CALL YOUR SHOT: The 2025-26 BaselineBums Bold Predictions Thread

-Wemby in the realm of 27/13/4/4, taking closer to 5 3s per, but continues to attack the rim and draw fouls and cleans up the stupid TOs.
-Fox shares the ball a lot more, proving he came here to win, not to score. He looks a lot like Tony from 05'-08', but gets back to 36-37%. His attempts fall to 15-16 FGA but his efficiency is excellent and he is more free to gamble in the passing lanes than ever before. Goes 21/4/7.5/2+ and his shooting looks a lot like his '23-24' yr. Fox returns on National TV against the Lakers 11-5.
-Castle makes the jump to clear #3, media stirs the Fox/Castle pot until New Years as Castle plays like a #2 until Fox returns in November and Spurs rocket to 6-0. Castle handles the transition just like he handled his UConn role, focuses on lock-down D and gets All-D votes. Puts up close to 20/g without Fox, closer to 16 upon his return. Finishes 17/6/4/2 on low volume by getting his FTrate up to 40% from 35% last yr. People really start the Jimmy Butler comps. 3% improves to 33+%
-Harp leads the bench, plays primary initiator for Keldon and Korndog, hits spot-ups with the starters. Pleasantly surprise the board with his shooting and maturity but has rookie up/downs. Finishes #3 in ROY but everyone sees the Superstar potential. He gets about 13/3/4 per.
-Keldon and Vassell keep up they're pre-season play. Vassell puts his "main character" energy into D and becomes a more steady/smart shooter- 14ish on .47/.38/.80 splits. Keldon keeps bringing the energy and intensity but probably gets less than 10 per because its rare to have 6 guys average 10+. He keeps boarding and turns his "black hole" in high-voltage microwave gets us back into some games we would otherwise lose.

Rest of the team accounts for about 20 per, with Korndog and Champ getting most of that.
-Barnes regresses to 38% 3pt shooter he was until his outlier season last yr and loses minutes to Champ and Oly and Korn. Becomes an expendable and value expiring + solid vet/rotation guy for a team in need.
-Sochan is the odd man out, becoming the bench D-specialist he should be until proven otherwise. Sochan either grow TF up, learns, and develops for next yr w/o Barnes/Oly or pouts and Spurs aggressively look to move him.
-Champ ends up playing a lot of PF minutes, doesn't get many shoots but takes almost all of them from 3 and shoots better from 3 than Barnes.
-Kornet gets career high in minutes, absolutely wrecks the O-boards, and we get 8+ minutes of French Vanilla
Spurs mostly run a 9 man rotation of Fox/Wemby/Castle/Vassell/Harp/Champ/Korn/Barnes/Keldon with all those guys getting 20+ minutes.
-Bryant goes to the G league when Oly gets back to develop. Joins the big club around New Years, and shows a equal amount of promise and rookie struggle when he gets back. But he progresses through the season and is ready to give 8-10 good minutes a game by the time Sochan/Barnes get moved.
Either Sochan or Barnes are traded by the deadline. Spurs also field offers for Vassell and Keldon, but those guys finally turned a corner and don't get moved for less than real value bc Spurs love both, are happy were their play, and think both help get them to the Play-offs this yr.
Keldon Johnson wins 6MOTY and is a big part in Spurs getting a Top 3 seed 😀
Champaignie starts at power forward.
Avery Johnson predicts MVP and DPOY for Wemby.

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Spurs will meet OKC in the WCF and lose in 7 games. OKC will beat Boston in 6 to win their second straight championship.

Not exactly a bold prediction, but probably a correct one.
 
"Sochan is the odd man out, becoming the bench D-specialist he should be until proven otherwise. Sochan either grow TF up, learns, and develops for next yr w/o Barnes/Oly or pouts and Spurs aggressively look to move him."

Pretty good one, except Sochan didn't pout. He was a pro about it.
 
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