Speaker 1: Ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls, basketball fans, San Antonio
Speaker 1: Spurs fans, Welcome to another edition of the San Antonio
Speaker 1: Spurs Weekly Podcast with your boy, a fan of the
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Speaker 1: still know? Greg Popovich?
Speaker 2: Come on, dude, but he is my host, your.
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Speaker 1: Dizzle up for it right there. What's going on?
Speaker 2: Guys, Welcome to another episode of the San Antonio Spurs
Speaker 2: Weekly Podcast. Thank you guys for hanging out with us.
Speaker 2: It is summertime. Not a lot of news, but boy
Speaker 2: have we been waiting for this episode, haven't we? San
Speaker 2: Antonio Spurs fans. The signing of de Aaron Fox. We
Speaker 2: are gonna talk about how he was as sly as
Speaker 2: a Fox and how the San Antonio Spurs have a
Speaker 2: lot of confidence in this young man and this young
Speaker 2: group of San Antonio Spurs players. And I'm gonna tell
Speaker 2: you right now, NBA, tell him, Tupac, tell him tell
Speaker 2: him what all eyes on you is, right, That's what's happening.
Speaker 2: Here in San Antonio. All eyes are on the San
Speaker 2: Antonio Spurs. Can they keep their health up for the season.
Speaker 2: We are getting ready for the preseason. I can't believe
Speaker 2: it's August already. We're only a month and a half
Speaker 2: away from a little bit of preseason action right now,
Speaker 2: Deer's season action and more. Boy, are you ready, San
Speaker 2: Antonio Spurs fans? I know we are. I know. I've
Speaker 2: been watching these boys show up to summer league games
Speaker 2: for their Spurs, their teammates cheering them on, and y'all
Speaker 2: just don't know, NBA fans, and this is just not
Speaker 2: the Homer in me coming out in this episode. This
Speaker 2: is gonna be the y'all just don't know. Addition, either,
Speaker 2: you really don't. We're gonna go over a few of
Speaker 2: the Spurs stats, We're gonna talk about the roster that
Speaker 2: we have, and much much more. But let's talk a
Speaker 2: little bit about that signing of dearon Fox.
Speaker 3: We've got some breaking news here on NBA. Today's shamp
Speaker 3: Sarania back here with us and Shams. What can tell
Speaker 3: us about another extension out in San Antonio?
Speaker 4: I mean a Spurs star deeron Fox has reached agreement
Speaker 4: on a four year, two hundred and twenty nine million
Speaker 4: dollar max contract extension with the Spurs that keeps them
Speaker 4: in San Antonio through the twenty twenty nine thirty NBA season.
Speaker 4: This is a signing that will occur later on Monday,
Speaker 4: and deal and Fox and his rich Paul navigated a
Speaker 4: trade his preferred destination, the only place he wanted to be,
Speaker 4: San Antonio back in February.
Speaker 1: He wanted to be a Spur.
Speaker 4: He got there, he got his wish, and now months
Speaker 4: later he gets the full max contract. And this is
Speaker 4: after the Spurs already drafted Dylan Harper, have the ring
Speaker 4: Rookie of the Year as well, and Stefan Castle. That
Speaker 4: backcourt is loaded, so now he's gonna have no state
Speaker 4: taxes as well with this extension compared to his old
Speaker 4: California residents. But Fox him, Victor Yama him him and
Speaker 4: have developed a very close relationship.
Speaker 5: And uh, you know.
Speaker 4: Overall, I think for the Spurs, this is something that
Speaker 4: they wanted to make sure they got done early this offseason.
Speaker 3: Yeah, Spurs making sure they made that move early. Sean's
Speaker 3: catching a straight right there, bro take.
Speaker 2: A shot at California.
Speaker 3: Sho Thanks so much. Man, Yeah, that is true too,
Speaker 3: And now you have you know this Spurs team last
Speaker 3: season they really underachieved. They lost Wendy to the blood
Speaker 3: clock then also finished under five hundred. So Mark, just
Speaker 3: what is the ceiling for this Birds team? Now? Knowing
Speaker 3: that Darreon Fox is going to be there with this extension.
Speaker 5: Well, first, kudos de Niern. He got what he wanted.
