Can you feel it? The sleepy Spurs media machine is waking up, NBA content is upon us!
Also, shoutout to Tynan (one of us!) for bringing in-depth talk to the forefront.
More to the point: Tre’s relative strengths are ball security, running the offense, and penetrating to the paint. Sochan can actually finish over size in the paint, and got a magnificent cutting game. The 3pt is a wash imo, defenses ignore both of em. This may be close enough to just let happen, especially considering the on-paper benefits of tall-ball on defense. Let’s see if we got that size and lateral movement ingredients.
Toronto and the Clips eventually bailed on tall-ball lineups, and I wonder if it’s due to there being much less time for secondary and tertiary actions if it now takes 10+ seconds to get the ball to the 3pt line and start running the offense. What makes the Spurs think they’re going to nail it?
Having said that, the potential is sooo alluring. First steps in the point-Sochan road to utopia needs to be either a much better jumper or a tight handle to not be pressured to pick up the rock just past the half-court. He might have to start doing the DWhite thing where he’d need to turn his back to the basket anytime there was pressure due to inability to drive by his guy, but he’d keep the dribble alive.
Sochan’s size can be an automatic mismatch against 80% of teams at the point, and open the over-the-top passes that Tre rarely dares.
I am not a fan of point sochan. Atleast not yet. He has not shown the ability to run an offense the way tre has. And tre has improved his 3pt shooting, floater game, passing, and finishing game. Yes sochan has defense, length, and motor but tre actually runs the offense and sets up people perfectly. When sochan eventually improves and is able to run the offense (hopefully sooner than later), i might eat my words but for now I’ll personally stick with tre as pg.
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I’m a massive Point Sochan fan, but imo it would be much more ideal for Jeremy to come off the bench. Let him run the show with the second unit. Let the coaching staff assess if he can really be the PG of the future
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Can you feel it? The sleepy Spurs media machine is waking up, NBA content is upon us!
Also, shoutout to Tynan (one of us!) for bringing in-depth talk to the forefront.
More to the point: Tre’s relative strengths are ball security, running the offense, and penetrating to the paint. Sochan can actually finish over size in the paint, and got a magnificent cutting game. The 3pt is a wash imo, defenses ignore both of em. This may be close enough to just let happen, especially considering the on-paper benefits of tall-ball on defense. Let’s see if we got that size and lateral movement ingredients.
Toronto and the Clips eventually bailed on tall-ball lineups, and I wonder if it’s due to there being much less time for secondary and tertiary actions if it now takes 10+ seconds to get the ball to the 3pt line and start running the offense. What makes the Spurs think they’re going to nail it?
Having said that, the potential is sooo alluring. First steps in the point-Sochan road to utopia needs to be either a much better jumper or a tight handle to not be pressured to pick up the rock just past the half-court. He might have to start doing the DWhite thing where he’d need to turn his back to the basket anytime there was pressure due to inability to drive by his guy, but he’d keep the dribble alive.
Sochan’s size can be an automatic mismatch against 80% of teams at the point, and open the over-the-top passes that Tre rarely dares.
Point-Sochan content dropping today!
[One more from Tom Petrini](https://www.kens5.com/article/sports/nba/spurs/spurs-point-guard-debate-popovich-san-antonio-wemby-wembanyama-nba-basketball/273-eb2a033b-3371-48ef-b3de-784eea5a5600).
Let s embrace it.
Sochan is the tallest PG in the league.
I am not a fan of point sochan. Atleast not yet. He has not shown the ability to run an offense the way tre has. And tre has improved his 3pt shooting, floater game, passing, and finishing game. Yes sochan has defense, length, and motor but tre actually runs the offense and sets up people perfectly. When sochan eventually improves and is able to run the offense (hopefully sooner than later), i might eat my words but for now I’ll personally stick with tre as pg.
I’m a massive Point Sochan fan, but imo it would be much more ideal for Jeremy to come off the bench. Let him run the show with the second unit. Let the coaching staff assess if he can really be the PG of the future