Player The Refurbished Budget Wine Cellar of Julian Champagnie

[couchman]

Champ really struggled when he came off the bench last year. I hope tonight was just a weird blip because he will continue to come off the bench. He was wide open on some of those 3s he bricked tonight. By far his worst game of the season so far.

 

[SpursFan86]

Champagnie is a fine player, especially for his contract. He really shouldn’t be a huge part of the rotation though tbh…on a contender he’s a 10-15 mpg guy, not a 25-30 mpg one.

 

[PanameSpur]

How the size of a contract influence judgment ...

He makes us forget his low IQ with occasional great games, he should never be given the ball on transition, just catch and shoot.

It should be a key rule in the locker room.

 

[scott]

Champagnie is a fine player, especially for his contract. He really shouldn’t be a huge part of the rotation though tbh…on a contender he’s a 10-15 mpg guy, not a 25-30 mpg one.

He actually played fine on offense tonight, his shot just wasn't falling. He took the shoots he's supposed to take, he just missed them all. Every player has bad shooting nights, the fact that Champ has so many of them is why he's a role player on a bargain contract. Teams need those guys too, we just can't over-rely on them. He did contribute 3 steals tonight, but he was also part of giving up way too many wide open 3s.

 

[Em-City]

Danny Green vibes, minus the elite (but tolerable) defense ?

 

[Em-City]

Champagnie is a fine player, especially for his contract. He really shouldn’t be a huge part of the rotation though tbh…on a contender he’s a 10-15 mpg guy, not a 25-30 mpg one.

He's a 10-15 min guy on a healthy Spurs squad too.. but obviously gets more minutes where there are injuries to our guards and wings.

If harper wasn't out he might even be a dnp-cd

 

[spursparker9]

He real role is his 'passive skill' effect to space the floor tbh

Hitting shots is a bonus. Avoiding his patented step out of bound in the corner and getting stripped while in transition would be great as well

 

[SpursFan86]

He actually played fine on offense tonight, his shot just wasn't falling. He took the shoots he's supposed to take, he just missed them all. Every player has bad shooting nights, the fact that Champ has so many of them is why he's a role player on a bargain contract. Teams need those guys too, we just can't over-rely on them. He did contribute 3 steals tonight, but he was also part of giving up way too many wide open 3s.

Yeah, I guess my point is that if we’re counting on him to play 25+ mpg a night (currently at 29 mpg this season) then that most likely means we’re over-relying on him. I like Champagnie and think he’s a great 9th or 10th man for his contract.

Obviously injuries have probably been part of the reason he’s playing the amount of minutes he has so far, and if we made the playoffs the rotation naturally shortens anyways…but really I think the story is that we’re still missing a solid 3&D wing who is capable of playing 25-30 mpg. I don’t think Champagnie is that guy (which isn’t an indictment, again you can’t really ask for more from a guy making $3MM/year).