Speaker 5: He's back home, his wife's from around there, he got paid,
Speaker 5: and he's with Wemby. But the question is, like a
Speaker 5: lot of people don't know this. The Spurs haven't been
Speaker 5: in a playoffs since twenty nineteen. Sounds kind of absurd
Speaker 5: to say it is. Wemby has not played in the postseason.
Speaker 5: I expect him to be healthy and take the team
Speaker 5: to the playoffs. I think they will be a playoff team.
Speaker 5: And then the next thing is people are like, well, darn,
Speaker 5: you got these other two guards, great guards, Castle, the
Speaker 5: rookie coming in. I don't think they do anything right now.
Speaker 5: You let those two guys that Harper grow, let Castle
Speaker 5: grow some more, and Fox will be a great mental
Speaker 5: for him. They're a really scary team if everybody's healthy,
Speaker 5: and it's.
Speaker 6: Hard to evaluate anything last season because so much happened
Speaker 6: to the Spurs, from Greg Tavovich having his health issues
Speaker 6: and then eventually stepping down, Mitch Johnson coming in in
Speaker 6: the middle of the year, having to take actually early
Speaker 6: end of the year and having to take over on
Speaker 6: the fly. Wemby had blood clots shut down his season
Speaker 6: right after the All Star break, and even Darren got
Speaker 6: there and they played a couple a little bit together,
Speaker 6: but they didn't really get to see what that combination
Speaker 6: can do. And so I think I'm excited to see
Speaker 6: what the Spurs do. I think this gives Dylan Harper
Speaker 6: some time to grow, This gives to Fuon Castle some
Speaker 6: time to grow into those roles. And as Mark Mark
Speaker 6: said that, yeah, maybe three years from now that might
Speaker 6: be a decision they have to make, but it's not
Speaker 6: a decision.
Speaker 5: It's a coach time to grow too. With his first
Speaker 5: training camp.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and let's talk a little bit about Deer and
Speaker 3: Fox and his fit with Wemby though, Also, Mark, how
Speaker 3: do you think those two fit together on the court.
Speaker 5: Oh, you know what, I think that Fox's time with Sabonis, Yeah,
Speaker 5: probably could help, you know, pick and rolls and you know,
Speaker 5: Sabonis was certainly kind of god that could shoot threes
Speaker 5: making mid range. Wemby's just such a unique, different monster, right,
Speaker 5: And so that's why I think training camp is important.
Speaker 5: Maybe that what the Spurs should do is take a
Speaker 5: note out of like the Celtics when I covered them,
Speaker 5: where they go somewhere. I don't know if they're doing
Speaker 5: training camp somewhere else, but when you have so many
Speaker 5: new pieces like that, bring them away. Yeah, so they
Speaker 5: could get to know each other and build some camaraderie too.
Speaker 2: Some really good information right there from NBA today, And
Speaker 2: let's talk a little bit about Deer and Fox. First,
Speaker 2: we'll talk about the chemistry of the Spurs and actually
Speaker 2: what they've been doing in the off season. It's funny
Speaker 2: that Mark was talking a little bit about that, the
Speaker 2: camaraderie with the Spurs. If you don't know now, you
Speaker 2: know they've been doing that. They've been getting together in
Speaker 2: the off season, whether it's going to dinner, going to games,
Speaker 2: and they're just developing that camaraderie. And if you didn't
Speaker 2: see that last year and the limited amount of time
Speaker 2: they were all on the court together, that's scary. Now,
Speaker 2: just imagine that health I believe they're all healthy and
Speaker 2: ready to roll, and we'll talk about that coming up
Speaker 2: here on the show. But let's talk about Deer and Fox.
Speaker 2: A lot of you guys out there were complaining, saying
Speaker 2: we paid way too much money. This guy is not
Speaker 2: a superstar. This guy is not a star. Are you
Speaker 2: absolutely kidding me? The gentleman averages twenty three and a
Speaker 2: half points a game in his career. Do you realize
Speaker 2: the boost that gives each and every player around the
Speaker 2: Spurs This year, they now can be a little more relaxed.
