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Speaker 1 (00:03):
We're at the Convocation Center this evening.
Speaker 2 (00:05):
Back in the studio tomorrow tomorrow on the program. Bill
Schoening will join us. We'll get some thoughts after he
gets a chance to see the Aaron Fox play this evening,
and also Lisa compos will join us tomorrow. Is UTSA
announced earlier in the week their intentions to move forward
with revenue share if and win this passes in April
and the legislation there and kind of a future of
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UTSA athletics from a financial standpoint, how they'll be able
to compete in the American Conference. Tonight, the Spurs take
on the Atlanta Hawks. The Spurs five games below five hundred,
trying to get a new look into their lineup. We
don't have the starting lineups out yet. They should be
announced here shortly and we'll see if the Aaron Fox
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is in the starting lineup or not. I don't know
that he would be in the first game, but I
don't know why he wouldn't be either either way. From
my standpoint, eventually, I think he's a starter. And here's
the comment that I heard I was listening. It's one
of these roundtable things.
Speaker 1 (01:06):
I don't remember.
Speaker 2 (01:06):
It was like a video of NBA people discussing what
the future of the Spurs are and almost every one
of them said they don't think the Spurs are a
top six team right now, that they're still a development team.
And when you say development, the first question I have
is develop what you have are? Are you still missing
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a piece? And I really don't know where the missing
piece is, because as long as Chris Paul's here, you've
got one of the greatest point guards in the history
of the league, and you have an air apparent to
him and Deer and Fox it's really really good.
Speaker 1 (01:41):
And you have a great.
Speaker 2 (01:42):
Ball handler that can run the point in Steph Castle,
but it's just as good at playing on the wing
as he is is playing on the point.
Speaker 1 (01:49):
From where I've seen him play this year.
Speaker 2 (01:51):
You've got maybe one of the most underrated guards in
the league, and Devin Vessel who can do a lot
you of course, you have Wimby so Hand has some
deficiencies here and there, but he's a really good role player.
I wouldn't put him quite in the role player that
Boris dl was, but Boris Diel played about a similar
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amount of minutes at times in his career and Boris
is not going to be anybody's Hall of fame. Maybe
he might be in the in the French Hall of Fame,
but he's not in the NBA Hall of Fame. But
I don't I don't want to take him off. Any
of those teams that were winning, were winning teams.
Speaker 1 (02:28):
Back in his days.
Speaker 2 (02:30):
And then you throw in then you throw in Collins
coming off the bench.
Speaker 3 (02:34):
No, Collins isn't here anymore.
Speaker 2 (02:36):
I'm not Collin's Keldon Keldon coming off the bench. And
now you've got the top seven guys, top eight guys,
and when you get close to the playoffs, you're really
going at you know, nine or ten anyway.
Speaker 1 (02:48):
So I like the core of nucleus of this team.
Speaker 2 (02:52):
I don't know where you add another piece to it
and then have enough minutes for those players to play,
because remember there's two hundred and fourty minutes in a
game when you give every position forty minutes, and at
some point, you know, in the regular season anyway you're
probably gonna play You're probably gonna play Fox at least
thirty thirty two minutes, and Whimby's going to be in
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that number around there, and so are most of your starters,
So that takes up about one hundred and fifty minutes
of the game, maybe even one hundred and sixty, So
you only have about eighty minutes left with the rest
of the team. And you put six or seven guys,
probably six guys, five guys in that rotation. They're playing
thirteen to twenty minutes apiece, and so you don't want
to put a player on the roster that you think
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can help you and then just stash him there, you know,
the thirteenth the twelfth and thirteenth guy I go back
to I think it was.
Speaker 1 (03:45):
Three maybe when Steve Kerr came off the bench, hadn't
played in a month and then hit a.
Speaker 2 (03:48):
Bunch of threes. That was that's the exception of the rule.
But Steve was way down on the bench. So if
you're going to have a regular season rotation of say
ten or eleven guys, you certainly got to get them
in games and get them enough minutes. I just don't
know what else his team needs. But one of the
things I found interesting was they thought this panel of
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the guys, I think it was one of those ESPN.
Speaker 1 (04:13):
Panels with.
