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Sep 15, 2016
Tony Parker
Position: Guard
Experience: 15 years
Age: 34
Danny Green
Position: Guard
Experience: 7 years
Age: 29
Kawhi Leonard
Position: Forward
Experience: 5 years
Age: 25
LaMarcus Aldridge
Position: Forward
Experience: 10 years
Age: 31
Pau Gasol
Position: Center
Experience: 15 years
Age: 36
Manu Ginobili
Position: Guard
Experience: 14 years
Age: 39
Patty Mills
Position: Guard
Experience: 7 years
Age: 28
Kyle Anderson
Position: Forward
Experience: 2 years
Age: 22
DeWayne Dedmon
Position: Center
Experience: 3 years
Age: 27
David Lee
Position: Forward
Experience: 11 years
Age: 33
Jonathon Simmons
Position: Guard
Experience: 1 year
Age: 26 (27 on Sept. 14)
Davis Bertans
Position: Forward
Experience: Rookie
Age: 23
Dejounte Murray
Position: Guard
Experience: Rookie
Age: 19 (20 on Sept. 19)
Livio Jean-Charles
Position: Forward
Experience: Rookie
Age: 22
Ryan Arcidiacono
Position: Guard
Experience: Rookie
Age: 22
Bryn Forbes
Position: Guard
Experience: Rookie
Age: 23
Patricio Garino
Position: Guard
Experience: Rookie
Age: 23
Nicolas Laprovittola
Position: Guard
Experience: Rookie
Age: 26
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How will Kawhi Leonard, LaMarcus Aldridge and the San Antonio Spursdo in 2016-17?
Here are our player scouting reports and analysis.
Tony Parker
Position: Guard
Experience: 15 years
Age: 34
Scouting report
+ Post-prime point guard who's no longer offensive lynchpin
+ Accurate though infrequent outside shooter
+ Weakest link in elite San Antonio defense
Analysis
Believe it or not, Parker is entering his 16th NBA season and turned 34 in May. As he has aged, the Spurs' offense has moved away from relying on Parker's penetration to featuring post-ups and isolations on the wing, a trend that will likely continue this season after he averaged just 26.4 minutes per game in the playoffs.
Parker used 21.2 percent of San Antonio's plays last season, down from 24.5 percent in 2014-15 and his lowest mark since his rookie season. While Parker has become an accurate outside shooter, he's not a prolific one, at least from 3-point range -- Parker attempted just 65 3s despite making them at better than a 40 percent clip for the second consecutive season.
Last season, Parker got to the basket somewhat more frequently, at least relative to his shot attempts. He took 31.1 percent of them inside three feet, per Basketball-Reference.com, up from 25.5 percent the previous season. Parker remains an effective finisher around the basket, but doesn't drive and dish to set up teammates as frequently as he did during his offensive prime.
Now that he no longer has the quickness to compensate for his small stature, the 6-foot-2 Parker has become a defensive target for opponents who find few other places to attack the Spurs' stout defense. San Antonio likes to cross match with Parker defending less threatening opponents off the ball.
Danny Green
Position: Guard
Experience: 7 years
Age: 29
Scouting report
+ Premier 3-and-D wing coming off down season
+ Suffered through season-long shooting slump
+ Agile wing defender who excels against PGs
Analysis
The Spurs kept waiting for Green to shake off an inexplicable shooting slump, but it never happened until the playoffs. Green hit better than 40 percent of his 3-pointers each of his first four seasons in San Antonio, but started off 2015-16 ice cold, making 30.1 percent of his 3s through December. When Green hit 49.1 percent from downtown in January, it looked like regression to the mean was finally taking hold, but he was much worse after the All-Star break, sinking to 27.7 percent beyond the arc. Just as unexpectedly as Green lost his shot, he found it in the playoffs, making half of his 48 3-point attempts.
Given that more than 60 percent of Green's shots come from 3-point range, it's especially important for him to be hitting from long distance. He struggles to create off the dribble, making just 27.4 percent of his rare pull-up attempts according to SportVU tracking on NBA.com/Stats, so there's little way for Green to compensate other than attempting fewer shots (his usage rate went down from 17.5 percent in 2014-15 to a career-low 14.6 percent).
