July 1, 2025 • 11 mins
How the Luke Kornet signing adjusts the Spurs’ depth chart.
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Speaker 1 (00:03):
We learned yesterday about this time that Luke Cornett was
coming to the Spurs. Michael Bartlett's not very happy with
that addition. And I can honestly tell you I have
watched Luke Cornett play zero minutes pro basketball.
Speaker 2 (00:17):
Oh that's great, So I listen.
Speaker 1 (00:19):
Here's what I said the Spurs needed after the draft
and after they got Dylan Harper, and we knew they
were going to take Dylan Harper, we didn't know that
Carter was Carter Bryant was going to fall that far down.
Speaker 2 (00:32):
But here's what they needed.
Speaker 1 (00:34):
They needed somebody that can shoot threes, and they needed
a week side rebounder. And again, I can't tell you
whether Cornett's gonna fill the shoes of a week side
rebounder or not. There were other players out there that
ended up getting less money. One would be Clint Capella.
That would have been really nice. But that position, that
(00:55):
particular player I've got penciled in for about thirteen minutes
a game. And so whether that player starts or backs up,
Wimby and I would make a case either way. But
we've seen plenty of examples over the years where a
player is put in the game so that we can
get to a rotation and they start the game. They
(01:16):
make sure that if Wimby's off or whoever the main
scorer on the strong side of the offense is that
you get garbage baskets, that you get.
Speaker 2 (01:24):
Rebounds, that you get to the free throw line.
Speaker 1 (01:27):
And then so let's just give this example Cornette and
Wimby upfront with vasel Castle and Fox in the back.
Speaker 2 (01:35):
Court as a potential starting lineup.
Speaker 1 (01:37):
Okay, and the first sub is somewhere between the seven
minute timeout and the first dead ball, around eight minutes,
and it's Harrison Barnes comes in to play the four.
And now you have more offense, but you have less
defense and less let you have less post defense, and
you have less weak side rebounding potential against other people
(01:58):
that are bigger, but you have more scoring and more
firepower and you can move. And then you bring in
a Keldon Johnson, and then you bring in a Harper,
and then maybe Cornett comes back in to give Wimby
five minutes, and then you play small at times with
so in play in the four of the five, and
there's a million different combinations that you can have. So
if you're gonna give me somebody that's a better name
(02:20):
than Luke Cornett or a better overall player than Luke Cornett,
then typically that player's role is going to be defined
as how many minutes am I getting when I come here.
My guess is is Luke Cornett's not going to get
a lot of minutes. He will probably get a lot
of games played. My guess he'll play in every game
unless he's load managing. But I think that he will
(02:41):
play less than fifteen minutes a game, and more often
closer to ten than fifteen. And I don't think there's
anything wrong with that, because you want to use your bench,
you want to use the depth that you now have
on this team, and when you start thinking about playing
ten or eleven guys at crunch time, you know the
starters are to play somewhere in the neighborhood of thirty minutes,
(03:02):
and then everybody else is going to play a little
bit less than that, unless you're a genobili like six
Man who's going to get some key moments in other
stretches of the game.
Speaker 2 (03:11):
So I don't I don't.
Speaker 1 (03:12):
I don't hate the situation because I don't know that
if you got somebody different, that they would be satisfied
with the role that I believe Cornett's gonna have.
Speaker 2 (03:21):
Well, I mean, if we're just talking this year.
Speaker 3 (03:24):
So this year he played in seventy three games for
the Boston Celtics, started sixteen of them, averaged eighteen points,
six minutes a game, and averaged six points five rebounds.
I'm not excited about the pickup. For the money that
they shelled out for him, it's.
Speaker 1 (03:43):
Well, it's not it's chump changed as far as NBA
money is concerned. It's ten million a year for and
then the fourth year is a team option.
Speaker 3 (03:49):
But it's ten million a year for a backup because
about twenty minutes the.
Speaker 2 (03:55):
Price of poker.
Speaker 3 (03:55):
Well, I can argue that though, because about twenty minutes
later now and I I can understand if he did
a hometown discount because he wanted to go back. Clint
Capella was close to eighteen points a game, maybe a
little less, uh, more athletic, and is going to be paid.
