GAME 1: San Antonio Spurs (0-0) vs. Dallas Mavericks (0-0) | 8:30pm CST ESPN!

[ballsrchr]

Hello Wembanyana!

Welcome Cooper Flagg!...to the NBA...

Somebody! Anybody! Please help Kidd and Nico set up a roster that can play together...for a whole game. And maybe add a game plan while you're at it...

Yeah, yeah...I know. First game. The sky isn't falling. No panic here! Bad match up. Etc., etc., etc.

I hope this game was a learning experience for somebody. Anybody!

C'est la vie.

We can still win 81 games...

[RoyTarpleysGhost]

I dont know if I can make a whole season of AD taking isolation long twos.  That can’t be the plan right?

That’s another byproduct of this stupid lineup. AD at 5 and Flagg at 4 is the ideal setup. Lively and PJ backing them up.

[mvossman]

That’s another byproduct of this stupid lineup. AD at 5 and Flagg at 4 is the ideal setup. Lively and PJ backing them up.

I think you can definitely play PJ and Flagg together as long as you only have one center on the court.

[SwisherPrice]

Year 2 of the Klay Experience     

And the D-Lo Experience is going to be a bumpy ride too

[myconsumerclub]

Well the season may as well be switched to tanking right? Only reason to say no is we still have Kyrie coming back. Man the PG situation is total shit at this point I realize vets all came in out of shape thinking Flagg would be the focus and savior so that maybe they interpreted that as they could take some time off and fall out of shape. They knew getting a rookie PG was tanking talk and it would take a year to get him to develop that skill so maybe they all turned their offseason conditioning programs down or to off completely, you know prolong the career by taking way less injury risks. AD looked like trash out there 31.8% FG%. Klay ditto.

Nembhard Max PJ & Lively showed up to play and Cooper had a good quarter. That in all actuality is what I would start and I would tell the vets they get their act together and produce or its retirement time or a trade. This is not a retirement home you come here and play hard or get replaced.

Bench should be AD Gafford Naji Klay and Dlo with Brandon and Hardy in the waiting line for PT. Martin Powell and Exum are guys we need to just get out of here.

If Kyrie shows up January 1st 32 games have been played and 50 games are left there are 16 games in January. by February 1st 48 games are played. 32 games are left. The midpoint of the season where half the games have been played is the end of the 9th game in January.

Ownership needs to talk to Kidd and explain their expectations do not include trying to get a draft pick to learn a new position that he has never played.

There is no excuse for what happened tonight and yes it appears to me San Antonio is going to be a contender this year so we maybe can look back and say we saw the start of their run here tonight. But if they do what Houston did last season and become trouble for everyone we are knocked down the pecking order.

The timeline for Cooper is starting to be the one I want to see more work being concentrated on.

Guess we need to start watching college games to search for younger talent to play and try to hide our vets and maybe we need to tank.

The good news is probably by the end of the season Nico will be gone.

[HoosierDaddyKid]

Looks like working with Hakeem the Dream this off season, has paid off for Wemby. His foot work is phenomenal.

[hakeemfaan]

Wemby is a freak. SA is a legit title contender because they have an alpha playing at a high level. All the signs were there in pre season that he has taken the next step.

For the same reason, the Mavs were not a contender from the very moment they gave up Luka. AD and Kyrie are old and were never alphas even when younger. Klay looks like a fossil. They will still be good but they don’t have what it takes to challenge the big dogs. Copper might become that guy one day but it is too early right now.

The problem always has been that Nico who traded an alpha away from a contender thinking an older lesser player makes the team immediate contenders has to understand that he has to sell assets, hoard picks, and go all in around Flagg’s future. Nico is not capable of that given that he was also trying to trade for Durant also last year. He legit believes these older guys can contend. It is imperative that we get someone in the front office who knows that a rebuild has to start now. Else 5 years down the road we will have nothing but a disgruntled Flagg ready to move out of here.