Fortunately, Green didn't let his missed shots affect his defense. In fact, his plus-2.9 defensive rating in ESPN's real plus-minus (RPM) led all shooting guards. The 6-foot-6 Green is big enough to defend small forwards -- including occasionally Kevin Durant during the playoffs -- but really excels against point guards, using his 6-foot-10 wingspan to block passing lanes. He denies passes well off the ball and will even use verticality around the basket as the NBA's new premier shot-blocking guard (he blocked 2.4 percent of opponents' 2-point attempts, average for a power forward and best among guards).
Kawhi Leonard
Position: Forward
Experience: 5 years
Age: 25
Scouting report
+ Elite two-way player who earned All-NBA First Team honors
+ Increased usage rate while simultaneously improving efficiency
+ Lockdown individual defender who also excels offering help
Analysis
Last season saw Leonard fully realized. (We think. He didn't turn 25 until after the season.) Healthy from day one, Leonard picked up defensively where he left off in winning his first Defensive Player of the Year award in 2014-15 while taking a major step forward as a go-to scorer. The result was Leonard doing the previously unthinkable: beating out a healthy Kevin Durant for a spot on the All-NBA First Team at forward next toLeBron James.
It's hard to believe now that Leonard was an offensive afterthought as recently as 2013-14, when he used just 18.3 percent of the Spurs' plays. That jumped to 23 percent in 2014-15, then again to 25.8 percent last season. That's still relatively low for a superstar -- aside from Leonard, the other noncenter All-NBA First Teamers since 2010-11 have averaged 30.5 percent usage, and only point guard Chris Paul has made the team with a lower usage rate in that span.
However, Leonard still creates plenty of his own shots in isolation -- just 45 percent of his made 2-pointers were assisted each of the past two seasons, per Basketball-Reference.com -- allowing him to ramp up his usage. And remarkably, he didn't sacrifice efficiency to do it. In fact, by virtue of hitting a career-high 44.3 percent of his 3-pointers (a mark that led the league for much of the season), Leonard's .616 true shooting percentage was the best of his career.
Still, Leonard's greater value comes at the defensive end, where he's the NBA equivalent to a shutdown cornerback opponents dare not test. In fact, like Darrelle Revis, he welcomed his matchup to "Kawhi Island." Leonard's steal rate slipped slightly from 2014-15, when players couldn't even dribble the ball around him safely but was still elite, and he blocked nearly as many shots as Green. Now that he has won back-to-back Defensive Player of the Year trophies, consider Leonard the exception to the rule that big men are generally more valuable defensively than perimeter players.
LaMarcus Aldridge
Position: Forward
Experience: 10 years
Age: 31
Scouting report
+ Accurate-shooting big man who thrives in midrange
+ Adapted to hold ball less on post-ups and isolations
+ Big power forward who's ineffective protecting the rim
Analysis
It took some time, but Aldridge found a way to marry his All-Star game with San Antonio's championship-winning system after signing with the Spurs as a free agent in the summer of 2015. Aldridge cut his average touch time from 1.94 seconds per touch in Portland to 1.63 in San Antonio, per SportVU tracking on NBA.com/Stats, making quicker decisions with the ball and moving it when he didn't have a shot. The result was the most efficient offensive season of Aldridge's career.
There were other changes to Aldridge's game. He was assisted on 66 percent of his 2-point attempts, according to Basketball-Reference.com, up from 46.8 percent with the Blazers. And while the Spurs' offense emphasized the midrange shots on which Aldridge excels, he shot fewer of them than in the past and got more easy buckets around the rim. That produced a .565 true shooting percentage, Aldridge's best to date. He got more comfortable during the season, improving his true shooting percentage (and his scoring average) each full month of the schedule. And in the playoffs, Aldridge's ability to post up smaller defenders -- where he favors turnaround jumpers -- and take slower ones to the perimeter made him San Antonio's first option on offense.
One subtle benefit of adding Aldridge was that the Spurs had two players taller than 6-foot-11 in their starting lineup while still getting the advantages of playing Tim Duncan alongside a floor-spacing power forward. Though Aldridge isn't a good enough shot-blocker to anchor an elite defense as a center, he's above average playing next to a rim protector and also defends well against the pick-and-roll.
