GREAT Off-Season So Far BUT the Spurs Need 3 Point Shooting!

GREAT Off-Season So Far BUT the Spurs Need 3 Point Shooting!

Spurs fans, it’s been a pretty good off season. Dylan Harper, Carter Bryant, Luke Cornett. More work needs to be done because our shooting still kind of sucks. What is up, San Antonio Spurs fans? Welcome to CSR Sports. Hope your weekend has been fantastic. Summer League started last night and well, it was a rough game to watch, so hopefully tonight’s game against the Warriors will be better. Cheap plug alert, we’ll be live at 6:30 p.m. Eastern. Anyway, came across an article from Air Almo talking about some of the free agents we missed on. And it got me thinking about our three-point shooting. So, I’m going to get into that article and then I have a ton of questions at the end. So, let’s get into it. Following a few days of free agency mayhem, the signings have died down and the major free agents have found their new homes. Several teams made franchise altering moves. The Rockets are the first one that comes to mind that will signally impact their outlook for the 202526 season. Our Spurs did not one addition Luke Cornet on a four-year deal worth 41 million. They’re talking about the Kale Alexander Walker. How he’d been a great fit. I don’t think we could afforded him. So, I I’m kind of moving by that one. A player we could have afforded Gershon Yabuselli on the list of missed opportunities for Gershan Yagoselli is obviously the one I think that stands out the most for for all of us. The 68 stretch four would have been the perfect complent to the Spurs current foundation. Yabasili was an impressive shooter in the 24-25 season, finishing at 38% of his three-point attempts, only costing the New York Knicks 12 million over two seasons. That’s right, two years, 6 million a year. The Spurs could have easily brought him in and paired him back with his France national teammate. Yeah, I I’ll talk about that in just a few moments. There were a plethora of bench sharpshooters though that the Spurs could have brought in on a cheap deal. Among the groups are Tim Hardaway Jr., Luke Canard, and the greatest name in the NBA, Duncan Robinson. How has he not played for the Spurs yet? Seriously, all these guys can make it rain from deep and could have provided a significant beyond the arc spark for the Spurs off the bench. In the era of three-point importance, and I’m sorry it is, each of these players was heavily sought after on the free agent market. Despite that, the Spurs have at least attempted to snag one of them away for cheap. Who wouldn’t want to play next to a load of playmakers and future MVP Victor Webmanyama? Okay, I like that lessons. All right, so we could not have afforded one of those players they just mentioned based on their previous contracts and Luke Cornet. Our team needed a big bad and we checked off that box. The problem right now is the way the roster is constructed with our current salaries, the Spurs are very limited to who they could sign. That being said, seeing how cheap the dancing bear went for, that does hurt. If we could have found a way, maybe Cornet’s contracts a little smaller and tighter, and if we could have picked up L Cornet and Gershan Yabaselli this off season, that would have been an absolute A+ grand slam. No doubt about it. But it didn’t happen, which leaves a lot of questions. What’s our Spurs shooting moving to next season? I’m going to break up our stats from last season. And they’re not pretty. The top left I’m going with. Maybe that’s the starting lineup for next season, guys. I have no idea. WB and Fox are an absolute lock. Castle probably a lock after that. Soan, Barnes, Vel, Penny. I don’t know what kind of combination Mitch Johnson’s going to go with. I’m sure he doesn’t know yet as of this point either. There are some bad percentages there. There are some absolutely frighteningly bad percentages there. Dylan Harper’s stats, by the way, the 33% is from his last season at college. Canard was a stretch five when he came into the NBA. He took three three-pointers last year. There’s the zero. I think it was three. He’s not shooting threes anymore. I don’t think the Spurs are going to ask him to try. Let’s get to the part where I said there were a lot of questions that we have that need to be answered. First off, Stefon Castle and or Jeremy Sohan both approve on their three-point shooting to get it around league average. for Sohan, that would be a jump of around what, 4%. I think the league average is 35. He looks good. Uh what the shot that he’s been taking now, the hitch is gone. Can he be at least a respectable three-point shooter where defenders aren’t constantly sagging off of him and double teaming WBY or triple teaming WMY or clogging the paint for our cutters and slashers like Castle and Fox? Speaking of Castle, that would be a big jump. He was just under 29% this season. Can he get to 35? asking a 6% jump is big but not impossible. Castle is putting in some serious work right now. If you haven’t been following him, he’s working with the guard whisperer who I’ve talked about on the channel that helped train SGA and numerous other guards. He’s also been playing in the summer league, not the games, but he’s been working out with the team and apparently going full full on 100%. I have faith that he will improve a three-point shot. I think Jeremy will too. The question is just how much. If Germany goes from 31 to 32% and Castle jumps