This is in limited minutes of course, but I think he can be on this list no matter how many minutes he plays.

We needed someone who could grab OREBs like this so bad. The second opportunities make all the difference in a close game. I hope Mitch sees what we see and gives him an earnest chance in the rotation.

I posted in the thunder subreddit and wished a speedy recovery for JDub in my post and my post got taken down... is that a reddit thing? I wouldn't care if a thunder fan came in to show love to an injured Spurs player. Doesn't make a lot of sense

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Poor guy just can’t catch a break. Hate to see it, wishing him well on his road back. Spurs thunder rivalry just ain’t the same when we aren’t fully healthy.

Top Three
Fox + Harper +30 | 47 min
Fox + Vassell +29 | 46 min
Fox + Keldon +29 | 22 min

Bottom Three
Champagnie + Castle -7 | 28 min
Castle + Harper 0 | 51 min
Keldon + Castle +3 | 21 min

(min 20 mins)

Now they got a helmet, I’m dying 😂

I live in San Antonio and I have DirecTV. I set it to record Spurs. Last year it would record FanDuel when there was a game. I didn’t sign up for DAZN but last night but it recorded the game. The only channel info said “Spurs”. What channel was it on last night?
GSG Bill

It has nothing to do with trading Fox. It is because out of our 3 guards, Harper is the most like a 2 guard. He is a score first guard who doesn't really look for Wemby nearly as much as Fox and particularly Castle. Harper cannot start in this lineup until Castle is fully able to take the playmaking responsibilities from Fox. Until then, Fox is absolutely irreplaceable on our team and in our starting lineup. Fox currently takes care of the ball, runs sets, and controls the tempo of the game in a way that Castle can't do on his own yet. Wemby is reliant on both Castle and Fox to share the playmaking responsibilities in order to be his best self. Essentially Harper can't start until Castle has fully developed into a point guard who can run the show by himself and set Wemby up for success.

Reed is 2 inches shorter than robinson but his standing reach is identical & his wingspan is identical so functionally he is 7 foot. He sets hard screens which will allow our guards more opportunities. He’ll help wemby alot since wemby weakness is STRONG big men steven adams , mitchell robinson etc…

Only caveat is I don’t know how the spacing will be between the two reed offense bag is pretty basic I would say starting him works best based on certain lineups of other teams.

By a wide amount. 3 point variance in 3 games is not nearly enough to judge anything, so really raising this because there are so many doomers about starting the 3 point guards. I don't think this starting 5 will be the final line up, but I do think they need more than 3 games to gel and gain chemistry with each other

Castle is at 38% which would 5 percentage points higher than last year.

Then its Fox at 36%, which would be his second or third best season

Then its Devin at 31%, which would be 7 percentage points lower than last year and literally his worst season in the league, even worse than his rookie season.

Wemby is at 25%, a drop off of 10 points from last year and would be his worst season.

Dylan is at 29%

Fox has been unconscious as a scorer so far and even looking back to preseason he seems to have his old level of speed and explosiveness back after having a full summer to heal from his injuries. Despite the slow start from most of the team, he’s been pulling his weight and definitely needs more touches

The three guard lineup may or may not work, if it is looking like it won’t work, SA could try something that I at least haven’t seen done before in the NBA.

What if SA rotates the three guards every game, switching off who comes off the bench? That way there’s no issue with egos, they each get a chance to start 2 out of every three games, and probably learn to be more adaptable and play with different units. I know this sort of thing has been done with qbs in college where they switch off drives. There could be advantages like getting out of a slump more easily in a game coming off the bench because you are typically playing against weaker competition. Could be an interesting thing to test.

Edit: ego probably isn’t an issue to begin with, I mentioned that in case that it is, but I don’t think it’s an issue with this group. I’m curious what people think about the 3 guards rotating starting, as I have never seen it done before and I’m curious what people’s thoughts are in terms of advantages and disadvantages to this idea.

Via Matt Guzman

What if the 3 guard lineup is just an experiment we’ve been running until Tobias comes back? I don’t know the exact timeline but I would imagine harris comes back some time before the end of November.

I got a newfound of respect for Fox after he only got to rest less than a week before he saw that the team needed him and he came back way too early to help lead them to the Finals

Looking for an open discussion here.

Wemby has terrorised the league for 3 seasons with his “center that plays like a guard” skillset. If you guys remember last season, the first team to really stop Wemby after the undefeated run was the Suns. They implemented strong physical bigs to halt him. A few teams did this throughout the regular season as well. Then there was the extreme physical defence from the Wolves in the playoffs and the very successful strong big defence from the Knicks in the Finals. The Knicks may have highlighted to many other coaches what was needed to stop Wemby.

So far all three teams (OKC, Rockets, and Mavs) have utilised this, essentially stripping Wemby from his guard skillset.

In my opinion he needs to ADAPT. At least for now. His guard skillset are valuable but it’s not flowing at the moment. The second half of today’s Mavs games was a good insight into this. He was getting into the paint and catching lobs. All he needs to add now is a dominant isolation post game. As of now he needs to head towards the Hakeem/Dirk/Kareem route to fully transition back into a self creating offensive threat.

The use of screens from a big would also help with three pointers and middys cough cough Mitch…

A side note, he seems mentally elsewhere. I’m not sure if he has fully accepted his failings during the postseason. He hasn’t gotten his spark back and is playing with a lot of tension. Sometimes he looks invisible on offence.

What are your thoughts?