Speaker 2: Dearon Fox can hit that three. He averages six and
Speaker 2: a half assists a game. Guess who averaged pretty close
Speaker 2: to that last year, Chris Paul. Chris Paul, one of
Speaker 2: the greatest point guards of all time, averaged right around
Speaker 2: that seven assists, almost eight assist clip. I mean, dearens
Speaker 2: one assists away, and you know he'll get that every
Speaker 2: night with Victor Wimenyama. Just one assist to Victor makes
Speaker 2: his assist stats go up. What I love about this
Speaker 2: signing it's four years. Whose contract needs to be resigned
Speaker 2: in four years? Dylan Harper. After the rookie contract, the
Speaker 2: Spurs will have a major decision to make. What has
Speaker 2: Darin done for the four years here in San Antonio
Speaker 2: and what has Dylan done? Dylan may be a bus
Speaker 2: Spurs fans, you don't know. Dylan may be good enough
Speaker 2: to trade and we bring in an integral piece, or
Speaker 2: trade d Aarin in four three years, three four years
Speaker 2: and get another integral piece to have an amazing run
Speaker 2: into the NBA finals. I see the Spurs closer to
Speaker 2: the NBA Finals than a majority of you, in a
Speaker 2: majority of these NBA analysts out there, the Spurs will
Speaker 2: make the playoffs next year. They'll be fighting for around
Speaker 2: that five seed. I believe. I said that five to
Speaker 2: six seed, okay, depending on what the Clippers and the
Speaker 2: Lakers do. But Luca is just if you have seen
Speaker 2: Luca in the offseason, this dude's ready to ball. I'm
Speaker 2: gonna call it early. I think Luca wins MVP. He's
Speaker 2: gonna be right up there. It's gonna be Sga, probably Yannis,
Speaker 2: probably Wemby, and then you also have got Luca in
Speaker 2: the mix. It's gonna be an interesting MVP run this year.
Speaker 2: But the key in every sport, we say it all
Speaker 2: the time, as health. The San Antonio Spurs are healthy,
Speaker 2: but I don't think our fans mental is healthy. And
Speaker 2: what I mean by that is, don't get me wrong. Okay,
Speaker 2: we talk about this contract extension. Dearen was gonna get
Speaker 2: max money. He was gonna get max money. The rumor
Speaker 2: was he got hurt in the offseason again, had a
Speaker 2: stomach issue. The Spurs may lessen his load. We even
Speaker 2: said that on the show, but we predicted anywhere between
Speaker 2: that two hundred to two hundred and fifteen million. Mark
Speaker 2: got a little bit more than what we thought, but
Speaker 2: that doesn't mean he's not worth it. Dearon Fox is
Speaker 2: a stud. Deeren Fox is a stud. In the seventeen
Speaker 2: games he played with the Spurs, still shot on almost
Speaker 2: forty five percent from the field. He was twenty points
Speaker 2: a game, pretty close to still getting a couple of rebounds,
Speaker 2: and definitely near that seven assists clip, just in the
Speaker 2: limited amount of time he was here in San Antonio
Speaker 2: and the limited amount of time he was playing with Wemby.
Speaker 2: That's sickening. You're looking at two, possibly three potential All
Speaker 2: Stars for the Spurs, and you also may have a
Speaker 2: rotational third All star between Castle, maybe even Devin Vasselle.
Speaker 2: We are forgetting about Devin Vesselle people, We are forgetting
Speaker 2: about Sohan, We are forgetting about Kelden. Yes, even you
Speaker 2: people out there said, oh, I woultrade these guys. Do
Speaker 2: you realize the integral pieces these guys are. I don't
Speaker 2: think you realize it. These guys have been a part
Speaker 2: of the organization for the last three to five years.
Speaker 2: They know how it works, they know where they're headed.
Speaker 2: The Spurs must trust those three to be keeping them around.
Speaker 2: I just want to put that out there. You know
Speaker 2: everybody says, oh, the Spurs are building around Wemby. I
Speaker 2: want to give a big shout out to Devin Vichelle.
Speaker 2: Also give a shout out to Jeremy Sohan and Keldon Johnson,
Speaker 2: who have been through all the bad years here in
Speaker 2: San Antonio. When you think they might be developing around them,
Speaker 2: think about it. Sometimes you don't always have to be
Speaker 2: the star for a team to develop. Devin Vessell will
Speaker 2: go through his stats in a minute. Pretty shocking last year.
Speaker 2: I am predicting he's gonna have a big year this year.
Speaker 2: And I'm not saying big year like twenty five points
Speaker 2: a game, but we know he can produce that from
Speaker 2: time to time a twenty five thirty point night, and
Speaker 2: yes there's nights where he's on twelve or ten. But
Speaker 2: the Spurs have always been like that as a team.
