The Spurs Roster is DEEP but WHAT Starting Line-Up!?

The Spurs Roster is DEEP but WHAT Starting Line-Up!?

I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again. Spurs fans, it is a good time to be a Spurs fan. What is up, San Antonio Spurs fans? Welcome to TSR Sports. Doing an original video today about what the Spurs starting rotation should be. Our bench is deep, but I’m seeing a lot of different um feedback on what the starting lineup would be. I thought, let’s talk about that amongst ourselves. I’m going to show a bunch of different lineups, give my two cents in the end on which starting lineup I think the Spurs will go with. While we’re going over these starting lineups, I do want to let you know you’re not going to see Carter Bryant, Kelly Olick, or Jordan Mclofflin in the starting lineup or in the main 10-man rotation. I think Carter is going to start his time off in Austin. His defenses look fantastic at times, but to get the minutes and work on his offense, start in Austin, get the playing time. Kelly will be as an as needed basis, and Jordan Mclofflin will be likely a garbage time player. No shade to be thrown, but that’s just going to be his role, but hey, that role is needed, too. All right, let’s get into the projected starting lineups for our Spurs, and this is the one I see the most. This is ESPN’s depth chart. This was shown during the summer league games, but this is our starting lineup likely for next season. Darn Fox, Dylan Harper, Deon Mel, Harrison Barnes, Victor Webyama. When I first look at the starting lineup, I’m like, defensively that could be a little rough. team’s unders sized, which is something we’ve been saying for feels like forever. But there could be a, you know, a little little caveat to this starting lineup is Dylan Harper, isn’t that right? Dylan Harper’s defense may be better than advertised in college. Sure, we only saw what 16 or 17 minutes in his summer league debut, but that shot block was highlight reel worthy. He was he was disruptive at times. Maybe he’s going to be a better defender with San Antonio than we’re expecting coming out of college would certainly shore up this the defense in this starting lineup. As far as floor spacing, the cell inconsistent but can shoot the three. We got Barnes shooting three. Obviously, WHMY, I say this a lot, if Fox get back to his normal form of around 36 37% and Harper can be better than advertised, then you know, this could be an offensive lineup that cooks for the Spurs. When I look at the bench, all right, one of the big issues with the bench is that they gave up points at regular as soon as WHMY came out of the, you know, came out of the rotation. This is a good defensive lineup. Sorry Luke, I cut most of you off, but you know, you got Luke, a one of the best rim protectors, I believe, per 36 minutes in the NBA. Zan’s a strong defender. Champeny’s no slouch. Castle has his ups and downs, but I think he’s going to be a better defender this year. The weak link here is my man Kell Johnson, uh, essentially traffic on defense. Hey, it is what it is, but I think I think this could work. But my concern here with this rotation is the current rookie of the year and your fourth overall pick is de I guess taken as demotion to bench. I know Mano Genobboli. I know I know. And then you got one of your core players in Jeremy Sewing coming off the bench too. Both players expected to be starters. Now Castle’s still going to get his minutes off the bench. I fully expect him to get 30 minutes if this situation plays out. But I don’t know if I’m down with this rotation. Luckily, we have a whole bunch more to go over. Rotation number two, we’ve now swapped out Harper and Vasel. They are now on the bench and you got Castle and Sohan getting promoted to the starting lineup. Again, we’ve got two solid defenders in the starting lineup and Sohan and WBY. Castle possibly will be a very very good defender this year. We should have some decent rebounding with this lineup as we have some size with both Barnes and So being at least 6’8. I can’t tell if so 68 or 69. I see different heights for him, but we got some size out there. But the floor spacing is going to be an issue. My biggest concern with this lineup is Castle and Sohan’s three-point shooting or lack thereof. We did every game together on this channel last year called all 82 regular season games plus preseason. I’m so proud of that. And so many times you saw defenders sag off Castle or someone and just leave them open like and just kind of hover around Wemby. I don’t want to see that again. Looking on the bench, it feels kind of somewhat balanced between scoring and defense. But the issue here now looking at this is now you’ve got your second overall pick coming off the bench. Usually those guys start in year number one. There’s a reason they’re the second overall pick. They’re good enough to start right away. And then you have your $27 million guy in Dumbell on the bench as well. All right. Don’t worry. Things are going to get positive. I know it sounds like a little maybe gloom and doom, but there there’s there’s definitely the chariot. There’s there’s a light at the end of the tunnel. All right. Lineup number three, we switch things around again. This is the the youth core lineup. I don’t know what you want to call it, but when you look at this lineup, Spurs fans, this is all the Spurs top 10 picks in the last four years from WBY to Harper. And then Darren Fox, our big trade last, well, actually, no, it was this year was earlier this year. My goodness, time flies. So, our ninth overall pick in 2022, the last man standing out of the 2022 draft class. Victor Webyama, the consensus by far number one overall pick in 2023. Stefon Castle number four overall pick in 24. Dylan Harper the number two overall pick in this year’s draft. That that’s crazy when you look at that. That’s four high