Like, really? We got a generational talent in Wemby AFTER ONE SINGLE YEAR OF TANKING and you complain and act like we’re in some tragic situation because the team is not competent yet? Do you have a clue of how team building works in the NBA?
We got MASSIVELY LUCKY to land Wemby last year, and there was no need to rush or overpay average player just to be more competitive this year. We got nothing to gain in that. Would you have preferred if the FO wasted all our cap space to get Van Vleet and Brooks?
It wasn’t even a given that Wemby would be this good right away. We should be fucking thankful and excited every time he hits like 20 points, 8 rebounds and a couple blocks. When he enters his prime, he will be unstoppable.
Stop whining like spoiled children, if you want to see a fun, competitive team play there are plenty in the league. Nobody forces you to watch the Spurs if you can’t bare the idea that the team still has to grow. Get a life
Some nephews aren’t built for a rebuild. The Spurs organization is one of the most sound and respected sports franchises in the world, and they’re in a small market. I have nothing but faith in this team.
Tbf, you had to know it would be this way. We’ve sort of been the trust fund nepo babies of the NBA. 20+ years of having great records, making the playoffs, and being contenders spoiled a lot of people. We’ve had more success in the last 10 years than a lot of teams have had in their entire history.
Yeah, we’ve sucked the last several years. We’ll probably suck for a few more. But at least we have hope for the future and we seem to be setting ourselves up for promising runs in the next 5 years or so.
Drop the expectations and just enjoy that one day you’ll be able to say “yeah, I was there when Wemby was a rookie”.
The part that drives me nuts is the vitriol towards just Sochan who is playing better than he did last year IN A HARDER JOB.
If Spurs fans don’t recognize that Sochan is being played there to help tank the record while getting some valuable personal development, they should start.
Don’t expect competent basketball. The whole point of putting him there is to give him the chance to make mistakes to learn from while riding that process to a bad record and a high draft pick.
FA should have been the giveaway that the FO isn’t trying to win games this year.
Hold tight until next year, y’all.
THANK YOU OP! Only the real ones will know
Some posters just need to have something to bitch about.
I think the main concern with more rational fans is that this team appears to worse overall. Wemby notwithstanding, our returning guys don’t seem to have made the year-to-year leap we were hoping to see:
- Jeremy is hard to compare because he’s in a different role and his three-point shooting seems absurdly locked-in, but I don’t think his defense has developed much and I do not trust him at all when he drives with the ball.
- Devin is still having trouble staying on the court, and his shooting when he does seems to be roughly the same.
- Keldon is just as streaky as ever, and maybe even more prone to tunnel vision than before. No improvement to his defense, either.
- Tre isn’t as effective coming off the bench, and his defense is just as problematic. No signs of a refined jumper, either.
- Malakai can’t dial in his range ball, a huge caveat for a plug-in offense player like him.
- Blake has made marginal improvements to his passing, and is still very much a garbage-time player.
Really, the only guy to have taken any significant stride, to my eye, is Zach. That’s an issue where you’re a team with a lot of youth and a whole summer working together. Wembanyama can’t be the only prospect actually developing, and that assumes he doesn’t also slump hard himself.
Devin went from a 39% 3pt shooter last year to a 43% 3pt shooter this year.
I don’t blame the frustration, and I understand the impatience, but it’s the calls for Pop’s resignation that get me riled up.
That man is NBA coaching royalty. To say that he has nothing to offer this team of 20 year olds shows so much disrespect to a legendary coach and a lack of perspective on basketball.
The truth is that Pop’s skill and long term approach to team building is exactly what these rookies need, even if it is painful today. A lesser coach would force them into mediocrity quickly in the name of short term wins.
Say it louder!
Don’t blame us, we’re spoiled with 5 championships, and Tim Duncan.
If anything this sub spent all summer overhyping this team, talking about playoffs n such. Some of us knew how bad we were, and yes we are bad.
Yelling at people and telling them to go watch another team, just for complaining is peak hypocrisy.
I understand someone can get frustrated watching a losing team, there’s mothing wrong. I just think watching other teams and having fun is a better solution than being a doomer online. It’s not wrong to watch other teams, there are plenty of awesome players to watch in the league, nobody is forced to only watch the team they support
Everyone seems to have forgotten that we came in last place last season. That’s why we have Vic in the first place. One player even as good as Vic appears to be will not be enough for the Spurs to have a winning season.