Speaker 2: They've always balanced their players' points per night. And this
Speaker 2: is smart because if you lock down on one player
Speaker 2: and you only have one player that scores, and you
Speaker 2: can shut that player down, it makes it for a
Speaker 2: lot of losses on a team. Now you have Fox,
Speaker 2: Now you have Castle, Now you have Wemby, now you
Speaker 2: have vasel Vasell is like a snake in the weeds
Speaker 2: right now? Do we forget that last year the month
Speaker 2: of April, he put up the most amount of three
Speaker 2: point makes in Spurs history for a month. Dude can shoot.
Speaker 2: And I believe dearon Fox now is really going to
Speaker 2: space and spread that floor. And I'm not talking about
Speaker 2: Dylan Harper right now. I know some of y'all are
Speaker 2: so high on Dylan Harper. I like Dylan Harper. I
Speaker 2: think Dylan Harper is gonna be a great pro. I
Speaker 2: think he's gonna be a great fit in San Antonio.
Speaker 2: But everybody is expecting him to be better than Castle
Speaker 2: unseen Yet he's still developing that outside shot. If you
Speaker 2: watched him for the limited amount of games in the
Speaker 2: Summer League, he's got a lot of decision making things
Speaker 2: that he needs to work on. But he's a rookie.
Speaker 2: He only played one year at Rutgers. Want to keep
Speaker 2: that in mind. The Spurs are deadly right now. NBA,
Speaker 2: NBA family, if you're out there listening, this is just
Speaker 2: not a Homer saying this. They're dead. I believe they're underestimated.
Speaker 2: I truly believe that. And now with the addition of Fox,
Speaker 2: I think the money was perfect because even if he
Speaker 2: wants to be traded in three years, which I don't
Speaker 2: see him doing. Do you realize d Aeron's only twenty
Speaker 2: seven years old. That four year contract gets him to
Speaker 2: thirty one, and he ain't even close to the end
Speaker 2: of his career. I see de Aeron Fox being that leader.
Speaker 5: Now.
Speaker 2: He worked with Chris Paul last year, a little bit
Speaker 2: learn from Chris Paul. Now he's gonna hand that down
Speaker 2: to these superstars and Dylan Harper, Castle, Carter Bryant in others.
Speaker 2: This is scary. The Spurs have always developed their team
Speaker 2: around knowledge and of course the man behind the curtain.
Speaker 2: Greg Popovich at hefe of course, still in the mix,
Speaker 2: still giving his x's and o's behind the scene, and
Speaker 2: a lot of you really made fun of Mitch Johnson.
Speaker 2: This shows me right here, you're a fairweather Spurs fan.
Speaker 2: I called you out. I believe having a young coach
Speaker 2: like Mitch Johnson, who was underneath Popovich for a few years,
Speaker 2: is going to be a surprising good coach in the NBA.
Speaker 2: Then of course there's gonna be questions, Oh, of course
Speaker 2: he had Wimby for years, and how can he be
Speaker 2: calmed down? Every great coach always had great players. Phil
Speaker 2: Jackson had Jordan Pippin. How about Steve Kerr, Curry, Clay Green,
Speaker 2: the Knicks, Patrick Ewing, a Laja one, Rudy tom Janovich.
Speaker 2: The list goes on and on and on. Pat Riley
Speaker 2: Laker fans, Magic Johnson, cream Abdul Jabbar. Come on, guys,
Speaker 2: Great coaches help develop great players. That's why they're considered
Speaker 2: great coaches. Still unseen to see if Mitch will do that,
Speaker 2: but I love his future. The team loves Mitch Johnson.
Speaker 2: Victor Wembinyama wanted to see Mitch Johnson back, and Victor
Speaker 2: has a lot of say in this team. He wants
Speaker 2: to be a Spur for life. He bought a nice
Speaker 2: home here in San Antonio. That that's almost like Tony
Speaker 2: Stark esque. If you've ever seen any articles on Wemby's
Speaker 2: new home. My god, he's got the best of everything.
Speaker 2: He is an alien. Okay, he is an alien. You
Speaker 2: go in there and I wouldn't be surprised. You wouldn't
Speaker 2: hear Jarvis talking to him. Okay, that's how much he
Speaker 2: is so ingrained with today's technology making him better. All right,
Speaker 2: the true iron Man of the NBA.
