AggieEP said:
You've seen my posts, I'm mostly peeved we didn't give a look to Devin Carter. He could have been part of the developmental plan without mucking anything else up cap wise.
As far as free agents, you have to pay to play unfortunately which is why I can't understand why the Spurs wouldn't opt for the low cost control option of using a draft pick, even if we traded back to 15 or so you could take a wing prospect and see if you can get Naji or SloMo production for a fraction the cost.
Also, you've seen my posts, I always want to win, I'd be excited to be the 7 or 8 seed this year. The Astros style "be the worst team for 3-4 years strategy sucks for fans.
I can understand not wanting to miss on Carter, but like others said, we don't know what he will become, and even those of us that liked him a lot (like me) didn't think his likely outcome would be a Derrick White level starter.
And remember that Derrick White's first five seasons in the NBA were 11.5ppg, 3.3rpg, 3.8apg, .442 FG% .340 3pt%. And Derrick was a ready to play 23yo senior.
Naji Marshall and SloMo were both guys that I was promoting for a couple months on here.
If our off season was Castle+Carter+Nunez+Ingram then signing Paul for 11MM and Naji or SloMo for the rest of the space, we have too many players, so who are you getting rid of? Also, Naji would have to want to sign with us over having a big role on the team that just went to he Finals or SloMo would have to choose us over GSW.
There were not really any wing prospects available that would give you the type of player archetype of Naji or SloMo available. We think they wanted Salaun, but he went 6th and he is a long term project.
Even making all those moves, I don't think this Spurs team is a top 6 team in the West. Remember Memphis will be much better with JaMorant back all year. We are still likely a bottom 5 in the West team. Even with a Warriors drop off, they still had 46 wins and we had 22. Don't think we are jumping them (and Memphis and Houston)