Pau Gasol
Position: Center
Experience: 15 years
Age: 36
Scouting report
+ Aging All-Star who continues to be effective offensively
+ Elite passer and accurate outside shooter who has added 3-point range
+ Immobile defender whose teams rarely force turnovers
Analysis
At age 35, Gasol was chosen for his sixth All-Star Game as an injury replacement and averaged a double-double for the fifth time in his career. But the Chicago Bulls had a tough time finding the right fit around Gasol at both ends of the court and made no effort to retain him as an unrestricted free agent. Gasol signed in San Antonio as a replacement for the retiring Duncan, one future Hall of Famer stepping in for another.
Of course, Gasol brings a very different style to the frontcourt than Duncan did over the past two decades. He's a more skilled offensive player who used nearly a quarter of Chicago's plays last season, far more than Duncan with the Spurs (17.6 percent usage). So while that will probably go down, expect Gasol to take some shots away from San Antonio's other starters. Gasol is no longer a particularly good post option (He averaged 0.8 points per play on post-ups, per Synergy Sports tracking on NBA.com/Stats, second worst among players with at least 200 such shot attempts). Instead, Gasol is best used at the elbow, where he can make plays for teammates with his outstanding court vision for a 7-footer and is an accurate midrange shooter. He has also become a pick-and-pop threat out beyond the 3-point line, making a career-high 24 triples last season at a 34.8 percent clip.
The downgrade for the Spurs will come at the defensive end. Even in his final season, Duncan ranked second in the NBA in defensive RPM on a per-possession basis. Gasol remains a capable rim protector when he's in position -- the 4.7 percent of opponents' 2-point attempts he blocked last season was a career high -- but can't always get there when he's playing away from the basket. Gasol's defenses tend not to force turnovers. Last year's Bulls had the 10th-lowest opponent turnover rate relative to league average since the ABA-NBA merger, a list with Gasol's 2011-12 L.A. Lakers at the top (or bottom). And despite the fact that Gasol is an outstanding defensive rebounder, Chicago rebounded much worse with him on the court -- a consistent trend in recent years.
Manu Ginobili
Position: Guard
Experience: 14 years
Age: 39
Scouting report
+ Future Hall of Famer remains effective reserve in late 30s
+ Efficient scorer who serves as co-point guard on offense
+ Aggressive, instinctive defender with high steal rate
Analysis
Closing in on age 40 (he turned 39 in July), Ginobili remains San Antonio's top reserve and an indispensable part of the system. It's unthinkable that Ginobili could play somewhere else, but the Philadelphia 76ers reportedly came calling with a big offer for the unrestricted free agent this summer before the Spurs upped their own offer to $14 million for 2016-17.
Ginobili has proven an effective partner in the second-unit backcourt for Mills, allowing the score-first point guard to play off the ball at times, while Ginobili runs the offense. In another lifetime, on another team, Ginobili could have been a devastating lead ball handler. As it is, he averaged more assists per minute than Mills and remains capable of getting to the basket off the dribble if no longer the outstanding finisher of his heyday, making a career-low 53.7 percent of his attempts inside three feet according to Basketball-Reference.com. After a series of down years from 3-point range, Ginobili hit 39.1 percent from beyond the arc last season and was even better (42.9 percent) in the playoffs.
Defensively, Ginobili remains the wide-ranging free safety to Leonard's cornerback. His steal rate (3 per 100 team plays) ranked in the NBA's top 10 among players with at least 1,000 minutes. Ginobili has phenomenal ability to recognize plays before they're happening and is a historically great defender of inbound passes -- although he did commit a violationwhen pressuring Dion Waiters during the wild finish to Game 2 of the Spurs' series with the Oklahoma City Thunder.
Patty Mills
Position: Guard
Experience: 7 years
Age: 28
Scouting report
+ Aggressive point guard who's a dangerous scorer
+ Fine outside shooter who likes pull-up game
+ Active defender, though vulnerable to misdirection
Analysis
Healthy last season after missing the first part of the 2014-15 season following shoulder surgery, Mills returned to being one of the league's top backup point guards. His elite performances for the Australian national team, including averaging 21.3 points on .604 true shooting percentage in the 2016 Olympics, makes one wonder what Mills could do if he got a chance to start.