Speaker 5: We'll see.
Speaker 2: Right, Let's take a look at some of the San
Speaker 2: Antonio Spurs and what this does for the Spurs coming
Speaker 2: up now. As a team, the Spurs last year averaged
Speaker 2: one hundred and thirteen points, almost one hundred and fourteen
Speaker 2: in the middle of the mix. There, they scored the
Speaker 2: sixteenth most points in the league. Not too bad, you're
Speaker 2: in the middle of the pack. Their defense, though they
Speaker 2: gave up here you ready, one hundred and sixteen points,
Speaker 2: almost one hundred and seventeen. They were only losing games
Speaker 2: by an average of three points. What does it have
Speaker 2: to do with anything, Katie. San Antonio's bolstered their defense,
Speaker 2: Kelly Olnik coming in, Cornett coming in Fox now re signed.
Speaker 2: This team is ready. And as much as we loved
Speaker 2: Mamu Mamo had trouble on defense at times coming off
Speaker 2: the bench, this team is ready to really make a
Speaker 2: move in that defensive category. I believe they can hold
Speaker 2: teams to about a one to eleven to one to
Speaker 2: ten this year. I believe San Antonio can still average
Speaker 2: about one fourteen one sixteen. We were doing this without
Speaker 2: Wembanyama in the lineup for forty games. We weren't doing
Speaker 2: We were doing this without Fox for twenty games. Do
Speaker 2: the averages. That's scary, that's scary for teams. San Antonio
Speaker 2: of course, is always in the top ten and assists.
Speaker 2: You're gonna see that continue to stay the same. Rebounds
Speaker 2: per game is going to go up. I see us
Speaker 2: going into that, you know, fifteen fourteen category, as far
Speaker 2: as fifteenth best team fourteen. Bringing on somebody like a
Speaker 2: Kelly Olnik, somebody that's gonna chase down rebounds, a Cornette,
Speaker 2: that's what he's gonna do. Clean up the glass when
Speaker 2: he's in there. These guys are gonna help Victor Wembinyama
Speaker 2: as far as not getting beat up as much. It's
Speaker 2: gonna save on his body. Now, speaking of which the
Speaker 2: San Antonio Spurs' health in the offseason, I don't know
Speaker 2: if you have seen in other reports and in other videos.
Speaker 2: I'm ticked talk and social media, these boys are looking
Speaker 2: pretty badass. Jeremy Sohan's been in the gym every single day.
Speaker 2: Castle's been in that gym every single day. Their muscle
Speaker 2: definition looks a lot different. Devin Vissel has been boxing
Speaker 2: three to five days a week for stamina, for strength.
Speaker 2: Keldon Johnson still being a beast, and we're seeing Carter
Speaker 2: Bryant fly all over the place and getting recognition from
Speaker 2: people like Klay Thompson saying, this kid is gonna be
Speaker 2: a very good pro. He's gonna be one of those
Speaker 2: players on the Spurs that you're like, wow. He kind
Speaker 2: of reminds me of that Klay Thompson that just fits
Speaker 2: a role, a Scottie Pippen that fits a role. And
Speaker 2: I'm not talking about scoring, but do you know that
Speaker 2: on a basketball team, not everybody has to score, but
Speaker 2: they do good on certain things, Like I had a
Speaker 2: young girl on our team this year on our nine
Speaker 2: tens every year. She's my defensive bulldog. She's like my
Speaker 2: Bruce Bowen. When I can put her in there and
Speaker 2: she shuts down the opponent, and if she picks up
Speaker 2: a bucket or two, that is a bonus. That's Carter Bryant.
Speaker 2: He's gonna be that guy. One night you're like, oh
Speaker 2: my god, he had fourteen points and fifteen rebounds. Then
Speaker 2: when he develops his shot a little bit better, he's nineteen.
Speaker 2: Dylan Harper nineteen, Castle going to turn twenty twenty one
Speaker 2: this year. Wemby twenty two, Fox twenty seven. Do you
Speaker 2: see the trend here in San Antonio? This is why
Speaker 2: the Spurs will be scary. They are so young still,
Speaker 2: even adding old Nick and adding the likes of Cornet
Speaker 2: and adding a twenty seven year old Fox, very scary.
Speaker 2: Taking a look at some of the stats from last
Speaker 2: year with various players, Victor Wimbeney, on my own course,
Speaker 2: only forty six games he played last year, but played
Speaker 2: thirty three minutes twenty five points a game.