I think it's twenty one or twenty two million dollars
(04:18):
uh in three years, so about seven million to go
back to Houston. I would have preferred they go after
that because he's more athletic. You're not losing some of
the weak side rebounding and blocking potential.
Speaker 2 (04:31):
He's more fansical, he's more physical.
Speaker 3 (04:34):
I just Louke Cornett just doesn't do it for me.
And now, with the news that we got earlier today,
brace yourselfs birth fans, I hope you're, you know, holding
yourself very tightly. We no longer have Mamu mamu Soandra.
Speaker 1 (04:50):
You always thought he was too short anyway, I didn't.
I thought he was. He wasn't the traditional four. He's
more of a three slash four.
Speaker 2 (04:58):
I don't need We got the first have plenty of
guys there. I don't need that.
Speaker 1 (05:01):
I don't need I need a guy that is going
to protect Wimby and whoever is the focal point of
the offense when Wimby's either not in the game or
we're not running places for him, I need somebody that's
going to clean up the mess on the other side.
And every good team at Hartenstein was that for the Thunder,
for the Thunder Miles Turner, was that to a certain
extent for Indiana off Yeah, he does, but but they
(05:25):
weren't running a lot of plays for either one of them.
Speaker 2 (05:27):
I get that.
Speaker 1 (05:28):
You know the plays that they were running is I'm
gonna throw it to you in the high post. You
take one dribbled and if they don't collapse on you, you
have a green light to shoot.
Speaker 2 (05:35):
But if they do, get it to a shooter. And
so that's what.
Speaker 1 (05:39):
If you throw it to Cornette between mid post and
high post and he kicks it to Wimby or gets
it to Winby on a pass or takes one dribble
and dunks it, I'm fine with that. And he's gonna
play twelve minutes a game. And yeah, I'm sure that
there's people that are going You're paying guy ten million
dollars for twelve minutes a game. Well, this is the
NBA and everybody gets paid a lot of money these days.
Speaker 3 (05:58):
By the way, Quint Capella is nine and nine, way
under the number that I said. But again, I would
rather have Clint Capella.
Speaker 1 (06:06):
I'm not disagreeing with you, but I'm guessing that Clint Capella,
when if the discussion has had that, he was I
want to.
Speaker 2 (06:13):
Stay in Houston. I don't care if they're paying me.
Speaker 3 (06:15):
Last week, so he went back to Houston because he
was Atlanta, right, Yeah, he originally started out with Houston.
Speaker 2 (06:21):
By the way, Houston is going to be dangerous.
Speaker 1 (06:23):
Oh yeah, that are going that's well, And we talked
about this earlier last week. I think Oklahoma City is
going to get everybody's best. There's going to be that
championship hangover at times. I am not thrilled with the
way Oklahoma City plays offense. I think it's very defendable
if you can get the ball out of Shay's hands
a little bit maybe more easily said than done. But
(06:46):
I don't think that the Thunder offense is that dynamic.
It's just that they've got really good players running a
very simple offense. But I think Houston can be the
best team in the West next year. And you throw
in with Shoon and Van Vliet and now Kevin Durant. Yes,
that's going to be a team to keep an eye
(07:06):
on as long as they stay healthy.
Speaker 3 (07:08):
Brian, right, you can make this all all all well.
By the way, thank you Shane yesterday for breaking my heart.
I was listening valent tunas well. No, no, no, no, the
Jared Jackson junior Jaron Jackson. Yeah, he was like, okay,
cry and I was like, I was, let's throw this
one out there.
Speaker 1 (07:26):
Uh, Miami is not expected to retain Duncan Robinson. That
Duncan is uh is going to be on the move.
He is a good three point threat. Yes, what would
you give Miami because they could do a sign in
trade and he made what nineteen million this past year?
Speaker 3 (07:42):
This past year and he's on the last year of
his contract and it drops down. I don't know how
they finaggled this, but it drops down ten million, so
he's only making.
