On this episode of Locked On Spurs, host Jeff Garcia welcomes KENS 5’s Casey Viera to discuss how much the San Antonio Spurs will load-manage Victor Wembanyama and the ripple effects.
Also, are Tre Jones’ days as a Spur over?
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GEORGE ICEMAN GERVIN IS THE GREATEST EVER I LOVE YOU ICEMAN 50 YEARS
Why is there so much hemming and hawing over Tre Jones's role? The template was already set by his brother — he can be one of the best BACKUP PGs in the entire league — just like his brother. You keep Jones, on a cheap contract, and you let him come off the bench. Wemby, Sochan, Vassell are all going to get reps running plays and whoever they bring in to handle the PG. It's an easy fix, Jeff, don't overthink it.
I totally don't agree with resting him,he's 19 with alot of energy, we tanked to get him,so why load manage him
Get Kai Sotto. We need more long limbed aliens in this landscape where you're not allowed to play regular defense!!!
Come on guys. It's well-known, seriously the commissioner sent out a memo for teams NOT TO SAY who they were drafting ie with LeBron they had his Jersey with name on it.
The running joke was the different media outlets trying to get Brian Wright to say, Wemby smh really???
Ya Ma
Pg Fred van vleet
hey jeff – the transformers audio cut is incredibly jarring for folks with sensitive hearing, migraine triggering for me. fan of your show, just wish i could enjoy it without being on edge
I could see them resting him more for road games
So that way the Spurs fans can see him play more at home
Great Spurs talk just don’t like the ad transitions
Oh my god they’re already talking about “load management”?! This is ridiculous. Can we draft him first? God damn.
Even if we bring in a more established point guard, we must re-sign Tray Jones.
Freeze Victor between games and thaw him out only to ball out. The Iceman 2.0
The fact that we’re even thinking about load managing Wemba even before he start his career should raise a pretty big red flag.
I think all the hype has blind the obvious fact that there are no NBA player of his stick figure like frame who has a long lasting career in recent memory
Wemby should come out and say he doesn’t want to play for the Spurs and Pop.
PETITION:
I know that they're trying to push the "Alien" nickname on Victor. I say we Spurs fans decide that. What say y'all we call him Victor "ET" Wembanyama. Short for "Eiffel Tower"
Now that you mentioned that it is good to get someone who knows the system, do you think it is good to bring back Patty Mills?
WEMBY is going to be used as DEFENSE player….this team is going to be DEFENSE again..which will be cool..bc it's super hard to play defense these days.
Long time Spurs fan here. Everyone needs to understand that Victor is NOT a big. He will play a SF role like KD. Everyone is worried that Victor needs to gain weight or muscle. Victor plays like a guard. The Spurs will have big men to handle to big bodies of the NBA but it won’t be Victor.
He needs THE SAME TRAINER , Giannis had
We should definitely keep tanking one more season. This season must be one of adaptation, development and physical strengthening for Wemby. No unnecessary pressure for him. With a couple of high picks in the next draft, our team will improve. For the 2024 draft we have Raptors First-Round Pick (Top-Six Protected). Tanking, and with a bit of luck, we could have two top ten picks that will no doubt grow around Vic. In 2025 we have the first round pick of the Hawks (who are probably a bad team then), ours and one of the top 10 protected Bulls. Truly, the future is bright. You have to take the development of Wemby very calmly; with patience and discipline is the only way Wemby will become what we all dream of. GSG!
I think we should keep Tre and see if we can land Reaves, DiVincenzo, Hart, Yurtseven, or bring back Poeltl if the price is right.
Trading the key young guys from this year would send a bad message to the players, and would not be a 'Spurs Way' of doing business.
Wemby should not go near 30mpg his first year. He should start and finish games that are close. If Wemby has to sit a game out, then So be it. He can still have a huge impact this season at 20-24mpg.
Nba players forward and center if you won't to be great watch Hakeem and tim duncan foot work and being physical what did the jokic say is he watch tim duncan and now look at him already a all time great player
I'm going to load-manage myself from here on out at age 47
I absolutely don't understand some Spurs fans' desire to trade Keldon or Tre right now – both of them are still young, improved a lot this season and we have absolutely 0 idea how high their ceiling will likely be or how well they'll play alongside Wemby. Why not give our exciting young core at least 1 more season (their first with Wemby) before deciding who will likely start alongside him and where we'll actually need veterans to plug holes ? As for trading Keldon (which is what I see suggested pretty much daily on the Spurs subreddit and in videos) – let's not forget that we'll need more than 5 actually good players to content for a championship. If Keldon is our 6th or 7th best player on the roster, that's a 'luxury' that we're going to need to content. Trading Keldon now for a pick that might turn out to be – omg, as good as Keldon Johnson ! – makes 0 sense. It's not as if Keldon was in his mid 30s, he's barely 23,5 years old atm.