Speaker 5: Almost.
Speaker 2: I'm gonna let that set in twenty five points a
Speaker 2: game in his second year as an NBA pro. Combine
Speaker 2: that with Darren Fox's career totals of almost twenty five.
Speaker 2: There's fifty points, folks. Fifty points are possible between these
Speaker 2: two players. Every night. Spurs averaged one hundred and fourteen
Speaker 2: points a game. Do the math. I'm a math guy.
Speaker 2: I'm a numbers guy. That's sickening. Then you bring somebody
Speaker 2: like vissell In, who averages sixteen points a game. Can
Speaker 2: you imagine if he bolsters his offense up another four
Speaker 2: points a game? There's twenty We should be keeping track
Speaker 2: of this. Say that's seventy points a game between three guys.
Speaker 2: Castle comes in gives you a good ten to fifteen.
Speaker 2: That's eighty. Keldon Johnson gives you that maybe ten to fifteen,
Speaker 2: that's ninety. Harrison Barnes, who we forget about, speaking of
Speaker 2: iron men, eighty two games last year with Champenny and
Speaker 2: Chris Paul. Harrison Barnes is still here, folks. He can
Speaker 2: give you that twelve points a game. That's one o
Speaker 2: two right there, sham Penny speaking of the devil right
Speaker 2: there right. Spurs are very confident in him, as they
Speaker 2: extended his contract. Ten points a game there, that's one
Speaker 2: twelve for those guys there, we haven't even talked about
Speaker 2: the likes of Carter Bryant. We haven't talked about Kelly Olnik,
Speaker 2: we haven't talked about Cornett. I'm just throwing that out there.
Speaker 2: That's a pretty even balance of scoring. You could see
Speaker 2: the Spurs have one, two, three, four, five, six, seventh.
Speaker 2: They had it last year. They had almost eight players
Speaker 2: in double figuresh average. Haven't even inclined to Dylan Harper
Speaker 2: in a scoring league. If you can get your roster
Speaker 2: from one to ten averaging double digits with two guys
Speaker 2: averaging twenty five a game.
Speaker 5: That's scary.
Speaker 2: That's scary. We're looking at the new NBA. And of
Speaker 2: course I understand put the asterisks of health, the asterisks
Speaker 2: of time off, not playing back to backs, I get
Speaker 2: all that, But that's scary Spurs fans. Now, what about
Speaker 2: the defense. You're thinking about the defense right, well, you're
Speaker 2: looking at the rebounding. We were very weak on the boards,
Speaker 2: especially when Wemby went down. Wemby was eleven boards a game.
Speaker 2: Last preseason. We said Wemby would average twenty four, which
Speaker 2: he averaged twenty four point three. We said he would
Speaker 2: average twelve boards. He averaged eleven, And we said he
Speaker 2: would average three and a half blocks versus blocks three
Speaker 2: point eight. Man, I'm like a nostra damis, Well, what
Speaker 2: about this year, Katie, what do you think? I think
Speaker 2: Wemby goes up to twenty seven a game. I think
Speaker 2: Wemby average is about twenty seven a game. I think
Speaker 2: he sits around that eleven rebound mark. His rebounds are
Speaker 2: going to stay about the same, maybe drop a little
Speaker 2: because you got ol Nick in there, and you have
Speaker 2: of course Cornette in there now taking a little bit
Speaker 2: of the rebounds. His steels will stay the same about
Speaker 2: one one and a half. His blocks, I see him
Speaker 2: at least getting three and a half easy a game.
Speaker 2: He won the blocks title with only forty six games.
Speaker 2: I see his stats going up. What about Deer and Fox?
Speaker 2: I see deer In really getting settled. I see deer
Speaker 2: In at about twenty two points a game this year.
Speaker 2: I see his assist total going up probably about seven
Speaker 2: and a half. His rebounds I see going up to
Speaker 2: maybe about five. We're gonna need Deer and Fox as
Speaker 2: those steals. I'd like to see him push that, maybe
Speaker 2: become a closer league leader in steals there. Devin Vaselle,
Speaker 2: I believe his game will go up about seventeen points
Speaker 2: a game. He's got a lot to prove in his
Speaker 2: last couple of years of his contract here in San Antonio?
