The Spurs Are Ready to WIN NOW!

The Spurs Are Ready to WIN NOW!

Whether you love the contract or hate it, Spurs fans, let’s make the best of it. What is up, San Antonio Spurs fans? Welcome to TSR Sports. And of course, a lot of mixed reactions yesterday in regards to DRN Fox’s contract extension. I thought, you know what? It is what it is. I’m going to make the best of it. And caught in an article from Air Alamo making the best of it as well. I know you guys some are like Air Alamo, but I actually like this article and wanted to share it with you. But of course, I’m going to give my two cents while doing the article and at the end of the article. Some San Antonio Spurs fans have already been vocal about the long-term price tag attached during Fox after Monday’s big news. I’m certainly part of that crowd. Four years, 229 million is a lot to commit, and the concerns about future roster flexibility are not without merit. We’re all looking towards a future maybe a little too far. Spurs fans, you know, with the contract extensions coming up with Wemby Castle, Harper, Bryant, still got Sohan, it is what it is. Let’s focus on the now. When the Spurs pulled off the deadline deal to trade for Darren Fox, they added the one skill set that our Spurs young group desperately needed. A dynamic downhill guard who can control the game late and run the offense at a high level. He does do all that. Our Spurs have a roster centered around Victor Wemanyama. And with him as that foundation, the need for reliable lead guard becomes non-negotiable. Okay, that’s fair. And here’s a big part of the article that I want to focus on. Air Alamo Fox is worth the price tag. We know he’s a talented scorer, but he’s also a player who knows how to close games and understands what it takes to win. He is a former NBA clutch player of the year. And I believe he just missed a buzzer beater. I think that’s alluding to in the article last season. He hit a shot, but the the clock had just expired. But when’s the last time we’ve really had a clutch player on the Spurs that we could depend on to take that last shot? Dejanti Murray, Demard, Rosen, Kawhi. I mean, yeah, there’s some guys there here and there, but the last few years, Kelvin, Devin, now we got Webby and Fox certainly is not afraid to step up with the clock about to strike zero and take the final shot of the game. He’s proved it time and time again and he will prove that moving forward for our Spurs. Will his deal complicate future decisions maybe and this is where my concern has been. But if the Spurs plan to be competitive in the Western Conference anytime soon, and I got to think this year Spurs fans, we have missed the playoff six years in a row. I believe that is the second longest streak in the NBA. I like to see that streak end this season. And having a proven point guard like Fox next to WY is not a luxury. It’s a requirement. And that is exactly how the front office saw it. Trust the process, right? You guys say that a lot. Trust the process. Okay. For those questioning this first decision here, it might help to remember what the alternative would look like. And I think this is a very valid point. Rebuilding without a reliable backcourt leader is a good way to get end up stuck. And San Antonio is not interested in that. And as a fan base, we’re not interested in being a lottery team again, right? We’ve had enough of the lottery. this year’s lottery with Harper and with Bryant, that should be our last lottery pick, at least from the Spurs themselves. If we get a lottery pick from one of our future trades, so be it. Great. But from the Spurs themselves, this should be the last one for a long time. In regards to our point guard situation with the Aaron Fox, it’s been a mess. If you look at the last few years, I mean, look at the point guards we’ve had since Tony Parker left the team. I wish I could say he retired, but that one year, I I don’t want to talk about it. Dejante Murray who in his last season maybe not a popular opinion I thought Dejante was very good last year with the Spurs in 21-22 he averaged 218 and9 led the NBA in steals per game at two he was an all-star that year injury fine whatever but he was still an all-star and he was pretty good and we thought he was a point guard of the future until he was traded okay who’s up next Trey Jones. I like Trey Jones and he played good in Chicago. Very well actually as a a small spot starter I think believe due to injuries, but he’s likely a backup point guard for his career. A good backup. Great assist to turnover ratio, but a backup nonetheless. And he was our starter for what a year and some change. And then recently Chris Paul. Chris Paul, Hall of Famer, top 10 point guard of all time. Top five, I don’t know. Let you decide that. But he’s passed his prime. He absolutely played well and a shock he played in 82 games at the age of 39 in his 20th season, but he he’s never going to be the long-term answer. So, a one-year rental, if you will. Now, we have Darren Fox in his prime. He’s going into his prime. And I have all expectations that his hands, his shooting hands is going to be fine with the surgery. If the Spurs were truly