Of course, one reason Mills makes more sense in a reserve role is that he's not really a point guard and gets to share ball handling duties with Ginobili off the bench. Not only is Mills' court vision limited, he's a dangerous weapon playing off the ball coming off screens -- something he does for the national team playing alongside Matthew Dellavedova -- and spotting up. After hitting just 34.1 percent of his 3-point attempts in 2014-15, Mills bounced back to 38.4 percent. He's not quite as effective as a pick-and-roll ball handler because of his tendency to shoot pull-up jumpers just inside the line. He made an inefficient 39.5 percent of his 2-point attempts beyond 16 feet, according to Basketball-Reference.com.
Defensively, Mills is hyperkinetic, sprinting everywhere on the court. That generally works well to compensate for his small size (6-foot, 185) but can leave Mills going quickly the wrong direction when opponents beat him backdoor or catch him leaning the wrong way off the dribble. Mills has improved his ability to navigate screens on the ball.
Kyle Anderson
Position: Forward
Experience: 2 years
Age: 22
Scouting report
+ Versatile combo forward found a role off bench
+ Most effective with the ball in his hands
+ Struggles to contain elite athletes off the dribble
Analysis
Duncan delivered one of the lines of the 2015-16 season when he told reporters that he came to a realization watching Anderson on a fast break. "I can get Kyle in a footrace," Duncan said. "I can get him. That's bad." Alas, one of the two chooses not to race, so we'll never know. Despite his well-documented lack of quickness, the man known as "Slo Mo" found a role on the Spurs' second unit in his second season as a backup small forward.
Throughout his prep career, Anderson had the ball in his hands as the focal point of an offense, but his skills don't merit that role in the NBA. So he has had to discover how to be effective without the ball. That started with improved shooting. While Anderson still made just 32.4 percent of his limited 3-point attempts, he knocked down a solid 45.2 percent of his 2-point attempts from beyond 16 feet per Basketball-Reference.com. Anderson was also able to use his playmaking as an entry passer, and of course he did get chances to play isolation basketball, where he likes to use a crossover or back down smaller opponents -- and that's nearly all of them at small forward -- from the perimeter. Anderson's isolation results suggest he might merit more opportunities. He shot 57.1 percent on such plays according to Synergy Sports tracking on NBA.com/Stats.
Defensively, Anderson is stuck somewhere between small forward and power forward. On the wing, his lateral mobility isn't good enough to deal with go-to scorers, and Anderson hasn't been able to use his size to contest from behind. Power forwards are probably more ideal matchups, but Anderson gives up strength at the position. However, he's a good enough rebounder to hold his own at the 4 and may get more minutes there with David West's departure.
DeWayne Dedmon
Position: Center
Experience: 3 years
Age: 27
Scouting report
+ Productive on per-minute basis but failed to win trust of coaches
+ Above-the-rim finisher who rolls hard to the rim
+ Mobile defender whose instincts don't match athleticism
Analysis
With only their $2.9 million room exception to sign a backup center, San Antonio did well to grab Dedmon, who brings needed athleticism to their frontcourt. Despite averaging 13 points, 11.6 rebounds and 2.6 blocks per 36 minutes last season with the Orlando Magic, Dedmon was as likely to get a DNP-CD (22 times) as start (20 times) in Scott Skiles' rotation roulette. We'll find out this season whether Skiles knew something the rest of us didn't.
During their playoff loss to the Oklahoma City Thunder, the Spurs were lacking a roll man who could expose Enes Kanter's difficulty defending the pick-and-roll. Dedmon could be that guy off the bench. He shot a robust 71.2 percent as a roll man last season, third-best among players with at least 50 such shot attempts according to Synergy Sports tracking on NBA.com/Stats. And despite concerns about his hands, Dedmon's turnover rate in the pick-and-roll (6.1 percent) was on the low side. The Magic used Dedmon at times in the high post, but that's a poor fit since he shot just 33.3 percent outside the paint, per NBA.com/Stats.
