Thursday, November 7, 2019

Reality Check: Is this as good as we get?

A lot of things arguably started going awry when Kawhi Leonard forced his way out of San Antonio two seasons ago. I don't really want to rehash the whole issue with Kawhi and his uncle, but there was a pointed shift in the Spurs' on-court identity when, in an attempt to recoup something from Kawhi wanting out, Kawhi and Danny Green for DeMar DeRozan and Jakob Poeltl. While I appreciate what DeMar and Jakob bring to the floor we have to be honest and say we didn't get equal value back for that trade, we got what we could. However, also in that year we swapped out Kyle Anderson for Marco Belinelli and the Spurs vaunted offense took a major hit.