Speaker 2 (04:15):
Wenthorse in shiny A Gooom mackay and a couple others
and they were all looking at dearon. Fox is the
San Antonio's point guard of the future. He's there, Tony Parker,
that was there forever, and he'll slowly but surely take
up Chris Paul's minutes there and win n F Chris
decides to retire or moves on, then it'll be his show.
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So we may see more of an Aaron Fox point
guard situation. And this is according to all these NBA
insiders that were on ESPN yesterday talking about that. So
I think the nucleus is there, and I think this
team has a chance. They're gonna have to get a
winning streak going. They can't win one and lose three.
They're gonna have to win three or four and then
lose one, and they're gonna have to win some of
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these close games.
Speaker 1 (05:01):
They have to stop turning the ball over.
Speaker 2 (05:03):
But if they can get their turnovers under thirteen to
fourteen a game and shoot it halfway decent, I think
this team can get to that ninth or tenh seed
and maybe after that, who knows, because everybody is so
bunched up together.
Speaker 1 (05:15):
But I think.
Speaker 2 (05:15):
People are less excited about the Spurs and this trade
than they were getting a Victor Woman Yama or getting
Castle last year in the draft.
Speaker 1 (05:26):
And I think this is a big time move that
the Spurs pulled off.
Speaker 2 (05:29):
This is a really, really good basketball player that probably
needs a little bit of a direction from Vets and
some leadership and some idea what the boundaries are. And
I think he could take off and be just a
really really good player. I don't expect him to be
Tony Parker, but he may be just as good or
better before his career is up here in San Antonio.
Speaker 4 (05:48):
Well, I think for what it is, because some of
the stuff that I've been watching and hearing as well
is they absolutely love this for the Spurs. You know,
they're not in the whole notion of there's still a
developmental team and they're still a ways away. Uh, You're
you're adding an all star level point guard with Dearon Fox,
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who is a very at times clutch player when it
comes down into the fourth quarter. I'm sure you know,
throughout the rest of the season, we'll start getting on
the Spurs broadcast our our good buddy Dan Wise with
his d analytics, and he'll sit there and break it
down that he's Dearon Fox is one of the more
clutch players when it comes down to it. As far
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as like the starters, I don't have an issue if
maybe for the first game they just want to kind
of get him acclimated.
Speaker 3 (06:41):
Okay, if you want to come off the bench, that's fine.
Speaker 4 (06:44):
We still don't know, at least for tonight's game, if
Chris Paul is going to be a go. The last
injury report we saw was not questionable with a with
a finger injury. So if that's the case, I mean,
then Dearon Fox gets the gets the.
Speaker 2 (07:00):
And they'll have to simplify the playbook a little bit.
But probably every team runs five to fifteen basic plays.
They may call them something different, they may have a
different terminology from it, but basically motion is motion, and
horns up and horns down is the same play for
every team, and flop he's the same play for every team,
and every team in.
Speaker 1 (07:19):
The world runs the place, and I don't know how much.
Speaker 2 (07:23):
At some point, at some point in the offense, you
may call a play to get into a certain motion,
but after that you're just playing basketball. You're just finding
an open guy in a comfortable position to shoot.
Speaker 1 (07:32):
A shot.
Speaker 2 (07:33):
But here's the one thing that that panel said yesterday
and all of them agreed with it. By the time
he's twenty five, which is what four years away for Wimby. Yes,
he's twenty one now three and a half or so,
by the time he's twenty five, they think he's the
number one best basketball player in the world. Now, he's
probably top twenty right now, but by twenty twenty five,
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they think he's the best basketball.
Speaker 1 (07:56):
Player in the world. And to have a point.
Speaker 2 (07:58):
Guard that's going to distribute him the basketball as the
Aaron Fox will and who can make baskets and get
to the rim when they play off of are they
double Wimby or triple Wimby. That's a pretty good combination.
And I think the general managership of the award has
to go of the year guys, to go the Spurs
for being able to get what they got and basically
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give up players that are not going to factor in
one way or the other whether you win a championship
or not. They did not have to give up Kelden Johnson,
they did not have to give up Vesel. They just
had to give up players who have roles on this
team and will have roles on other teams, and we're
not gonna get the minutes that they needed to develop
as NBA legitimate full time players.
Speaker 1 (08:40):
This was a brilliant move.