Dedmon's athleticism is a welcome addition at the defensive end as well. He moves well for a 7-foot center and can hedge against the pick-and-roll on the perimeter and successfully recover or even switch on guards without completely embarrassing himself. Dedmon's volleyball background -- raised as a Jehovah's Witness, he didn't play basketball until age 18, as Chris Ballard detailed in a wonderful Sports Illustrated feature -- shows up in the way he powerfully blocks shots at an above-average rate, albeit frequently out of bounds. But Dedmon's late start also means he doesn't read plays quickly -- one reason coaches have been reluctant to turn him loose.
David Lee
Position: Forward
Experience: 11 years
Age: 33
Scouting report
+ Aging big man who remains threat diving to the basket
+ Ambidextrous finisher who shoots high percentage at rim
+ Poor defender who's too slow to play on perimeter
Analysis
Given his well-earned reputation as an all-offense, no-defense big man, Lee doesn't exactly fit the San Antonio model. But teams with only the minimum salary to offer can't be choosers, and Lee signed a two-year deal for the veteran's minimum that includes a 2017-18 player option. He's the favorite to replace West as the Spurs' backup big man.
Lee began last season as the Boston Celtics' starting power forward but lost the job after just three games. He was dreadful in Boston, shooting 45.5 percent on 2-point attempts after never having been below 50 percent before. Brad Stevens excised him from the rotation in December, and the Celtics took off while Lee worked with the training staff to improve his conditioning in anticipation of another opportunity.
That chance came after a buyout, when Lee landed with the Dallas Mavericks as a free agent as an entirely different player. He was a perfect fit for the Mavericks' pick-and-roll game, beating slower centers to the basket, where he can finish with either hand. Lee's 2-point percentage shot up to 63.6 percent in Dallas, which would have been a career high. Expect San Antonio to use him in a similar fashion, albeit more likely as a power forward than a center.
After all, the 6-foot-9 Lee offers no deterrence at the rim. While he blocked shots at a career-high rate last season, he was still only average for a center. Lee isn't much better at power forward. Guarding stretch 4s on the perimeter is too much to ask from him at age 33, so despite strong defensive rebounding Lee is a major defensive liability.
Jonathon Simmons
Position: Guard
Experience: 1 year
Age: 26 (27 on Sept. 14)
Scouting report
+ Defensive-minded wing who fell out of favor during rookie season
+ Capable secondary ball handler who shot 38.3 percent from 3-point range
+ Has necessary physical tools but not yet reliable individual defender
Analysis
For much of his rookie season, Simmons looked like the Spurs' latest D-League success story. He was a key reserve from December through February, supplying 3-and-D play on the wing and bringing needed youth and energy to the San Antonio second unit. Then, Simmons fell out of the rotation and played just 26 minutes in the playoffs, none against Oklahoma City. He'll have to battle in training camp to win his spot back.
Simmons was a pleasant surprise offensively, translating his effective play in summer league in 2015. His improved D-League 3-point shooting in 2014-15 carried over to the NBA as Simmons shot a solid 38.3 percent from beyond the arc, albeit on just 47 attempts. Nearly half of Simmons' shots came within three feet, per Basketball-Reference.com, and he proved particularly adept at generating easy scores by running the floor hard in transition. Simmons can also handle the ball -- he has played point guard in summer league -- and initiate the offense.
The coaching staff's concerns probably had more to do with the defensive end. An athletic 6-foot-6, Simmons has stopper potential he has yet to harness. He likes to play up into ball handlers and overplay in the passing lanes, but generated few steals while taking the risk of defensive breakdowns. If Simmons simply executes the scheme and stays solid, he'll find his way back into the rotation.
Davis Bertans
Position: Forward
Experience: Rookie
Age: 23
Scouting report
+ Latvian stretch 4 who will fill Matt Bonner's role
+ Accurate 3-point shooter from FIBA line
+ May struggle to find a position he can defend
Analysis
Five years after San Antonio added Bertans with a second-round pick acquired in the trade that brought them Leonard, he's finally joining the team on a two-year minimum contract that is fully guaranteed. Now 23 (he'll turn 24 in November) and fully recovered from an ACL tear suffered in 2013, Bertans takes Matt Bonner's long-time spot as the Spurs' stretch 4 off the bench. (He won't be able to replace Bonner's unique off-the-court humor. Nobody could.)