Speaker 1 (07:49):
Like nine point eight million. Well, there's some nine million dollars.
You could put two or three players together to get
to nine million dollars. I would love to have Duncan
Robinson coming off the bench shooting three course.
Speaker 3 (08:00):
I mean, it's it's somewhere in the in the stratosphere.
You know. We talked about this several times, uh, with
with our buddy down the hall, Chris Duel. It just
seems like it's destined, you know, because he has the
name Duncan Robinson, so he should at.
Speaker 2 (08:14):
Some point be a spur in his career. Yeah, I don't.
Speaker 3 (08:17):
I just the only thing that worries me Andy, We're
gonna be dealing with potentially pat Riley, and you know,
pat Riley is not gonna go down.
Speaker 2 (08:25):
Well, he's not gonna just say, oh yeah, sure, just
take me.
Speaker 1 (08:27):
What does Miami need. Miami's got there. They're gonna build
around they do the Miami is not a player a
championship contender right now. So what Miami needs to build
around uh Auta Bayo and Tyler Hero those So there
are two core guys they need draft picks and who
(08:48):
has a ton of draft picks. So I don't care
who the players are. Wave the players when they get there,
it doesn't matter. Just match the salaries. If the salary
is only nine million, I can think of a couple
of guys right off the top that would lose minut
It's anyway, if Duncan Robinson was on this team, so
shep the Pacuso's two together. Get yourself, Duncan Robinson, and
then give Miami three first round picks or or or
(09:10):
or maybe one first round in two second rounds. Get
what you can get because you still listen. I'm gonna
say this now. It was this July first Bobby Bedia Day,
which we'll talk about in a little bit. Yes, if
the Spurs are not gonna shoot threes, they're not winning championships.
And that goes for the Spurs anybody else because Oklahoma City,
Oklahoma City, well they but they made threes when they
(09:33):
needed to.
Speaker 2 (09:34):
Yeah, you can, I need to, but but well, I'm.
Speaker 3 (09:38):
Shooting a bunch of threes.
Speaker 1 (09:39):
Andy, I need eighteen made threes a game.
Speaker 3 (09:43):
I know, but the Brooklyn the Boston Celtics prove that
it doesn't always want.
Speaker 2 (09:49):
I don't need sixty threes a game.
Speaker 1 (09:51):
I need forty attempts in eighteen makes at still asking.
Speaker 3 (09:55):
A lot, man, I'll take the Oklahoma City round. Hey,
if you're gonna give us threes, we'll take them and
we'll make them. But we know our place is not
to shoot and jack up a bunch of threes because
that's not our strong suit.
Speaker 1 (10:08):
Well, that needs how but that needs to become. It
doesn't need to be the strong suit. The strong suit
is Wimby, and it's Dear and Fox and it's Castle
and it's the core.
Speaker 2 (10:16):
Of this team.
Speaker 1 (10:17):
But if you're if you're going to go back to
making eight or nine threes a game, you're gonna lose
more than you're not.
Speaker 2 (10:22):
Then you're gonna win. Wow, I would agree. I would
agree there. But Jackson Hayes.
Speaker 3 (10:27):
Yes, because I lost down on Mason Plumley as well.
Mason plum Lee went somewhere.
Speaker 1 (10:30):
Else, so and you still need you still have. I
don't like analytics, singers Cross. I don't like analytics. I
don't like the way the Celtics play. I don't like
the way a lot of the teammates. The teams in
the NBA play with the constant three point barrage. But
if you can't beat them somehow other way, you better
(10:52):
join them. And I just don't know that you can
get to fifty to sixty wins without being a three
point threat. In the neighborhood of six team to nineteen
mad threes a game, and if you're going to shoot
forty percent, that means you're gonna have to shoot forty
of them to get to that number or in the
high thirties.
Speaker 2 (11:08):
All Right, The New York Knicks are searching for coaches.
Speaker 1 (11:11):
They've gone far and wide and they still haven't found somebody.
