Player The restricted-age video store section of Dylan Harper

[scott]

I know it’s blasphemy to say Harper coming off the bench on his 2nd year. But that’s the correct lineup with him continuing the helm. And the Spurs will have continued facilitator every time. Devin has fitted perfectly as a shooter and compliments perfectly in the SL. Why put him to the bench and disrupt the synergy? Harper is fine and will get his chance. As long as they’re winning. Everybody’s checking out their ego.

It would be quite interesting if the Spurs had back-to-back 6MOY, but who were different players who were both on the team for each year.

The Clippers did this in 2018-19 and 2019-20 with Lou Williams and Montrez Harrell. That was a span where the Clippers actually had 3 6MOY in a row (Lou Williams back to back and the front end) and 4 out of 5 (Jamal Crawford) and 5 out of 7 (Jamal Crawford again... and ironically the guy who split Crawford's two awards... Lou Williams when he was a Raptor).

Despite Williams (3) and Crawford (3) winning this award a bunch of times... I'm still willing to fight anyone that Manu is the greatest 6th man of all time... but I do think it's a fair argument that it was cheating to put him on the bench to begin with.

 

[Mugen]

Part of being a great 6th man is the willingness to accept the role in the first place tbh. Manu is the greatest 6th man of all time.

 

[DAF86]

Back in the day, 6 MoY used to be "scoring title for guys coming off the bench". In today's NBA, Manu would have double digits 6th MoY awards, tbh. The award would be named after him, probably.

 

[Seventyniner]

its either this or cutting games played down to about 70

or if you want to get spicy, keep the current slate of 82 games, but no individual player can play more than 70 games. forced rest, so depth matters even more

I am highly in favor of this. Basketball is such a top-heavy sport, it would be good to reward depth. This is how you have your cake (82 games) and eat it too (fewer injuries, less wear and tear).

No limits in the playoffs of course.

 

[John B]

Just remember Steve Nash backed up KJ and Kidd, and remained to have limited role until after his 2nd year.

 

[scott]

Back in the day, 6 MoY used to be "scoring title for guys coming off the bench". In today's NBA, Manu would have double digits 6th MoY awards, tbh. The award would be named after him, probably.

Should be named after him anyway, IMO, and would be if not for him being so recently retired. He has an infinite % more 6MOY trophy's than the guy it is currently named after.

 

[couchman]

yep, this is why many think trading our FRP for future flexibility is a likely outcome, particularly with CB primed to take a leap and take on more of those PF and small-ball C minutes.

our pending FA's are: Harrison Barnes, Kelly Olynyk, Bismack Biyombo, Jordan McLaughlin, Lindy Waters, and Mason Plumlee. the only rotation player there is Barnes, and CB should be able to absorb most of those minutes, and thats assuming we dont bring HB back cheap. i think having McLaughlin back would be nice as well but the rest are non-factors in the rotation, so we dont have any major holes to plug

and if we did want to pick up an additional rotation player, we have the full MLE and even the BAE at our disposal

I agree that we are likely to trade away our FRP for future assets, probably a pick swap or something like that. I've posted similar thoughts on that before.

 

[dn0774]

Just remember Steve Nash backed up KJ and Kidd, and remained to have limited role until after his 2nd year.

Should be noted Nash was a starter in his 3rd year…for a different team lol. Make no mistake, assuming Harper hits anywhere close to his ceiling (and early indications look promising), BWright will have a difficult thread to needle. We all love to talk about Harden coming off the bench for 3 years but ultimately he hit his heights with a different team.

We have to keep Dylan motivated and engaged in his role off the bench and simultaneously not overplay it to the point where damage is done to the relationship between player and FO/coaching staff. Winning of course helps a lot. I’m not convinced just trotting out Manu Ginobili and saying “see, he did it so you can too” is going to give positive results.

Dylan is 20 years old and has dreams of being a superstar (and the talent to get there), far be it for the Spurs to hold him back.