Player The restricted-age video store section of Dylan Harper

[Maddog]

If Steph/Dylan are even remotely competent from 3, the sky really is the limit with this team. Just totally changes the dynamic of our offense if they're shooting >35% from deep and punishing teams for leaving them open.

If you guaranteed me that they'd both continue shooting like this in the playoffs, then I legitimately think we have as good of a chance at OKC (or at least damn close) at winning a title.

I think Dylan's shooting is real. He shot .333 in college on 5+ shots a game. Never watch any but suspect it wasn't always the best shot selection.
Castle still makes me nervous. That said he's above .300 for the year.

 

[dn0774]

I think Dylan's shooting is real. He shot .333 in college on 5+ shots a game. Never watch any but suspect it wasn't always the best shot selection.
Castle still makes me nervous. That said he's above .300 for the year.

I’m getting to the point where I feel pretty good about Castle or Harper taking catch and shoot 3s. The off the dribble 3s are what drag their percentages down from my eye. I don’t know where to pull those numbers from but would be curious to see them if someone who does know how is so inclined.

Im guessing the coaching staff has locked in on these trends and been in their ears. They can put in more work this off season and try more off the dribbles next year and see if their results improve. Wemby actually had the opposite issue, he shot them much better off the dribble and sucked at C&S when he first came over, not sure if he still has that issue.

 

[Seventyniner]

Hopefully they are hitting their stride at the right time and not blowing their load too early and go cold in the playoffs

It's an encouraging sign. It shows that the Spurs are capable of a sustained stretch of great shooting. Most playoff runs don't last 15 games.

 

[spurs3223]

Wonder if he has a killer showing against Kon in a few days, weather he can still put himself in the ROY convo. Feels like the ship has sailed, but I don’t think he gets enough credit for being an ESSENTIAL cog in our machine.

Ship has sailed, for sure. He'll make an all-rookie team tho. Kon and Coop are just obviously killing it from eye-test AND stats (buoyed by playing time). I wouldn't say it's similar to the (genuinely silly) Chet vs Wemby ROTY debate, because Harper could genuinely wind up being the best of all of them and Chet never had a real chance to turn out better than Wemby. But I didn't think the 'contributing to a contender' narrative carried a lot of weight for ROTY back then, and I still don't.
Not in a year so stacked with really, really good rookies who have been 'given the keys' a little sooner than our Mr. Harper. But don't worry -- he'll get his. We all know what's up around here.

 

[gilmor2002]

I mean, Ron Jr. outscored Dylan handily - but obviously, the Spurs won the game. It was meant tongue in cheek anyway, because I'm pretty sure nobody expected Ron to score 22 efficient points in this game.

No Jaylen Brown.. If Jaylen stayed in the game, RHJ wont score as many..

 

[BatManu20]

https://twitter.com/x/status/2031977969384882651

 

[Ice009]

No Jaylen Brown.. If Jaylen stayed in the game, RHJ wont score as many..

I know he had a great game because JB was out, but I mentioned signing him for the Spurs' G-League team back in the off-season, but no one at ST was interested (was pretty much crickets). I thought he might be a good option as a backup SF/PF. He's had some big games in the G-League, so he's shown a little bit that he can shoot/has improved there. Would have been interesting to have the brothers together on the team, but it sounds like that they're now looking to make their own paths and not join up according to what they said at the all-star game.

 

[Exstatic]

I know he had a great game because JB was out, but I mentioned signing him for the Spurs' G-League team back in the off-season, but no one at ST was interested (was pretty much crickets). I thought he might be a good option as a backup SF/PF. He's had some big games in the G-League, so he's shown a little bit that he can shoot/has improved there. Would have been interesting to have the brothers together on the team, but it sounds like that they're now looking to make their own paths and not join up according to what they said at the all-star game.

I think Justin Champagnie has been available a couple of times, too. Sometimes, brothers just want to forge their own paths.

 

[Mugen]

Dylan is damn strong for a rookie guard tbh.

 

[ambchang]

PG has often been cited as the most difficult position to master and there are very few point guards who just come in and be good immediately. Magic, cp3 and Jason Kidd come to mind but I remembered Payton was a disappointment coming into the league, Kevin Johnson took a few years (and a trade), mark price took a few years. Same with Stockton, and Nash. zeke was good but more as a scoring point at first, then took him a few years to learn, same with curry and of course our own Parker. Iverson stayed a scoring guard and I would say he never became a pg.

Point is Harper is showing point guard skills right off the gate, and I think his size and athleticism helps quite a bit in that regard. Hope he keeps developing.

 

[Ice009]

I think Justin Champagnie has been available a couple of times, too. Sometimes, brothers just want to forge their own paths.

I think they would have been open to it at the start of the season when Ron Harper Jr. wasn't with any team (one of the mains reasons I wanted him on the Spurs' G-League team is that I thought he could live with Dylan and help ease his transition to the NBA), but it seems at the all-star game, they were pretty set on forging their own paths. I think one of them mentioned (I think it was RHJ) if they were to play together, they'd maybe do it at the end of their careers.

 

[BatManu20]

He looks thrilled.

https://twitter.com/x/status/2032284946031607818