But the power of the balance of power in the
East is pretty interesting. And in a couple of years
there could be another team in the East that we
need to talk about. We'll discuss all of that. It's
the Andy Everage Show on the ticket
We learned yesterday about this time that Luke Cornett was
coming to the Spurs. Michael Bartlett's not very happy with
that addition. And I can honestly tell you I have
watched Luke Cornett play zero minutes pro basketball.
Speaker 2 (00:17):
Oh that's great, So I listen.
Speaker 1 (00:19):
Here's what I said the Spurs needed after the draft
and after they got Dylan Harper, and we knew they
were going to take Dylan Harper, we didn't know that
Carter was Carter Bryant was going to fall that far down.
Speaker 2 (00:32):
But here's what they needed.
Speaker 1 (00:34):
They needed somebody that can shoot threes, and they needed
a week side rebounder. And again, I can't tell you
whether Cornett's gonna fill the shoes of a week side
rebounder or not. There were other players out there that
ended up getting less money. One would be Clint Capella.
That would have been really nice. But that position, that
(00:55):
particular player I've got penciled in for about thirteen minutes
a game. And so whether that player starts or backs up,
Wimby and I would make a case either way. But
we've seen plenty of examples over the years where a
player is put in the game so that we can
get to a rotation and they start the game. They
(01:16):
make sure that if Wimby's off or whoever the main
scorer on the strong side of the offense is that
you get garbage baskets, that you get.
Speaker 2 (01:24):
Rebounds, that you get to the free throw line.
Speaker 1 (01:27):
And then so let's just give this example Cornette and
Wimby upfront with vasel Castle and Fox in the back.
Speaker 2 (01:35):
Court as a potential starting lineup.
Speaker 1 (01:37):
Okay, and the first sub is somewhere between the seven
minute timeout and the first dead ball, around eight minutes,
and it's Harrison Barnes comes in to play the four.
And now you have more offense, but you have less
defense and less let you have less post defense, and
you have less weak side rebounding potential against other people
(01:58):
that are bigger, but you have more scoring and more
firepower and you can move. And then you bring in
a Keldon Johnson, and then you bring in a Harper,
and then maybe Cornett comes back in to give Wimby
five minutes, and then you play small at times with
so in play in the four of the five, and
there's a million different combinations that you can have. So
if you're gonna give me somebody that's a better name
(02:20):
than Luke Cornett or a better overall player than Luke Cornett,
then typically that player's role is going to be defined
as how many minutes am I getting when I come here.
My guess is is Luke Cornett's not going to get
a lot of minutes. He will probably get a lot
of games played. My guess he'll play in every game
unless he's load managing. But I think that he will
(02:41):
play less than fifteen minutes a game, and more often
closer to ten than fifteen. And I don't think there's
anything wrong with that, because you want to use your bench,
you want to use the depth that you now have
on this team, and when you start thinking about playing
ten or eleven guys at crunch time, you know the
starters are to play somewhere in the neighborhood of thirty minutes,
(03:02):
and then everybody else is going to play a little
bit less than that, unless you're a genobili like six
Man who's going to get some key moments in other
stretches of the game.
Speaker 2 (03:11):
So I don't I don't.
Speaker 1 (03:12):
I don't hate the situation because I don't know that
if you got somebody different, that they would be satisfied
with the role that I believe Cornett's gonna have.
Speaker 2 (03:21):
Well, I mean, if we're just talking this year.
Speaker 3 (03:24):
So this year he played in seventy three games for
the Boston Celtics, started sixteen of them, averaged eighteen points,
six minutes a game, and averaged six points five rebounds.
I'm not excited about the pickup. For the money that
they shelled out for him, it's.
Speaker 1 (03:43):
Well, it's not it's chump changed as far as NBA
money is concerned. It's ten million a year for and
then the fourth year is a team option.
Speaker 3 (03:49):
But it's ten million a year for a backup because
about twenty minutes the.
Speaker 2 (03:55):
Price of poker.
Speaker 3 (03:55):
Well, I can argue that though, because about twenty minutes
later now and I I can understand if he did
a hometown discount because he wanted to go back. Clint
Capella was close to eighteen points a game, maybe a
little less, uh, more athletic, and is going to be paid.
