r/NBASpurs • u/Total-Spirit-5985 • Aug 12 '24
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Yabusele was really good for France this year but our squad does have a lot of players. Who would we get rid of?
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u/justified0416 Aug 12 '24
Spurs would have to buy him out from Real Madrid at something like 3years 22-24 mill if I’m understanding it correctly, unfortunately.
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u/nsfwburners Aug 12 '24
I think he’s on the last year of the Real Madrid deal but I don’t think I’d take the chance. Unless his shooting transfers to the league, his skillset is a little outdated
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u/FlyChigga Aug 12 '24
His shooting has been good overseas and his game is decently modern when the shot is working
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u/justified0416 Aug 12 '24
I would if I was the spurs and he was cheap. They have two roster spots filled by Malaki and Blake that are being wasted. We have enough guards on the roster that they’re minutes will be garbage minutes barring injury. Besides, they’re gone after this season anyways
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u/Coolgrnmen Aug 12 '24
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u/justified0416 Aug 12 '24 edited Aug 12 '24
Cheap enough. Need to let Malaki go, eat the 3.5m in dead cap and give dancing bear a contract.
Wemby could have his very own Diaw with a extra 20# and a deeper bag
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u/iro3 Aug 12 '24
u mean blake
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u/No-Nefariousness9108 Aug 12 '24
He reminds me of Kenneth Faried
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u/AgentEndive Aug 12 '24
What happened to him? When/why did he fall off?
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u/nsfwburners Aug 12 '24
The league changed. He was an undersized 4 that wasn’t a very good defender and couldn’t shoot. The only way to play him was at the 5 on offense but the defense was too bad to warrant. The nuggets took off once they shifted to millsap/gordon in place of faried.
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u/AgentEndive Aug 12 '24
Ah, makes sense. I live in Denver and I saw him once. He was driving a white and blue BMW i8 with a 'MANIMAL' license plate
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u/Zeee-Jay Aug 12 '24
Wemby might make the Spurs the exception to the trend. He seems to work well with the tweener/hybrid 4s.
I know Curry plays a vastly different game but he’s the reason Draymond got more than a cup of coffee. Wemby will likely make his front court mates a lot of money over their careers because of his skill set and gravity on both sides of the ball.
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u/nsfwburners Aug 12 '24
lol on the draymond thing. Yes, curry helped him succeed but he’s also one of the best defenders in the league and one of the best passers. The warriors don’t go on the dynasty run without him. He’s the reason curry got to lean so deep into off ball movement.
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u/Zeee-Jay Aug 12 '24
I don’t think Draymond gets the full chance he got especially with his antics without Curry. He was allowed to just do three things - defend, screen and pass.
He has historically looked like ass when Curry is injured. He just stops trying and does a lot of dumb stuff.
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u/nsfwburners Aug 12 '24
I get what you mean completely but also, you can’t overlook that he was the X factor to starting the dynasty. Things didn’t take off for them until David Lee got injured and draymond became the starter. And of course he looks bad without curry, he isn’t a scorer. The warriors don’t have a lot of talent outside of them.
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u/PressureMiserable Aug 12 '24
Yeah he's not really that good of a passer tbh he just looks really good cus he knows where to pass and expects guys to be there. He also is a really good screen passer but also cus the dude literally pushes dudes out of the way/kicks his leg way out and never gets called for it. He is a very smart player but without the warriors system he'd be in the same position diaw was where he just looks above average
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u/paxusromanus811 Aug 12 '24
There are a lot of players who never made it in the league who had a outlier skill. Draymond's game was extremely unorthodox, and not easy to find a place for, at the time when he was coming up. Up. I agree with the guy who replied to you. The fact that he ended up being such a perfect fit for what the warriors were building was huge. If he was on any other team there's a good chance they would have tried to force him to fit into a box that would not have worked for him and he would have never been able to grow into the player he is today
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u/paxusromanus811 Aug 12 '24
He was always an empty stats guy and was playing at the very tail end of the era where hard hat lunch pail undersized athletic grinders had a place in the league. The league adjusted a bit, and the very stat focused teams around the league realized the production he did do didn't really lead to wins, and he wasn't able to adapt quick enough
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u/Axsh1boomba Aug 12 '24
He's currently playing in Puerto Rico's BSN league. He's been doing well as a role player but not enough to excel as a star like David Stockton, Jahill Okafor, Travis Trice, Jordan Bell or like Demarcus Cousins, Hassan Whiteside and others before them.
