Mitch Is Preaching To The Choir/Can We Get The Wins A Little Higher...With Fox & Wemby We Gon Be Your Idol - 2025 San Antonio Spurs Season Thread

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Watching this Pelicans vs Warriors game right now and it shows a glaring weakness on our team. It’s the reason we had trouble with Steph this week and D Book a couple weeks ago. We need a long wing defender to put on these shifty guards. Hopefully Carter Bryant can be that in the long term but I think we gotta figure out something in the short term. I can see us having difficulty with the Shai, Jamal Murray, and obviously Steph in the playoffs.

Any trade candidates to fill that role?

It’s unreasonable to think Carter can step into that any time soon.

 

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Watching this Pelicans vs Warriors game right now and it shows a glaring weakness on our team. It’s the reason we had trouble with Steph this week and D Book a couple weeks ago. We need a long wing defender to put on these shifty guards. Hopefully Carter Bryant can be that in the long term but I think we gotta figure out something in the short term. I can see us having difficulty with the Shai, Jamal Murray, and obviously Steph in the playoffs.

Sochan is better served defending the Brons and Lukas of the league (slower (relatively speaking) stars). Castle does a decent job with the quicker guards, but his effectiveness depends on the refs letting him play physically. The real issue was Mitch seemingly having them play drop coverage and giving up the 3 instead of running the Warriors off the line.

Carter Bryant seems like he's a quicker defender than Sochan, but he's a rook and won't get much respect from the officiating. I honestly think if the Spurs look to improve via trade, it would be for more offense. Vic still has a bad habit of somehow getting forgotten offensively. Fox will continue to improve as he gets up to full speed following the hamstring. Barnes started cold, is red hot now, but likely will fall somewhere in the middle. Keldon hasn't made a 3 in like 6 games. Vassell has been decent. They're all flawed in some ways. I'd still be cool with consolidating some talent for a Lauri Markkanen to really lock down the offense for the foreseeable future.

 

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Sochan is better served defending the Brons and Lukas of the league (slower (relatively speaking) stars). Castle does a decent job with the quicker guards, but his effectiveness depends on the refs letting him play physically. The real issue was Mitch seemingly having them play drop coverage and giving up the 3 instead of running the Warriors off the line.

Carter Bryant seems like he's a quicker defender than Sochan, but he's a rook and won't get much respect from the officiating. I honestly think if the Spurs look to improve via trade, it would be for more offense. Vic still has a bad habit of somehow getting forgotten offensively. Fox will continue to improve as he gets up to full speed following the hamstring. Barnes started cold, is red hot now, but likely will fall somewhere in the middle. Keldon hasn't made a 3 in like 6 games. Vassell has been decent. They're all flawed in some ways. I'd still be cool with consolidating some talent for a Lauri Markkanen to really lock down the offense for the foreseeable future.

They’re gonna get killed with that drop coverage stuff in the playoffs because playoff teams are gonna have shooters that actually make shots.

And I don’t like the idea of going 3 pointer for 3 pointer with this Spurs roster.

 

[BodieBroadus]

Speaking of our drop coverage…

 

[AlbertPullhoez]

 

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To those on Twitter who been crying for Sochan minutes...here you go.

 

[BodieBroadus]

Ain’t gonna hear the end of it from all those “guys his size can’t stay healthy” mf’ers now.

 

[Don Homer]

hopefully it's ~2 weeks. He wont be eligible for awards if it's much longer

 

[duckbutta]

Good thing we signed Fox to that max to carry us while Wemby out

Now we just need to play the Kings for the next 2 to 6 weeks and we good

 

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hopefully it's ~2 weeks. He wont be eligible for awards if it's much longer

I'm actually happy with that. Think that keeps the max level down on the contract extension.

 

[Dallas' 4 Eva]

Make sure he is healthy when he comes back, last thing we need is him hurting himself seriously.

 

[Don Homer]

I'm actually happy with that. Think that keeps the max level down on the contract extension.

wemby's getting the max lol regardless

 

[VBM]

wemby's getting the max lol regardless

But doesn't it affect max vs supermax? Edit: nevermind, he hasn't played enough years for that.