Speaker 2 (08:41):
We all speculated that it was going to take Keldon
Johnson and Collins to get it done, and you're able
to keep kJ here and that is a huge, huge thing.
Speaker 1 (08:49):
For the Spurs. So I.
Speaker 2 (08:51):
Just think the Spurs can be better. Will they We're
gonna have to wait for the next thirty seven games
to find out. But I think this team has the
chance to get to five hundred and maybe a game
or two above, and then I would have to defer
to Brian Wright, or to Mitch Johnson or to Pop.
What do you need next? What's the next piece of
the puzzle? Because I like the I like the potential
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starting lineup, even though it may be a little bit
small with the cell playing the three on defense, remember
the two and the three on offense. For the most part,
on most plays is the same position. There's different you know, obviously,
they there's if you have a Lebron or you have
a really really dynamic big three, then there's some situations
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there that you can you can do some different things,
But basically, in basic offense, the two and the three
are interchangeable ones on the left side of the four
ones on the right. But defensively is where it's impactful
because you need a bigger guy to guard the six
eight sixty seven, six nine three men in the NBA.
But I don't I'd like to find out what the
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next piece of the puzzle is, what's missing from this team,
and we'll we'll talk to Bill about that tomorrow and
see what he thinks it might be, because I don't
think they have much left to get to where that
a progression of playing together for two or three months,
this team could really really challenge some teams, not only
for the ninth and tenth seed, but seven and eight,
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maybe even six.
Speaker 4 (10:16):
I would say, if nothing else for the rest of
this year, what they do need is another big. They
definitely need another big because we saw the other day
Charles Bassy go down and he was able to play
the rest of the game. But this is a guy
that has had two ACL surgeries in the last two years.
He's out with an NCL spring tonight. So technically your
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only other big on the team would be Sandro mam
Mia chaylash Pheeley, which I love. I love Sandro. He's
a good energy player. He can stretch the floor.
Speaker 3 (10:49):
He's one of those.
Speaker 4 (10:51):
Guys that when he goes into the game, it's Patty
Mills style. You're gonna get energy, You're gonna get something
out of him. The only thing would be is if
Victor gets in foul trouble, Sandro has to come in
and play extended minutes.
Speaker 3 (11:04):
Sandro sometimes tends to get in foul trouble too.
Speaker 4 (11:07):
Now, obviously I I made it well known that I
would have loved to have had Yonners Valenciunis. There's another
player that I think, if nothing else, would fit the
role of having another big on this team that cleared
waivers yesterday.
Speaker 3 (11:24):
And it's I'm not being a homer, but he is
a former Longhorn, Mo Bamba.
Speaker 4 (11:31):
I would I wouldn't mind Mo Bamba if nothing else.
I believe they have one more open roster spot that
they can use, and he would at least be that
kind of lanky, wiry style of He's a smaller Victor
wibin Yama in the in the you know scale frame
of it.
Speaker 3 (11:51):
When it comes to feed.
Speaker 2 (11:53):
People, I remember singing play, he would he would be
a good but a good addition. But I just I
just think the core of this team is ready to
start winning. At some point, the development has to stop
and the winning has to continue. And you see, you
see in their twenty one wins how good they are,
and you see in their twenty six losses. Usually it's
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because they turn the ball over, give up offensive rebounds,
and don't do fundamental basketball. And what I watched the
other night against Memphis is there were way too the
turnovers were unforced and rushed, and that's also the mark
of a team that's trying to play together.
Speaker 1 (12:27):
You want It's Andrew Monico.
Speaker 2 (12:30):
And I used to use this analogy because we're both
old enough to know what record players were back in
the day. But back in the day, the record players
came and you could get a little disc that would
spent at forty five RPMs a minute, and one that
would come at was it thirty two? I think forty
five and thirty two. Well, the game is played at
thirty two, and young players play at forty five. And
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so if you're old enough to know what a record
player is, you understand the analogy. The game is played
at a slower tempo, and the Spurs sometimes play it
too fast of a tempo. You have to figure out
a way to slow those things down. All right, Coming up,
I've got some more thoughts on Kevin Durant. I really
want to like this guy. I think he's one of
the greatest players of all time, but his demeanor is
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just wearing people out.
Speaker 1 (13:14):
That's next, It's the Andy Everage show. On the ticket