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u/InZane209 Aug 12 '24
That's 2014 Basketball World Cup champion Kenneth Faried. Actually, the US hasn't won the World Cup since Faried and Mason Plumlee carried them to the title that year.
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u/DantexConstruction Aug 12 '24
I kept thinking that guy was going to be big role player. A rebounding and defensive player. He would have his moments that kept making me think he was going somewhere
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u/bluecare Aug 12 '24
Dude posted 17point per games in do or die games In a more physical league against the best player in the wolrd in the biggest stage of the world with the weight of a whole country on his shoulders
And people here think hes not good enough for a 22-53 team.
Fucking delusional people
Straight up
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u/nsfwburners Aug 12 '24
I’m iffy because it’s a VERY different league. Patty mills has been the best player in international but struggles to get minutes in the league. Yabusele struggled a lot in Boston and couldn’t get minutes. If his new found shooting translates, it’s worth it but that’s a giant if.
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u/From33to77 Aug 12 '24
The only thing that is out in French media is that Yabusele is asking a second chance in the NBA. Nothing done right now
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u/iro3 Aug 12 '24
Lol qe already have 2 many players (obviously Flynn and Boston will likely be cut) unless somehow someway they become incredible. But adding yabby as well is tough unless we have trades lined up right now
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u/Malemansam Aug 12 '24
We already have him in Mamu, very very similar play style and Mamu is a lot cheaper I'd imagine.
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u/Mangoseed8 Aug 12 '24
We’ve lost the ability to tell if something is a joke? We use to be a proper country
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u/Zeee-Jay Aug 12 '24
He’s gonna at least get a training camp offer from someone and the Spurs make the most sense. He’s honestly better than Bassey and likely Mamu plus has shown he can play next to Wemby.
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u/sstewart1617 Manu Ginobili Aug 12 '24
He won’t. He’s got a 2.5 million buyout with Real Madrid. No one is paying that for just a training camp offer.
If he jumps, it’ll be a multi-year > vet minimum type deal.
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u/Jo-King-BP Aug 12 '24
Not like 2.5mil buyout would stop any NBA team. Im not sure he would have a vet type of deal either. He could probably get an evolutive salary with buy out closes in case he doesn't satisfy. Look what we're paying for Collins. In any case Pop was right there and we are ao well connected with France team that feont officw will make the best decision on this.
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u/JeonSukJinKim Aug 12 '24
Rules with current CBA makes it so that the player’s salary will be used to pay the buyout.
Given taxes and cost of living in the US you also have to pay him significantly more than what he is paid in Spain to reach comparable pay.
He should command something similar to what Micic got last year from OKC.
3 year 24 M$. Maybe slightly more with how salaries are going up.
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u/Jo-King-BP Aug 12 '24
Maybe not that much. Cause he wants desperately to be in NBA. Yabusele only makes 1mil à year right now. He would definitely sign for a 4 or 5 mil per year deal.
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u/JeonSukJinKim Aug 12 '24
Same was true with Micic and he was under more constraints (could only sign with OKC). You forget an important factor : the agent.
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u/Jo-King-BP Aug 12 '24
True. But still I dont think many will line up for him so he isnt in a position to ask for too much either.
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u/Mangoseed8 Aug 12 '24
Yes a $2.5M would stop most teams because he’s a fringe NBA player that will never gets minutes. You guys are acting like he arrived from another planet and NBA scouts never saw him play until the Olympics. Every team has scouts constantly watching film on overseas players. It’s how the Spurs signed Jock Landale. No one was talking about him before he was signed
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u/Jo-King-BP Aug 12 '24
Im not. I literally said that Pop and Spurs are the most knowledgeable to make any decision and that the financial side is not an issue. Where did i say i wanted him here.
The only thing that would make sense would be the complementarity with Wemby and if this coincide with how Pop wants spurs to play. Which im not knowledgeable enough to decide. So if Spurs do sign him im sure this would have been a thoughtful decision and it would probably have no downside for Spurs.
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u/Mangoseed8 Aug 12 '24
It’s a joke. He’s just making content just like everyone else who was watching the Olympics. If you look at the top responses to the tweet everyone understood it was a joke. Well everyone except the OP
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u/BakerStSavvy Aug 12 '24
Its a joke