Despite the entrance of Victor Wembanyama onto the scene, the San Antonio Spurs still finished the season with one of the worst records in the league. They didn’t come anywhere close to postseason basketball, and because of that, Andy Bailey of Bleacher Report, who handed out season grades for every team, gave them a pretty rough mark.
“If the goal was to be bad again, then the San Antonio Spurs can safely proclaim “mission accomplished.” However, there were pretty obvious moves staring them in the face early in the season that would’ve made this a more competitive campaign,” Bailey wrote. “Had Gregg Popovich played Victor Wembanyama more with a traditional point guard, lined him up at center or pulled the plug on the “Jeremy Sochan as lead playmaker” experiment earlier, San Antonio would have won more games.
“Despite having one of the league’s worst overall net ratings, the Spurs were plus-9.0 points per 100 possessions when Wembanyama, Tre Jones and Devin Vassell were all on the floor. But San Antonio didn’t make any of those moves, at least not early enough. And it’s probably fine that it didn’t. Again, another bad record means another high draft pick. And nothing from this season was more important than Wembanyama’s individual play.”
The Spurs are all about the future, and this season may ultimately help prepare them for that, but it certainly was ugly.
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