A native of Latvia, Bertans has spent the past two seasons playing for Laboral Kutxa Baskonia in Spain, where he shot 46.2 percent from 3-point range in 2015-16 between ACB and Euroleague play. My SCHOENE projection system translates that to about 36.6 percent accuracy from the NBA line, factoring in the lower percentage he shot in 2014-15 (38.7 percent) and the transition that often leads to lower 3-point percentages for international players as NBA rookies. Bertans knows his role: 130 of his 175 shots last season came from beyond the arc.
The big question with Bertans will be whether he can guard NBA opponents. At 6-foot-9, 210, he's going to give up a lot of strength to power forwards, yet doesn't appear quick enough to defend on the wing full-time. If Bertans plays with Anderson, a combination that could work well offensively, they might be able to cross match at times to hide Bertans defensively.
Dejounte Murray
Position: Guard
Experience: Rookie
Age: 19 (20 on Sept. 19)
Scouting report
+ Big point guard who was inefficient in lone college season
+ Excels at getting to the basket but struggles to finish there
+ Has defensive potential if he can maintain focus on each play
Analysis
Murray's draft-night slide may ultimately prove the best thing for him. Considered a possible late lottery pick, Murray nearly ended up stuck in the green room the entire first round before San Antonio grabbed him with the No. 29 overall pick in a value play. Given the importance of improving his shooting to Murray's long-term future, he couldn't have found a better shooting coach than the Spurs' Chip Engelland.
A 6-foot-5 point guard with a wingspan measured at more than 6-foot-9 in 2014, per DraftExpress, Murray has tantalizing physical tools. That starts with his ability to create off the dribble. Murray has the elusive "shake" scouts want in point guards, which allows him to beat defenders and get into the paint. The first question is whether he can actually finish there. Murray shot just 58.6 percent at the rim during his lone season at Washington according to Hoop-Math.com. Then there's the question of how much defenders will back off him given Murray shot 28.8 percent from 3-point range while firing up three-and-a-half triples per game. Murray's form isn't bad, so there's hope for improvement, but he wasn't much better at the free throw line in college (66.3 percent).
Murray's size gives him the potential to become a plus defender, but he'll have to become a lot more sound on a play-to-play basis. He had a tendency to lose focus defending on the weak side, leaving him in poor position to contest shots when the ball was reversed. Murray also doesn't contain the ball as well one-on-one as you'd expect given his athleticism. However, he's a good rebounder for a point guard who grabbed a higher percentage of defensive rebounds than teammate Marquese Chriss, a 6-foot-9 power forward drafted in the lottery.
Livio Jean-Charles
Position: Forward
Experience: Rookie
Age: 22
Scouting report
+ San Antonio's 2013 first-round pick headed to NBA
+ Perimeter-oriented power forward who lacks 3-point range
+ Poor defensive rebounder who will be at strength disadvantage
Analysis
Months after he was drafted by San Antonio No. 28 overall in 2013 at age 19, Jean-Charles suffered a torn ACL playing for the U20 French national team. Since missing the 2013-14 season, Jean-Charles hasn't continued his upward trajectory, but the Spurs still signed him to a standard rookie-scale contract this summer. Jean-Charles will likely spend much of the season with the team's D-League affiliate in Austin.
Jean-Charles' game was built on athleticism, and while he remains a capable finisher who has a decent midrange stroke (albeit not 3-point range; he took just 14 triples from the FIBA 3-point line last season), he no longer can entirely compensate for being slight for a power forward at 6-foot-9, 217. Jean-Charles is notably weak on the defensive glass and didn't particularly look like an NBA player in summer league the past two years.
Ryan Arcidiacono
Position: Guard
Experience: Rookie
Age: 22
Scouting report
+ Steady combo guard with NCAA 3-point range
+ Will be at athletic disadvantage in NBA
Analysis
Last spring, March Madness became Arch madness (with apologies to the Missouri Valley Conference Tournament) as the Villanova senior point guard with the difficult-to-pronounce surname helped his school to its first national title since 1985. Arcidiacono averaged 15.8 points per game during the tournament and was named Most Outstanding Player of the Final Four. None of that guarantees him a spot in the NBA, however, as an undrafted rookie on a partially-guaranteed contract with the Spurs for training camp.
