First off, I do not think the Spurs have Sochan in mind as the long term solution as point guard. Maybe it was their longshot goal that is obviously not happening, but now it’s all to get Sochan’s playmaking ability up to where he can be a starter on a good/great team. His offense is looking slightly better with a 40% 3 point percentage for the last 10 games (less than 2 attempts per game but still), but he’ll need to continue to improve his offense to an average NBA player level or playmaking to an elite level to make it worth having him play major minutes in the future when he returns to the 3-4 spot.
Right now the Spurs have 2 players who would be for sure starters on a good/great team, Wemby and Vassell. I think Keldon would be a solid 6-8 man on a great team who need a spark plug off the bench and Zach has shown his defense isn’t where it needs to be to match the starter skill level in the league, so he’d be a solid back up center option.
Figuring out if we have a core of 2 or 3 players is huge when drafting and looking at players to sign, so I’d much rather the Spurs figure out where Sochan will fit in now at the beginning of Wemby’s career rather than a few years down the road.
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I think people are missing the point of this entire season. And saying he’ll never be a PG after 10 games is ridiculous
Lmao oughta just turn this into a drinking game at his point.
Rules: You drink if
- Sochan turning into draymond/diaw
- Its just an experiment bro
- KJ is a sixth man
Sochan was already at an average/above average playmaking wing. It’s why the Spurs thought this entire thing would be a good idea. Sochan as it stands is already a starting caliber wing/4 on a “good/great team”."
A lot of you are inexplicably showing that you don’t actually watch Spurs games and really only highlight/stat watch.
There’s not a single good/great team that he would start at the wing or 4.
Name a contender Sochan would start for.
And that’s is what is affecting the conversation on this sub
Everyone watches wemby highlights and says wow
But if you watch the games wemby is lost and that isn’t good for development of the most important player…its wemby BTW
Then they look at stats and say he is getting shots
No those are chuck ups often frustrated chuck uos
Its not shots like chet holmgren gets with giddie setting him up
and what about Sochan struggling and losing confidence? how long are they going to keep testing this PG Sochan thing?
I’m not against Pop’s Sochan experiment, but I have to wonder if it is slowing the development of the rest of the team.
Sochan is failing fast a lot, which will probably force him to grow, but is it at the price of rest of the team? A strong PG would probably increase the opportunities for the team as a unit to develop. Same thing with individual players that aren’t Sochan.
Then again, I don’t know shit, so don’t listen to me.
100% the risk to force an experiment is felt most by the players who deserve that opportunity. Pop won’t hear much because he’s untouchable. Shame
I think you are missing the point why people are objecting to it. We fully understand that this is skill development and not meant to turn him into a starting point guard. The reason is…that’s impossible. Starting level point guards on championship teams have played point guard all their lives. We get it. It’s skill development.
The problem is he has shown no sign of having those skills. Not ever. He’s starting from zero. It’s crazy to think that he can learn these skills at a level enough to be useful to a good team. His development is hurting the development of everyone else. He has no court vision at all. This leads to constantly making the wrong pass to wrong player.
You say Collins and KJ don’t look starters on contender. Well nothing from Sochan does either. His offense is looking slightly better is damning with faint praise. He should be getting these development reps off the bench where his mistakes will not hurt Wemby. And that’s why we are so upset. Every game 4-5 times per game Sochan ignores a wide open Wemby to make the wrong pass. That’s not something that should need time to get better at.
There is nothing to figure out. Sochan’s future role is as clear as than KJ’s and Collins.
100%
it’s hilarious, even the title of this post is delusional. i’ve noticed a common attribute most of these people share is that they think the problem is as simple as most people not understanding the situation. and that once they leave their description of it, everyone will come around to their side. i doubt the majority of these people could even guess as to why people object to it, even though it’s been stated many times.
Yes I think this will be great long term especially if we draft Proctor or Collier coz then point Sochan will return at PF with Wemby at center, giving us a lineup of play makers with Vassell.
Sochan shot like 20% from 3 in college I think so 40%, even on low volume of 2 per game, is huge
u/ulqupt, why do you think people are missing the point? you’d think that after 100 posts stating the same things over and over, people would understand the situation (which means agree with whatever the poster says). so what is the reason for this discrepancy?
I know the future of this franchise revolves around Wemby and to a slightly lesser extent Devin, but we did draft 3 first rounders last year and it would be detrimental to this team to not invest resources to develop our 9th pick in his second year, especially since he shows so much potential. It seems that Pops sees the potential and he’s trying to develop the aspect of his game that needs the most work, which is court vision and playmaking. They already fixed his free throw shooting, now they need to work on the rest. If he doesn’t develop like they hope, they’ll be able to know what role he’ll fill in the future, with this team or as a trade asset.