By Jeje Gomez, Marilyn Dubinski, Mark Barrington, Jacob Douglas | Pounding The Rock (PtR), 2025-04-01 10:57:36
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即使马刺队无法得到库珀·弗拉格，但这并不意味着他们不能在即将到来的选秀中得到一两个好的建队基石。
库珀·弗拉格(Cooper Flagg) 在NCAA锦标赛中表现出色，带领杜克大学进入四强，并巩固了自己状元的位置。如果圣安东尼奥在乐透抽签中运气不佳，你愿意交易多少资产/现有球员来换取他？
玛丽莲·杜宾斯基(Marilyn Dubinski): 去年没有明确的状元秀，所以还有讨论交易选秀权（甚至是状元签）的空间。今年不是这种情况。虽然库珀·弗拉格不是维克多·文班亚马，但他显然是状元人选，有潜力成为球队的特权球员，而赢得乐透的球队不会轻易放弃。马刺队可以尝试提供一些年轻核心球员（德文·瓦塞尔，凯尔登·约翰逊，斯蒂芬·卡斯尔等）加上他们自己的和亚特兰大的2025年选秀权（以及未来可能更多的选秀权），但现在看来这两者都不太可能进入前7名，而且没有文班包括在内，我不认为赢得乐透的球队会同意。这将是浪费一个电话，就像2023年任何询问从马刺队获得状元签的人一样。
马克·巴林顿(Mark Barrington): 这似乎是一个毫无意义的假设，因为获得状元签的球队不会交易它。我想你可以提供像 赫歇尔·沃克交易 那样的交易，但即使你能做到，也不可能在NBA工资帽下实现。除非马刺队给他们维克多·文班亚马，否则任何拥有第一顺位选秀权的人都不会放弃它，否则圣安东尼奥将会爆发冲突。
雅各布·道格拉斯(Jacob Douglas): 除了包括文班亚马的交易方案外，没有其他方案足以换取弗拉格。如果选择第一顺位的球队真的愿意谈论交易，那么除了文班亚马和达龙·福克斯之外，每一个选秀权和球员都将被摆上谈判桌。
耶稣·戈麦斯(Jesus Gomez): 没有人会交易弗拉格，但想象一下马刺队可能需要放弃什么才能得到一位新秀合同的年轻超级巨星很有趣。首先，是今年的两个选秀权，加上剩余的亚特兰大选秀权。再加上一两个未来的马刺选秀权和斯蒂芬·卡斯尔，就能让对方至少不会立即挂断电话。这值得吗？可能值得，但把所有的鸡蛋放在同一个篮子里是有风险的。
你一直在关注锦标赛吗？有没有哪位球员让你觉得是马刺队可以用首轮选秀权选择的潜在黑马？
杜宾斯基: 我只对我的母校感兴趣，所以当他们在第二轮出局时我就不看了。（当我对比赛没有归属感时，我也觉得大学篮球很难看：20分钟的半场，所有的暂停，糟糕的裁判——他们在过去十年里唯一做对的事情就是将男子进攻时间从35秒降到30秒。）我确实觉得马刺队需要解决他们缺乏身高和/或外线投篮的问题，所以我希望他们在摆脱选择“有防守潜力”的中等身材后卫的常态时做到这一点。（并不是说这是一个问题，他们只是已经有很多这种球员了。）
巴林顿: 不好意思，当我关心的所有球队都在第一轮和第二轮被淘汰时，我就提前退出了。反正我不太关注大学篮球，当最喜欢的球队被淘汰后，我就会退出，直到四强周末。虽然他在锦标赛中表现不佳，但我真的很喜欢来自德克萨斯大学的特雷·约翰逊，但他可能会在马刺队选秀前就被选走了。
道格拉斯: 科恩·克纽佩尔(Kon Knueppel) 看起来像一个名副其实的射手和无球后卫，而且身材高大。他在杜克大学的优秀体系中很好地完成了防守任务。把他和福克斯和文班搭配会很有趣。科罗拉多州立大学的尼克·克利福德(Nique Clifford) 是一个很有趣的侧翼球员，可以承担一些组织进攻的责任。来自德克萨斯大学的特雷·约翰逊很棒，但在NCAA锦标赛中没有机会做太多事情。如果马刺队进入首轮末段或次轮初段，来自奥本大学的约翰尼·布鲁姆(Johni Broome) 和佛罗里达大学的沃尔特·克莱顿(Walter Clayton Jr.) 都是经验丰富的大学明星，我相信他们会在下一级别联赛中成为出色的角色球员。鉴于马刺队需要一名替补中锋，布鲁姆尤其适合。
戈麦斯: 我看FIBA篮球比赛比大学篮球比赛多，所以我没有一个好的答案。我看过科恩·克纽佩尔打球，他看起来像一个有趣的高个射手，也能控球。我主要看埃戈尔·德明(Egor Demin) 的精彩片段，他看起来像一个特别的天才，但投篮数据有点吓人。如果他掉到后面并且马刺队追求上限，他可能值得冒险。
真或假：在这一点上，马刺队不应该关注NCAA锦标赛或选秀。他们应该考虑用选秀权换取老将。
杜宾斯基: 假。忽视休赛期/球队建设过程的任何一个方面都是错误的。他们下赛季的目标应该是进入季后赛（而且我相信如果文班健康的话，他们至少会进入附加赛），他们应该尽一切努力实现这一目标，同时不要为了仅仅一两年的帮助而放弃太多的年轻核心（这就是我对凯文·杜兰特传闻说不）。我完全赞成他们可能打包他们的两个首轮选秀权，也许再加上一个中等水平的球员，以换取更高的选秀权和/或更年轻的老将，但他们不能仅仅因为他们会得到他们想要的交易而忽视选秀。此外，他们未来还需要那些更便宜的新秀合同。
