over what we have, because why is the other team trading you said piece? The guy also hasn't been through training camp, and guys on our team play best when they've had a chance to learn the system etc, it's one reason we rarely make midseason trades.
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