Having spent seven years there and winning an NBA championship title in 2014, we can say that Danny Green knows home Spurs well. As a result, the scoring back was in turn called upon to speak about the arrival of Victor Wembanyama and his adaptation to NBA basketball.
For him, “Wemby” could not arrive in a better environment, knowing that Gregg Popovich is still in place, and that the Frenchman will be able to be guided by other legends of the franchise, including two other French players with whom he won the Grail in 2014.
“I think it’s the perfect place for him to become a professional player”he confided in the podcast “No Chill with Gilbert Arenas”. “Tony Parker is there to help him, Boris Diaw also played there, there are many French people who have gone through the organization who will be able to help him, guide him and teach him to be a professional and not to consider that it is acquired. They’re going to watch his body the right way, they’re not going to overwork him. So my advice is to take advantage of it, to accept all that. You have Tim Duncan by your side, David Robinson, all those great players, Hall of Famers, and a city that’s gonna love you. So my advice is just, ‘Enjoy the course, young man. Do what you know how to do. See where you can take them’. »
Gregg Popovich, the guarantor of success
Since his departure in 2018, the Spurs have however tumbled in the hierarchy in the West, to arrive at the last place in the Western conference last season and a fourth year in a row without the playoffs.
It will therefore take some time to restart the machine, even if for Danny Green, the most important thing remains the presence of Gregg Popovich as guarantor of the DNA of champion of the Texas franchise.
“Of course, it will take a few years. It’s hard to make predictions for most players in general. Even superstars, you never know what turn a career will take, what health problem may arise. He has potential like a lot of guys have potential. But he’s in a position where they’re going to surround him with the right elements to give him the opportunity to get there.”.
According to Danny Green, it will take three years in San Antonio to be able to again build a team able to rub shoulders with the candidates for the title.
“I would say it could take three years. They will always find the right people who will then become the right players. Because Pop doesn’t care about ego issues. As long as Pop and RC (Buford) are around, they’ll have guys with great personalities. Because if that doesn’t do the trick, you won’t stay long (…). I think in three years, he will have the support he needs to be able to go to the playoffs and be able to do something there. Today, many of the best teams are starting to age. Whether it’s Milwaukee, Golden State, the Lakers, even if there are good foundations. And there are the smaller teams that are going up, like Memphis, New Orleans, OKC… And I think San Antonio can be one of the teams on the upswing with these young teams.”
