After the Pistons yesterday, we continue today with another franchise that has struggled to win games this season: the San Antonio Spurs. It was planned, it happened, well yeah guys, but not that there is nothing to say about the Texans season. Are we giving you a topo?
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WHAT TRASHTALK HAD ANNOUNCED
The question we asked ourselves at the start of the season? “What advice could we give to Spurs fans to get through this complicated season without too much damage?” If you’re here to read this sentence, then you’re alive, so much the better. The Gerard d’Or? Malaki Branham for Alex, Devin Vassell for Bastien, rather well seen for once, or at least half. For the house forecast, it started with 17/18 wins and again it hits the 1000, to believe that our two darlings know a little about what they are talking about.
WHAT REALLY HAPPENED
22 wins and 60 losses, about what we expected.
A start to the season… thunder, yes, so much so that one wonders if the Spurs are capable of one day losing more than they win. Keldon Johnson and Devin Vassell are two incredible leaders, Jakob Poeltl is dominant af, Josh Primo and/or Tre Jones manage at the baton and after seven games it clearly plays the title (5-2).
Stop, we stop everything.
We stop everything because the romance between the Spurs and the ball stops there for this season. October 30 Joshua Primo is cut in strange circumstances and we learn a few hours later that he has been guilty of very inappropriate acts internally, several times, since a lease. Local hope is gone and it’s hard to talk about basketball in San Antonio, especially since from November 3 to December 4 Spurs will only win one game, thus officially positioning itself for the May Lottery, as planned. But it won’t be the worst series of the Spurs season because between the beginning of January and the end of February the Spurs lose 16 games in a row and validate a 21/22 in the radius of defeats. Dirty… but clean, the place in the trio of “headed” for the Draft is almost acquired at the end of All-Star Weekend, pro work, work of Pop, he who knows moreover in Boston the most big defeat of his career, it had to happen.
Spurs games? They look at each other, rather twice than once because, like the Pacers in the East for example, they are as many offensive orgies always sweet to put in their mouths. Tre Jones is having fun at the lead, Jakob Poeltl returned to Toronto and Devin Vassell is injured very early in the season but rookie Jeremy Sochan quickly recovers the costume of local darling by chaining big perfs with big volume, hair colors and one-handed throws, and quietly SA will end its season with the penultimate report of the League, with a smile, not without breaking a new record with almost 70,000 fans present for an NBA game in their old den of the Alamodome . The “exclamation” point of this season? Gregg Popovich, Becky Hammon and Tony Parker who learn with the arrival of spring that they will join the Hall of Fame in September, a clever way of reminding us that the Spurs as a whole are worth so much better than this very complicated 2022-23 season…
THE SPURS SEASON IN A FEW ARTICLES
IMAGE OF THE SEASON
January 14, 2023, birthday of my oldest friend, Rémy, but above all an all-time attendance record for an NBA game. Almost 70K, we are not talking about the amount received by Damian Lillard at each of his lay-ups but the number of fans present that evening at the Alamadome in San Antonio to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the arrival in town of the Spurs. A 144-113 defeat against the Warriors but it was obviously not the most important thing that evening, an evening suspended in time, in a city that weighs much more in the game than its 2023 record would have us believe.
HOT HIT: JEREMY SOCHAN
We could have talked to you about Keldon Johnson, comfortable in his role as boss, or even about Devin Vassell, the house MIP of this strange season. We will rather start with the interesting and intriguing profile of Jeremy Sochan, a whimsical winger but a winger so useful to Spurs from his rookie season. Drafted with pick 9, the man with hairstyles as original as his way of shooting throws stood out for his versatility, his energy and the range of his offensive proposals. Sometimes Dennis Rodman sometimes Kevin Knox, Sochan is a player who is sometimes unreadable but who cannot leave you unmoved. 11 points, 5.3 rebounds, 2.5 assists and 0.8 steals, a real chemistry on and off the field with Keldon Johnson and a Pop close to the dubbing when we knew him less tender with the rookies… in short, this young man has everything to please and everything to succeed.
WE WAITED FOR IT AND STILL WAITING FOR IT: JOSHUA PRIMO
Joshua Primo’s time in San Antonio was ultimately very short. On October 30, the very young sophomore playmaker (20 years old) was cut by the Texas franchise after being guilty of repeated obscene gestures against people working at the Spurs. Attempt at the beginning of an explanation of the Primo clan, the kid is mentally fragile and makes his mea culpa, but too late, the project is no more and we will therefore never know the apex of the marriage between the youngest player in Spurs history and his coach Gregg Popovich, who nevertheless seemed to want to make him, in the long term, one of his leaders. Sad for the Spurs, sad for Josh Primo, above all, while waiting to see if he manages one day to get rid of this huge “saucepan” to get his career off the ground… elsewhere.
INDIVIDUAL STATISTICS
… AND THE NEXT?
Create the start of something big with Victor Wembanyama, whom the Spurs should probably (lol) draft in 1 on June 22. Tanking offered an incredible gift to the Texas franchise and the latter will try to start a new cycle, as with David Robinson, as with Tim Duncan. For the rest ? Continuing to develop the franchise’s healthy, youthful base, obviously. Tre Jones, Devin Vassell, Keldon Johnson, Jeremy Sochan, Malaki Branham or even Blake Wesley, so many kids to rediscover very quickly, so many kids who will try to participate in the medium term in the return of Spurs to the Playoffs. As for Gregg Popovich, the bug was a glass of Petrus ready to drop a retirement announcement fax but he could well leave for a very exciting CDD.
Defeats, defeats and more defeats… but in fact a lot to remember from this 2022-23 season for the Spurs and above all a magical conclusion that makes us want to jump. in October. And at worst, in any case… it will be difficult to do worse.
2023-05-23 11:11:00
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