巴林顿: 假，某种程度上。他们需要增加一到两名老将球员，但他们也需要有用的、拥有实惠新秀合同的球员。如果他们可以通过选秀权引进另一位优秀的得分手和空间型球员，那将是太棒了。但是阵容中有很多漏洞，所以他们需要尽可能多地用选秀球员来填补阵容。
道格拉斯: 假。马刺队仍然处于人才获取模式，无论这通过选秀、交易还是自由球员市场。他们仍然需要在文班亚马周围建立长期核心。他们利用了福克斯交易中的有利局面，并且似乎得到了斯蒂芬·卡斯尔这位长期拼图。今年夏天，他们可以选秀下一个长期拼图，或者交易选秀权来换取文班旁边的球星球员。管理层应该，而且很可能正在考虑所有改善阵容的途径。
戈麦斯: 假。布雷克·韦斯利和马拉基·布兰纳姆将进入他们新秀合同的最后一年。 杰里米·索汉也将如此。 朱利安·尚帕尼只有一年的球队友好合同了。 一些成本可控的球员很快就会离开，所以即使他们没有得到球星，他们也可以得到一个重要的球员，让围绕文班建队更容易。 圣安东尼奥需要人才，而选秀是获得人才的好方法，但即使从工资帽管理和阵容构建的角度来看，获得一些廉价的深度球员也是有道理的。
点击查看原文：Looking for future Spurs in the NCAA Tournament
Looking for future Spurs in the NCAA Tournament
The Spurs might not be able to land Cooper Flagg, but that doesn’t mean they can’t get a good building block or two in the upcoming draft.
Cooper Flagg has impressed in the NCAA Tournament, gotten Duke into the Final Four, and solidified himself as the top pick. How many assets/current players would you be willing to trade for him if San Antonio doesn’t get lucky in the lottery?
Marilyn Dubinski: When there was no clearly defined top prospect last year, there was room to talk about swapping picks as high as number one. This is not one of those years. While Cooper Flagg is no Victor Wembanyama, he is clearly the top pick with the potential to be a franchise player, and teams who win the lottery don’t just give that away. The Spurs could try to offer a few pieces of their young core (Devin Vassell, Keldon Johnson, Stephon Castle, etc.) plus their own and Atlanta’s 2025 draft picks (and likely many more in the future), but neither figure to be in the top 7 at this point, and without Wemby included, I don’t see the team that wins the lottery saying yes. It would be a waste of a phone call, just like it was for anyone inquiring about getting the top pick from the Spurs in 2023.
Mark Barrington: It kind of seems like a meaningless hypothetical, because the team that gets the top pick isn’t going to trade it. I guess you could offer something like the Herschel Walker trade, but even if you could pull that off, there’s no way that could work with the NBA salary cap. There’s just no way that whoever has the first pick is going to give it up unless the Spurs give them Victor Wembanyama, which would cause violence to erupt in San Antonio.