Arcidiacono looks a lot like a quality college player whose game won't quite measure up in the NBA. He has no single obvious NBA skill except protecting the basketball, since he was a good but not great college 3-point shooter (39.4 percent as a senior, 34.8 percent career) who's not an exceptional playmaker or athletic defender. But as in college, the whole may be greater than the sum of the parts.
Bryn Forbes
Position: Guard
Experience: Rookie
Age: 23
Scouting report
+ Undersized 3-point sharpshooter with definite NBA range
+ Too small and slight to defend most NBA shooting guards
Analysis
Of the three players in the mix so far for the 15th spot on the San Antonio roster, Forbes has the most guaranteed money in his contract -- $125,000,per Eric Pincus of BasketballInsiders.com. Forbes earned that with a strong showing for the Spurs this summer, shooting 40.6 percent from the NBA 3-point line between Salt Lake City and Las Vegas.
There's no doubt Forbes can shoot it -- he led the Big Ten with 112 3-pointers on 48.1 percent accuracy as a senior at Michigan State -- and he flashed an unexpectedly impressive off-the-dribble game this summer. The issue remains how to hide Forbes defensively. He's not a good enough ball handler to play point guard and, at 6-foot-3, 175 is tiny for a shooting guard. Players like Ginobili and Murray could cross match with him defensively, so San Antonio is a good spot for Forbes to try to stick.
Patricio Garino
Position: Guard
Experience: Rookie
Age: 23
Scouting report
+ Tough wing defender with good feel for the game
+ Capable 3-point shooter from college/FIBA lines
Analysis
In addition to Ginobili, the Spurs also drafted Luis Scola (though his rights were traded before he could join the team) and employed Fabricio Oberto -- one third of the Argentine-born players in NBA history. Garino could become the latest. The George Washington product will battle for a spot in training camp after starting alongside Ginobili in the Olympics, averaging 6.3 points and 3.2 rebounds per game.
The 6-foot-6 Garino is physical enough to defend either wing spot, though he's a poor rebounder for a shooting guard, let alone a small forward. Still, he impressed in Rio with his ability to defend one-on-one and follow his assignment through off-ball screens. A role player at the other end, Garino never used plays at much more than an average rate in college and took nearly a third of his shots from beyond the arc, where he shot 43 percent as a senior but just 36.4 percent for his career.
Nicolas Laprovittola
Position: Guard
Experience: Rookie
Age: 26
Scouting report
+ Capable playmaker with high turnover rate
+ Frequent but not particularly accurate 3-point shooter
Analysis
San Antonio added another Argentine to the battle for the 15th roster spot after the Olympics, signing Laprovittola according to ESPN's Marc Stein. The only true point guard among the Spurs' invitees, Laprovittola would give them a third player at the position, though the ability of Ginobili and Simmons to run the offense means that might not be a necessity.
A 6-foot-3 point guard, Laprovittola split last season between Lithuanian club Lietuvos Rytas Vilnius and Estudiantes of the Spanish ACB, shooting just 40.1 percent between ACB and EuroCup competition. Laprovittola attempted nearly as many 3-pointers as 2-point shots, but made them at just a 34.1 percent clip combined. He'll have to be more accurate in the NBA since he doesn't project as a capable finisher.
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@Duncan&Kidd홧팅 아아...캠프군요. ㅎ
개막이 다가오는게 느껴지네요~~ 이런 글을 보니 설레입니다!! ^0^
수비에서 문제가 될 것으로 예상되는 선수들. 파우가솔, 토니파커, 패티밀스, 데이빗리, 카일앤더슨, 베르탄스. 필연적으로 시간을 많이 받을텐데 어떻게 이들의 단점을 커버해줄지 궁금하네요.
운동능력 및 사이즈는 좋으나 완숙미가 부족한 데드먼, 머뤼, 장샤를이 잘 보완해줬으면 좋겠습니다.
정말 잘 읽었습니다.
던컨이 없는 수비가 어떻게 이뤄질까 좀 걱정되기도 하네요. 카와이가 있음에도 마지막해까지 팀 수비의 중심이라고 느껴었는데 말이죠.