i’m willing to go 0-82 with the sochan experiment. I have no expectations for this season. people’s memories are way too short. For example:

- OKC lost KD in 2016 to the warriors, only really went into true rebuild mode in 2019. It took till this year for them to truly get back into the mainstream conversation, although they’ve been ‘young and exciting’ since the 2019 SGA trade. That’s 7 years since losing the best player they ever drafted in free agency, 4 years since really blowing it up and acquiring their core piece in SGA.

- the Kings have been toiling in mediocrity since 2006. Their best home grown player (Fox) was drafted in 2017. They only put it together in 2022 with the Haliburton-Sabonis trade - 5 year wait.

If anything, the Spurs are trying to ACCELERATE the rebuild - instead of starting the rebuild from drafting wemby 2023 and team building from there, they are focusing on improving and protecting PREVIOUS year’s picks - Sochan and Vassell. On that basis - assuming Vassell is anywhere as good as SGA, the earliest we can really expect a jump is next year’s season.

Who would you put him over? Booker?

the title and the graphic both state top 50…

i mean…the stat line for SGA speaks for itself. Over the last 4 games

35 points, 7 reb, 4 ast, 1 stl 1 blk 1 TO on 59FG%

33 points, 7 reb, 6 ast, 2 stl 2 blk 2 TO on 56FG%

43 points, 7 reb, 6 ast, 2 stl 1 blk 3 TO on 68FG%

30 points, 8 reb, 6 ast, 1 stl 0 blk 2 TO on 55FG%

If that isn’t a top 10 player, I don’t know what is.

they been calling sochan the one armed bandit because of his shooting form; keldon be the two-armed bandit

ahhahahahahahahaha

clippers were very, very physical. good lessons for the young team but man it sucks in the moment