I think it's twenty one or twenty two million dollars
(04:18):
uh in three years, so about seven million to go
back to Houston. I would have preferred they go after
that because he's more athletic. You're not losing some of
the weak side rebounding and blocking potential.
Speaker 2 (04:31):
He's more fansical, he's more physical.
Speaker 3 (04:34):
I just Louke Cornett just doesn't do it for me.
And now, with the news that we got earlier today,
brace yourselfs birth fans, I hope you're, you know, holding
yourself very tightly. We no longer have Mamu mamu Soandra.
Speaker 1 (04:50):
You always thought he was too short anyway, I didn't.
I thought he was. He wasn't the traditional four. He's
more of a three slash four.
Speaker 2 (04:58):
I don't need We got the first have plenty of
guys there. I don't need that.
Speaker 1 (05:01):
I don't need I need a guy that is going
to protect Wimby and whoever is the focal point of
the offense when Wimby's either not in the game or
we're not running places for him, I need somebody that's
going to clean up the mess on the other side.
And every good team at Hartenstein was that for the Thunder,
for the Thunder Miles Turner, was that to a certain
extent for Indiana off Yeah, he does, but but they
(05:25):
weren't running a lot of plays for either one of them.
Speaker 2 (05:27):
I get that.
Speaker 1 (05:28):
You know the plays that they were running is I'm
gonna throw it to you in the high post. You
take one dribbled and if they don't collapse on you, you
have a green light to shoot.
Speaker 2 (05:35):
But if they do, get it to a shooter. And
so that's what.
Speaker 1 (05:39):
If you throw it to Cornette between mid post and
high post and he kicks it to Wimby or gets
it to Winby on a pass or takes one dribble
and dunks it, I'm fine with that. And he's gonna
play twelve minutes a game. And yeah, I'm sure that
there's people that are going You're paying guy ten million
dollars for twelve minutes a game. Well, this is the
NBA and everybody gets paid a lot of money these days.
Speaker 3 (05:58):
By the way, Quint Capella is nine and nine, way
under the number that I said. But again, I would
rather have Clint Capella.
Speaker 1 (06:06):
I'm not disagreeing with you, but I'm guessing that Clint Capella,
when if the discussion has had that, he was I
want to.
Speaker 2 (06:13):
Stay in Houston. I don't care if they're paying me.
Speaker 3 (06:15):
Last week, so he went back to Houston because he
was Atlanta, right, Yeah, he originally started out with Houston.
Speaker 2 (06:21):
By the way, Houston is going to be dangerous.
Speaker 1 (06:23):
Oh yeah, that are going that's well, And we talked
about this earlier last week. I think Oklahoma City is
going to get everybody's best. There's going to be that
championship hangover at times. I am not thrilled with the
way Oklahoma City plays offense. I think it's very defendable
if you can get the ball out of Shay's hands
a little bit maybe more easily said than done. But
(06:46):
I don't think that the Thunder offense is that dynamic.
It's just that they've got really good players running a
very simple offense. But I think Houston can be the
best team in the West next year. And you throw
in with Shoon and Van Vliet and now Kevin Durant. Yes,
that's going to be a team to keep an eye
(07:06):
on as long as they stay healthy.
Speaker 3 (07:08):
Brian, right, you can make this all all all well.
By the way, thank you Shane yesterday for breaking my heart.
I was listening valent tunas well. No, no, no, no, the
Jared Jackson junior Jaron Jackson. Yeah, he was like, okay,
cry and I was like, I was, let's throw this
one out there.
Speaker 1 (07:26):
Uh, Miami is not expected to retain Duncan Robinson. That
Duncan is uh is going to be on the move.
He is a good three point threat. Yes, what would
you give Miami because they could do a sign in
trade and he made what nineteen million this past year?
Speaker 3 (07:42):
This past year and he's on the last year of
his contract and it drops down. I don't know how
they finaggled this, but it drops down ten million, so
he's only making.
Speaker 1 (07:49):
Like nine point eight million. Well, there's some nine million dollars.