well yeah three high lottery picks out of those five players in the starting lineup. But this would be a small lineup and the floor spacing could be disastrous. this would be the goal someday that these four can pull, you know, they would work together on the floor because they’re all young. Fox not 21, 20, 19, whatever. He’s not the youngest of the guys, but he’s still young. But this would be the goal, wouldn’t it? That this five right here, the Fantastic Five where their Fantastic Four young core work together and make it cook. Don’t see this happening. Not right away at least. But end goal maybe something like this. So, I don’t think that lineup would happen, but it might happen in portions this season, but not likely. All right. Hey, you never know. Could we see the Spurs shock a lot of people? Maybe not some of you because some of you said it’ll happen. You TSR, I believe it, but could we see Twin Towers light? WBY starting at the four, which he’d be a huge four, and Cornet starting at the five. Holy protection in this starting lineup. And definitely one of the biggest lineups we’ve had in I don’t know how long. I don’t see this happening either, but never say never. All right, TSR, what’s the point here? You’re showing all these lineups. You’re talking about the things that work that don’t work. Sounds like you don’t want to go with any of these lineups. To answer the question, Spurs fans, what should this first starting lineup should be? I honestly have no idea. I really don’t. The WBY and Fox are sure fire locks likely at the one and the five, but because of our depth, our personnel with overlapping position, similar heights, etc., etc. Honestly, guys, I think this season, we could see the two through four change often throughout the season as Mitch is trying to figure out things and figure out the best mix of players and who’s going to work to get work best together as starters. You could see men stagger. could see Wendy, maybe a cornet start, then one comes out and then I think they’re going to stagger things a lot. I certainly expect Castle, Harper, and Fox to each get at least 30 minutes per game as there’s a three little headed guard marks there. The Cell Johnson will get their minutes at the wing. It’s going to be fun. It’s It’s going to be fun. Probably a little frustrating at times to watch things play out throughout the season. I do think we’re getting a lot of wins along the way, but it is going to be a lot of fun to see what works, not so much what doesn’t, but there’s going to be a lot of changes throughout the season. And then there’s the X factor that we need to talk about Spurs fans. The huge X factor for this coming season. How much better will Castle and this this is just the offseason in general. This is everybody. How much better will Castle and Soan be after this off seasonason? We are seeing them put in the work on a regular basis. Just how good will Dylan Harper be as a rookie? Just how good will the Fox tow connection be when they have an off seasonason to work together and a healthy Darren Fox? He was injured all last season. Will Sohan be better not playing center Sohan and point guard Sohan? Will we actually see him reach maximum Sohandness playing in position? There’s a lot of questions going into the to the season that we’re not going to have answered right now. But this is why I say it’s such a fun time to be a Spurs fan because I really we haven’t seen the ceiling on a lot of our guys. Think about what our team went through last year. The head coach, the greatest head coach in Spurs history, maybe the greatest head coach of all time goes down what, game five, game six. Who the hell is ready for that? Nobody. Chaos. Complete chaos. Cats and dogs living together. Mass hysteria. I am so pumped for this season. I truly believe we’re going to be better than advertised. 50 wins. I’m calling it. I say it every video. Not every video mostly. 50 wins playoffs. If you believe you believe that WBY is the guy that he’s the next David Robinson and Tim Duncan type player for the Spurs, this is year number three. When you look at the guys around him, how can we not be a playoff game? If we’re a lottery team again, something has gone terribly wrong. Barring injuries, I’m excited, Spurs fans. I hope you are, too. I really think we’re going to cook this year. And there’s going to be, you know, a little frustrating moments as Mitch is trying to figure things out, but I think our players are good enough. our best players are good enough to help get us through that. I really do believe that. All right, after my rambling rant there, I’ll be live with Miss TSR and the couch contingent. 8:30 PM Eastern for the Spurs versus Jazz. I think this is going to be the last time we see Dylan Harper. Cooper flag was just shut down by the Mavericks after two games. This will be game number two for Harp. Fully expect him to play tonight, then be done. Ace Bailey did not play last night for the Jazz, so I’m hoping he plays tonight and then maybe he gets shut down, too. So, I’m excited for tonight’s game. Hope to see you in the chat. Drop a comment down below. Do you agree with me? The starting lineups might be a little fluid throughout the season as Mitch is trying to figure things out and tinker with the lineups. Maybe it’ll depend on who we’re playing. If the team against us is playing a small ball lineup, maybe we smart start switch it up and start a small ball lineup. If they’re going huge, maybe Cornet and Webby start. That’s one thing I love is we have deaths. We have a lot of depths and they can change things up as needed. Like, comment, subscribe, all that good stuff. Hope you’ve seen the chat tonight. Thank you. And as always, go Spurs go.

The San Antonio Spurs are looking good, wht should their starting line-up be? Playoffs or bust this year!?

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