worried about it, they would not have not only not have traded for him because he had the injury at the time, but they certainly with our medical staff, we got to think they’re smart enough to not offer somebody huge extension if there’s any type of injury concern. So, I’m not worried about the hand. Talk to the hand. But he’s going to be our starting point guard for the next at least I would say four to five years or maybe more. Who knows? Maybe he finish his year as a spur, his career as a Spur and you know it’s it’s Fox and Castle and Harper all on the court at the same time. Ambro, who the heck knows? We have stability now at point guard, something we haven’t had recently. And if we’re going to get the best version of Victor Wbeby, which we haven’t seen, the best version of WBY yet, we got rookie WBY who will be the worst version of himself until, you know, he gets older and things start breaking down, etc., etc. Had the medical issue, I guess, not an injury, medical issue last year, but we saw I think in December, wasn’t that not his best month? We saw MVP level Wemby. Imagine the best version of Darren Fox with the best version of Wemby. That should be scary. That should be really good. I mean, we’ve talked about this. They barely played together last season. Both dealt with their own medical issues. They’re going to have an off seasonason to work together. This could really be a a nightmare for opposing defenses because you got to focus on Victor Wemanyama. He’s going to be the guy that defenses are going to plan for first. Fox is a great offensive player, a scoring machine. But how are you going to stop the Kaiju out there, the guy that’s 7 foot6, 7 foot7 that can shoot threes and has moves. He’s going to be number one focal point. We saw it last year. Got double team, got triple teamed. I don’t think he gets triple teamed with Fox in the court, but he may still get double teamed at times. And Fox with his speed might be able to just break down the defense, get in there and get a bucket, get a layup, get a dunk, whatever it may be. Warfrey penetrates into the paint. He got the eyes on Wem. I got eyes on him and somebody’s going to be open for three, which just means hopefully our three-point shooters are are hitting their threes. But I think this offense is going to really cook and it’s going to be a lot of fun to watch. And you know, it is what it is. He has the contract. I’m all on board. Am I Does the contract size and future calf issue concern me a little bit? Yes. But nothing I can do about it. I’m a Spurs fan and this is the decision they made. They felt it was the right decision and I had my overreaction Monday. I’m ready to move on and see what these two can do on the court. The contract’s huge. But we know what we’re paying with Fox when we speculate about future cap issues. We haven’t seen Sohan ceiling castles Harpers or we haven’t seen Harper Bryant play a real NBA minute. So I’m going to put myself in this group worrying about how we’re going to extend our core guys in the future when we don’t even know if they’re going to be a core guy in the future. Bryant might not be the guy we think he’s going to be. Harper may not. And I’m not wishing anything bad on these players, the record. But the guys that we’re hoping work out, they might not be part of the Spurs future in four or five years if they don’t become the player we think they’re going to. We’ve already seen this happen with Kelman Johnson, Dell, Brandon Wesley already gone. Joshua Primo offc court issues notwithstanding off the team. We’ve had a lot of guy Lonnie Walker just keep donte Murray. We as a channel community over the past six years have had a lot of guys come to the team and said he’s going to be part of our core for the next decade or more. Spur for life. We’ve all said that about numerous players. A lot of them are gone. And I I personally find myself saying that about some current players such as Castle, Harper, and Bryant. And we don’t know. What we do know is Darren Fox is a top 10 point guard in the NBA. Some of you last night were saying he’s ranked 15th or 16th. I’m seeing as a top 10 point guard. Top five, I don’t know. Maybe maybe not. Not here to argue that. But he’s got his Robin. Batman’s got his Robin. Let’s roll it. Let’s have a fun season. Let’s make the playoffs. Let’s get a top 16. Win some playoff games. Maybe get out of the first round and just have I’m I’m looking forward to this season. I I got I got my overreaction out yesterday. I’m ready for this to happen. Of course, it’s going to be a few months before it happens, but that’s all I got. Spurs fans, now that you’ve had some time to digest this. Are you feeling better about it? Or are you still looking at us like TSR? I’m glad we extended him, but I think it’s still too much. We’re going to have cap issues in the future. Let me know in the comments down below. Hit the thumbs up if support the channel. Subscribe to become part of our awesome Spurs community. I thank you. And as always, go Spurs go. I stay.

The San Antonio Spurs have secured their point guard of the future by extendind De’Aaron Fox.

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