Jacob Douglas: There is no package great enough for Flagg except one that includes Wembanyama. If the team selecting first overall was actually willing to talk trades, every pick and player would be on the table besides Wembanyama and De’Aaron Fox.
Jesus Gomez: No one is trading Flagg, but it’s interesting to imagine what the Spurs would likely have to give up for a young superstar in a rookie deal. To start, the two picks from this year’s draft, plus the remaining Atlanta picks. That, plus one or two future Spurs picks and Stephon Castle would get the other team to at least not hang up immediately. Would it be worth it? Probably, but it would be risky to put all the eggs in the same basket.
Have you been following the tournament? Has any player stood out to you as a potential sleeper pick for the Spurs with either of their first-rounders?
Dubinski: I’m only interested in my alma mater, so I was done once they were out in the second round. (I also find college basketball very difficult to enjoy when I don’t have rooting interest: the 20-min halves, all the timeouts, the horrid officiating — the only thing they’ve done right in the last decade is lower the men’s shot clock from 35 to 30 sec.) I do feel the Spurs need to address their lack of size and/or outside shooting, so I’m hoping they do that while breaking away from the norm of going for mid-sized guards with “defensive potential”. (Not that that’s an issue, they just have enough of those at this point.)
Barrington: Sorry, I kind of checked out early when all the teams I care about got knocked out in the first and second rounds. I’m not a big follower of college basketball, anyway, and when my favorite teams are eliminated, I’m out until the final four weekend. Although he didn’t do great in the tournament, I really like Tre Johnson from Texas, but he’s probably going to be gone by the time the Spurs pick.
Douglas: Kon Knueppel looks like a legit floor spacer and off-ball guard with size. He’s held his own defensively in a good system at Duke. Pairing him with Fox and Wemby would be a lot of fun. Colorado State’s Nique Clifford is an intriguing wing who can handle some playmaking responsibilities. Tre Johnson from Texas is awesome but didn’t get the opportunity to do much in the NCAA Tournament. If the Spurs were to get into the late first round or early second, Johni Broome from Auburn and Florida’s Walter Clayton Jr. are veteran college stars who I believe will be awesome role players at the next level. Broome would especially be a good fit given the Spurs’ need for a backup center.
Gomez: I watch more FIBA ball than college basketball, so I don’t have a great answer. I’ve watched Kon Knueppel play, and he seems intriguing as a shooter with size who can also handle the ball. I mostly watched Egor Demin highlights, and he looked like a special talent, but the shooting numbers are a little scary. He might be worth the risk if he drops and the Spurs go for upside.
True or false: At this point, the Spurs shouldn’t be focusing on the NCAA Tournament or the draft. They should be thinking about moving their picks for veterans.
Dubinski: False. Ignoring any aspect of the offseason/team building process would be a mistake. Their goal next season should be to make the playoffs (and I believe they would have at least made the play-in this season had Wemby been healthy), and they should do whatever it takes to get there while also not giving up too much of the young core for just a year or two of help (this is me saying no to the Kevin Durant rumors). I would be all for them possibly packaging their two first round picks and maybe a mid-tier player for a higher pick and/or younger veteran, but they can’t just ignore the draft assuming they’ll get the deal they want. Plus, they’ll need those cheaper rookie contracts going forward.
Barrington: False, sort of. They need to add an additional veteran player or two, but they will also need useful players on affordable rookie contracts. If they can bring in another big time scorer and floor spacer with draft picks, that would be awesome. But there are a lot of holes in the roster, so they’ll need to fill out the roster with drafted players as much as they can.
Douglas: False. The Spurs are still in talent acquisition mode, whether that be via the draft, trade, or free agency. They still need to build the long-term core around Wembanyama. They took advantage of a good situation in the Fox trade and seemingly landed a long-term piece in Castle. This summer, they could draft the next long-term piece or trade picks for the star player next to Wemby. The front office should be, and likely is, considering all avenues to improve the roster.
Gomez: False. Blake Wesley and Malaki Branham will enter the last year of their rookie contract. So will Jeremy Sochan. Julian Champagnie only has one more year on his team-friendly deal. Some of the cost-controlled players will be gone soon, so even if they don’t get a star, they could get an important piece that makes building around Wemby easier. San Antonio needs talent, and the draft is a good way to get it, but even from a cap management and roster construction standpoint, it just makes sense to get some cheap depth pieces.
By Jeje Gomez, Marilyn Dubinski, Mark Barrington, Jacob Douglas, via Pounding The Rock