Speaker 2: What happens with Devon? Are there Spurs planning for the
Speaker 2: future to not give Devon a Max deal? If Dylan
Speaker 2: Harper comes along and Steph has a good year, the
Speaker 2: Spurs are in perfect position right now with the signing
Speaker 2: of dearon Fox. That's more evident than ever Spurs fans,
Speaker 2: because they signed deeron Fox and we have these young
Speaker 2: guards and we forget about Devin Vessel. What if he
Speaker 2: comes out averaging twenty plus a game. What if he
Speaker 2: gives you that in the next two years? Now, what
Speaker 2: do you do, Spurs fans? Do you give him the
Speaker 2: max deal? You gave him one hundred and forty nine
Speaker 2: million a couple years ago. Do you give him a
Speaker 2: two hundred million dollar deal? Continue to keep that core around?
Speaker 2: The Spurs are ready. We haven't even talked about. We
Speaker 2: haven't even talked about in this episode some of the
Speaker 2: signings the Spurs grab this year.
Speaker 3: You know.
Speaker 2: What about David Jones? About David Jones Garcia, here's a
Speaker 2: guy I see like a Jonathan Simmons coming off the bench,
Speaker 2: maybe to relieve somebody like Devin on that wing. And
Speaker 2: now DJG can get in the lineup when he plays
Speaker 2: maybe forty games this year, say he averages double figures.
Speaker 2: The Spurs are deep, The Spurs are deadly. The Spurs
Speaker 2: are scary, and we need to understand that in the
Speaker 2: NBA and be ready for what is the next level
Speaker 2: for the Spurs. As we said, we think they will
Speaker 2: push toward that five six seed. I believe they can
Speaker 2: get above the forty four win mark. The West is tough,
Speaker 2: The West is tough. I believe the Spurs can step
Speaker 2: up a little bit further depending on what the Lakers
Speaker 2: and the Clippers do. The Clippers are adding a lot
Speaker 2: of older talent, and I just want to say history
Speaker 2: repeats itself. The Lakers did this many years ago. Remember
Speaker 2: when they had the likes of Gary Peyton, Kobe Shaq,
Speaker 2: Karl Malone. How did that work out? Exactly?
Speaker 1: It was a bust.
Speaker 2: I see the same thing happening. And then the Clippers.
Speaker 2: I think losing Norman was a big mistake. Kawhi Leonard
Speaker 2: always hurt. Reason why the Spurs got rid of him.
Speaker 2: Chris Paul. You know he'll be their eighty two games,
Speaker 2: but can he get along with James Harden Forget what
Speaker 2: happened in Houston with those two. The Clippers every year
Speaker 2: seem like they try to grab crap, throw it against
Speaker 2: the wall and see if it sticks. It works for
Speaker 2: about forty games and then all of a sudden they implode.
Speaker 2: Last year was different. It made a run toward the
Speaker 2: end of the year. What about the bench. We're gonna
Speaker 2: get more into the discussion of other teams when it
Speaker 2: comes to our NBA preview, which we'll be doing here
Speaker 2: in the next couple weeks. We might be taking teams
Speaker 2: comparing them to the Spurs. What the Spurs can do
Speaker 2: against each and every one of those teams this year?
Speaker 2: What about Golden State? Golden State? Will Golden State make
Speaker 2: the playoffs? Will they be in the play in this year?
Speaker 2: What about Denver? Denver's restrapped, reloaded, trying to make one
Speaker 2: more final push. OKC is the standard in the West,
Speaker 2: but the West is wide open as far as I'm concern,
Speaker 2: from numbers two to ten this year, and that's prime
Speaker 2: pickings for the San Antonio Spurs. Absolutely, the Spurs are ready,
Speaker 2: are you ready. I know I'm ready, man, I am
Speaker 2: ready this triple H and the WWE.
Speaker 1: You used to say, are you ready? I am.
Speaker 2: I'm ready for another fun filled year with the Spurs.
Speaker 2: I've been itching. I've been getting that itch again. So
Speaker 2: over the next couple of weeks, we're gonna break down
Speaker 2: some of the players on the roster what they can
Speaker 2: do for this team. We'll have players spotlights. We'll also
Speaker 2: have our NBA preview with each team in the NBA
Speaker 2: over the next couple of weeks. So we're gonna get
Speaker 2: ready to go hot and heavy with NBA and of
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