I get it. I just personally have shorter patience with projects as we’ve gone through several bad ones. It is also my observation as well that most good players show competency almost immediately in their first year in the NBA. These projects that turn good are rare or much less common.
You never get bored of bad takes, do you?
I’ve always seen DJG as a stretch 4, tbhI think we have to try this lineup
Wemby, Fox, Harper, Castle, DJG
no, they learned not to be retarded along the way
I don’t think that will be an issue for years. The owners, in their greed to split the cash pie only 30 ways instead of 32, have pretty much spiked expansion for now.
If you’re not drafting top 4, which we’ve been lucky enough to do 3 straight years, everyone is a project.
Not really. There are players that are useful out of the gate - like that Will Richard guy starting for the Warriors right now. All I’m saying is that guys who are useful immediately tend to be the ones who are decent players in the NBA later on. More common than players who are learning for four years.
Obviously a good problem to have (two-way player potentially breaking out and deserving of an actual role), but it's unfortunate that it's at a position where there's already a bit of a logjam. I guess McLaughlin/Waters are the obvious odd men out and maybe that opens up ~10 mpg or so as a baseline...and then on nights where he's playing well you let him eat into some other guys' roles.
Then again, the way this season is going injury-wise I'm not sure it's worth worrying about "well what are we going to do when we're at full strength?"
McLaughlin and Waters are sort of filler players that can eat some spot minutes without being catastrophic. McLaughlin is a reliable ball handler and he can make open shots. Waters is a capable shooter who is somewhat slight but not an abysmal liability on defense as long as he isnt taking on the hardest assignment. It's the same story with Biyombo really, though unlike the guards, he has been catastrophic during his minutes.
They're very capable third stringers to me, and that's great to have.
DJG’s listing on BBREF has him at 6’6” and a SF.
Well let's hope that one is right. The Spurs and the NBA have him at 6'4".
No. He was measured in the 2024 pre draft combine. He measured 6'3.5" no shoes.
im not really worried about Minix and Ingram. they've played 3 games apiece.
yep, he measured 6'3.5" with 6'6.75" wingspan, 34.5inc max vert.
i dont really think you send DJG back to austin at this point. you let him keep getting spot minutes even as our guys return. if he continues to play at a solid level, then as he's approaching the game limit (by then you'd have a solid sense of how things are going), you just convert him to a standard contract, potentially a multiyear one. they can let McLaughlin or Biyombo go.
I think he’s absolutely going back to Austin. They spent money and gleague draft voices to stack the team around CB, and yes, he’s going to Austin, too. They wanted someone to score and also dish. When the rest of the guards come back, there just won’t be any minutes.
Agreed! Getting DJG and CB to develop some chemistry in Austin would be a great idea. AND, I could see a few home games while they are there. The trade deadline could be interesting for the Spurs this year again.
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Carter Bryant will be fine. He was always raw. He reminds me of Anounoby when he came into the league