| Shots | Bounces | |||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Players | GM | Minimum | Shots | 3 points | LF | Off | Def | Early | pd | bp | Int | CT | party | Points |
| Keldon Johnson | 63 | 32.7 | 45.2 | 32.9 | 74.9 | 0.9 | 4.2 | 5.0 | 2.9 | 2.1 | 0.7 | 0.2 | 2.0 | 22.0 |
| Devin Vasell | 38 | 31.0 | 43.9 | 38.7 | 78.0 | 0.2 | 3.7 | 3.9 | 3.6 | 1.5 | 1.1 | 0.4 | 1.5 | 18.5 |
| Devonte Graham | 20 | 26.4 | 38.0 | 35.8 | 75.0 | 0.4 | 2.2 | 2.5 | 4.0 | 1.3 | 0.8 | 0.3 | 1.6 | 13.0 |
| Tre Jones | 68 | 29.2 | 45.9 | 28.5 | 86.0 | 0.8 | 2.8 | 3.6 | 6.6 | 1.6 | 1.3 | 0.1 | 1.4 | 12.9 |
| Jakob Poeltl | 46 | 26.1 | 61.6 | 0.0 | 60.5 | 3.3 | 5.7 | 9.0 | 3.1 | 2.1 | 0.8 | 1.1 | 2.6 | 12.1 |
| Zach Collins | 63 | 22.9 | 51.8 | 37.4 | 76.1 | 1.8 | 4.5 | 6.4 | 2.9 | 2.0 | 0.6 | 0.8 | 3.2 | 11.6 |
| Josh Richardson | 42 | 23.8 | 43.6 | 35.7 | 88.3 | 0.7 | 2.1 | 2.8 | 3.3 | 1.5 | 1.0 | 0.3 | 1.7 | 11.5 |
| Julian Champagnie | 15 | 20.9 | 46.1 | 40.7 | 82.4 | 0.7 | 3.3 | 4.0 | 0.7 | 0.7 | 0.3 | 0.3 | 1.7 | 11.0 |
| Jeremy Sochan | 56 | 26.0 | 45.3 | 24.6 | 69.8 | 1.7 | 3.6 | 5.3 | 2.5 | 1.7 | 0.8 | 0.4 | 2.5 | 11.0 |
| Sandro Mamukelashvili | 19 | 23.3 | 45.3 | 34.3 | 69.2 | 2.7 | 4.1 | 6.8 | 2.4 | 1.4 | 0.5 | 0.4 | 1.7 | 10.8 |
| Doug Mcdermott | 64 | 20.5 | 45.7 | 41.3 | 75.7 | 0.4 | 1.8 | 2.2 | 1.4 | 0.9 | 0.2 | 0.1 | 1.8 | 10.2 |
| Malaki Branham | 66 | 23.5 | 44.0 | 30.2 | 82.9 | 0.4 | 2.3 | 2.7 | 1.9 | 1.2 | 0.5 | 0.1 | 1.7 | 10.2 |
| Keita Bates-diop | 67 | 21.7 | 50.8 | 39.4 | 79.3 | 1.0 | 2.7 | 3.7 | 1.5 | 0.8 | 0.7 | 0.3 | 0.9 | 9.7 |
| Joshua Primo | 4 | 23.3 | 34.6 | 25.0 | 77.8 | 0.5 | 2.8 | 3.3 | 4.5 | 2.8 | 0.3 | 0.5 | 2.0 | 7.0 |
| Romeo Langford | 43 | 19.6 | 46.7 | 26.2 | 69.6 | 1.3 | 1.3 | 2.7 | 1.2 | 0.7 | 0.6 | 0.3 | 1.6 | 6.9 |
| Stanley Johnson | 30 | 15.6 | 53.3 | 45.0 | 66.7 | 0.7 | 2.4 | 3.2 | 2.2 | 1.1 | 0.5 | 0.2 | 1.6 | 5.8 |
| Charles Bassey | 35 | 14.5 | 64.4 | 37.5 | 59.5 | 2.1 | 3.4 | 5.5 | 1.3 | 1.2 | 0.5 | 0.9 | 2.1 | 5.7 |
| Blake Wesley | 37 | 18.1 | 32.1 | 38.5 | 59.1 | 0.3 | 1.9 | 2.2 | 2.7 | 1.8 | 0.7 | 0.1 | 1.8 | 5.0 |
| Isaiah Roby | 42 | 11.3 | 43.2 | 30.0 | 48.8 | 0.5 | 2.0 | 2.5 | 0.9 | 0.7 | 0.4 | 0.2 | 1.3 | 4.1 |
| Dominick Barlow | 28 | 14.6 | 53.5 | 0.0 | 72.0 | 1.6 | 2.0 | 3.6 | 0.9 | 0.5 | 0.4 | 0.7 | 2.0 | 3.9 |
| Gorgui Dieng | 31 | 11.6 | 38.5 | 28.0 | 76.9 | 0.9 | 2.6 | 3.5 | 1.7 | 1.0 | 0.1 | 0.5 | 1.8 | 3.9 |
| Jordan Hall | 9 | 9.1 | 32.1 | 20.0 | 77.8 | 0.3 | 1.0 | 1.3 | 1.2 | 0.8 | 0.1 | 0.0 | 0.7 | 3.1 |
| Alize Johnson | 4 | 7.4 | 50.0 | 0.0 | 50.0 | 0.5 | 2.0 | 2.5 | 0.3 | 1.0 | 0.3 | 0.0 | 0.8 | 1.8 |