You could put two or three players together to get
to nine million dollars. I would love to have Duncan
Robinson coming off the bench shooting three course.
Speaker 3 (08:00):
I mean, it's it's somewhere in the in the stratosphere.
You know. We talked about this several times, uh, with
with our buddy down the hall, Chris Duel. It just
seems like it's destined, you know, because he has the
name Duncan Robinson, so he should at.
Speaker 2 (08:14):
Some point be a spur in his career. Yeah, I don't.
Speaker 3 (08:17):
I just the only thing that worries me Andy, We're
gonna be dealing with potentially pat Riley, and you know,
pat Riley is not gonna go down.
Speaker 2 (08:25):
Well, he's not gonna just say, oh yeah, sure, just
take me.
Speaker 1 (08:27):
What does Miami need. Miami's got there. They're gonna build
around they do the Miami is not a player a
championship contender right now. So what Miami needs to build
around uh Auta Bayo and Tyler Hero those So there
are two core guys they need draft picks and who
(08:48):
has a ton of draft picks. So I don't care
who the players are. Wave the players when they get there,
it doesn't matter. Just match the salaries. If the salary
is only nine million, I can think of a couple
of guys right off the top that would lose minut
It's anyway, if Duncan Robinson was on this team, so
shep the Pacuso's two together. Get yourself, Duncan Robinson, and
then give Miami three first round picks or or or
(09:10):
or maybe one first round in two second rounds. Get
what you can get because you still listen. I'm gonna
say this now. It was this July first Bobby Bedia Day,
which we'll talk about in a little bit. Yes, if
the Spurs are not gonna shoot threes, they're not winning championships.
And that goes for the Spurs anybody else because Oklahoma City,
Oklahoma City, well they but they made threes when they
(09:33):
needed to.
Speaker 2 (09:34):
Yeah, you can, I need to, but but well, I'm.
Speaker 3 (09:38):
Shooting a bunch of threes.
Speaker 1 (09:39):
Andy, I need eighteen made threes a game.
Speaker 3 (09:43):
I know, but the Brooklyn the Boston Celtics prove that
it doesn't always want.
Speaker 2 (09:49):
I don't need sixty threes a game.
Speaker 1 (09:51):
I need forty attempts in eighteen makes at still asking.
Speaker 3 (09:55):
A lot, man, I'll take the Oklahoma City round. Hey,
if you're gonna give us threes, we'll take them and
we'll make them. But we know our place is not
to shoot and jack up a bunch of threes because
that's not our strong suit.
Speaker 1 (10:08):
Well, that needs how but that needs to become. It
doesn't need to be the strong suit. The strong suit
is Wimby, and it's Dear and Fox and it's Castle
and it's the core.
Speaker 2 (10:16):
Of this team.
Speaker 1 (10:17):
But if you're if you're going to go back to
making eight or nine threes a game, you're gonna lose
more than you're not.
Speaker 2 (10:22):
Then you're gonna win. Wow, I would agree. I would
agree there. But Jackson Hayes.
Speaker 3 (10:27):
Yes, because I lost down on Mason Plumley as well.
Mason plum Lee went somewhere.
Speaker 1 (10:30):
Else, so and you still need you still have. I
don't like analytics, singers Cross. I don't like analytics. I
don't like the way the Celtics play. I don't like
the way a lot of the teammates. The teams in
the NBA play with the constant three point barrage. But
if you can't beat them somehow other way, you better
(10:52):
join them. And I just don't know that you can
get to fifty to sixty wins without being a three
point threat. In the neighborhood of six team to nineteen
mad threes a game, and if you're going to shoot
forty percent, that means you're gonna have to shoot forty
of them to get to that number or in the
high thirties.
Speaker 2 (11:08):
All Right, The New York Knicks are searching for coaches.
Speaker 1 (11:11):
They've gone far and wide and they still haven't found somebody.
But the power of the balance of power in the
East is pretty interesting. And in a couple of years
there could be another team in the East that we
need to talk about. We'll discuss all of that. It's
the Andy Everage Show on the ticket
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