from 29 to 30, they’re going to be left open whenever they’re on the floor and that’s just not going to work. How about Darren Fox with the Spurs in seven 17 games I think he played. He was sub 30% but I went with his year stat because that felt more appropriate. That’s the entire sample size for the year. He was only 31% last year, but he has shot 37% before with the Kings. Can he be a 37% guy again? Not great. But that’s above league average. And there’s a lot of cans and ifs here. By the way, Dell 37% respectable. However, I don’t think that’s playing up to his contract. You’re getting paid 27 million next season. We need you to be a 40% plus guy. We’ve seen you do it. You’ve been very consistent. You’ve had injuries, but I know you have it in you. If we want the best out of this team, he needs to be that 40% guy. Speaking of 40%, right below Demisel, Kell Johnson. I was looking at Kell stats and I forgot in his third season Kellan shot just right around 40%. I think it was like 398 just a hair under 40%. And that was not on a limited sample size in his third season. That was over five three-pointers a game. Can he recover his three-point shot? Because it was gone last season which I think definitely hurt the team. Can he get back to that or close to it? Can he get 37 or 38%? We know he has it in him. If he can do that, that’s going to help significantly off the bench. And then we have a rookie, Carter Bryant. Could he develop way ahead of schedule? And guys, let’s stop with the he sucks. He’s a bust already. It was one game last night. Jeez, we saw the same thing with WHMY two years ago. Give him a chance. Yes, that game was ugly last night. It was tough to watch on both sides. The offenses looked terrible. The refs were whistling everything. I did not enjoy watching that basketball last night. I enjoyed hanging out with you guys, but watching the game, it was a wreck. But Carter Bryant showed some potential. Showed some really, really nice form with his shots. Just, you know, he was off probably, you know, some first game jitters. Was a foul machine. He’s going to have to work on that and I’m sure he will. Then last but not least, my brother from another mother, Riley Min. Can he kill it in summer league when he’s eventually playing? Can he do well in the preseason? He was over 40% in GLeague last year. If he’s doing that again, could he make the roster and give us some much needed three-point shooting off the bench? I don’t know. But I know this if we see a repeat of these numbers next season is not going to give us the best Spurs team that it can be. We’re not going to lock maximum potential Wemby if you will. We’re not going to have the floor spacing we need for Wemby to be his best for Fox to be as best for Castle to be his best. Harper penetrating not going to be his best. It’s going to limit the team. It’s a three-point shooting league whether you like it or not guys. I know some of you say TSR I’m tired of hearing three-point shooting. It is what it is. And you look at our Spurs last five years that they’re ranked in the NBA 20. This is by percentage, 24, 18, 26, 28, and 20 last season. While I was looking at those stats, I couldn’t help notice below that there were a lot of ranked number ones in the NBA by the Spurs. From 2010 to 2018, our Spurs were ranked number one in three-point percentage five times. Five times. Five times. Five times. Five times. Five times. We had snipers on the team. And right now, we don’t really have any snipers. We got security guards. We need snipers. this team’s going to reach its maximum potential cuz there’s a lot of good players here that I think do I still say we said there’s a lot of potential that’s been untapped but it hasn’t come together yet because the team the last few years or really since the channel’s inception has been so damn inconsistent night in night out where you see a guy go five for seven for three one night and 0 for eight the next night and just lather rinse repeat that pattern for the rest of the season. It’s infuriating. It’s frustrating but I know they can do it. It’s just when will it come together? Next season? I hope so. I think it will. I think it will. A healthy Webby, an offseason with Webby and Fox. Johnson with an offseason to prepare to be a head coach with a good supporting coaching staff around him. I have a lot of faith in the team. And that’s all I got. So, there you go. That’s today’s video. Drop a comment down below. Did any of these stats surprise you that I dropped? Did you know the Spurs were first in three-point field goal percentage, five out of from 10 to 18? And a lot of years before that, they were number one. So, we weren’t exactly the highest value three-point shooting team, but they were efficient. That’s what we need back. We need the efficiency. I think defensively, we got some good parts to this team. We have building blocks. We have a legit big off the bench, but the shooting’s got to come together. Did they put the work in this off seasonason to make it make it happen? We’ll find out soon. Like, comment, subscribe, all that good stuff. Hope you’re having a good weekend. See you at 6:30 tonight for the Warriors. Thank you. And as always, go Spurs go.

The San Antonio Spurs have had a great off-season however the team still needs some solid 3 point shooters!

https://airalamo.com/spurs-decision-skip-past-these-impactful-free-agents-bite

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