It just doesn't STOP... - Something big is brewing

You thought it was over but it's not yet. The Spurs continue to make some training camp moves with the season just a few days away. We're still taking some people, waving some people and our newest signing Kendall Brown is going to bolster what is an already stacked Spurs system but we're not ending right there. We also have to look into some of the players how they've been playing so far but most importantly one guy who's been getting the attention of pretty much everyone that is Jacoby Gillespie but not just the fans the coaches and the players as well and a note on Carter Bryant and he says what separates him is one specific aspect of his mentality and when I show you what he said he did over this summer and how he worked on his game he's going to be very very very scary for years to come we're going to dive into all of that and more coming up in this episode of Spurs Digest I'm very excited to get into the Carter Bryant stuff but we got to start out hot as we always do the Spurs make another signing Brian Wright just can't help himself other teams are like finally cluing up their roster the Spurs are sending guys down but No, here we go. Kendall Brown, he signed. This was like a few hours ago. The Spurs have signed Kendall Brown to a training camp contract. Spurs roster back up to 19 players. Reminder, you have 15 standard roster spots. You have three two-way spots, and then you have the other spots. Now, considering the Spurs still have a standard spot open, we have 14 standard spots, three two-ways taken. That's 17, so we still have John Elmore, and now Kendall Brown added to the list of 19 players. Here's Kendall Brown. He played a bit in the summer league there. you can see in july he played a few games with the pacers back but he has a little bit of nba experience the shot is not really the thing that he's known for in transition he's quite solid pretty athletic kind of a three slash four average 16 and five in the g league with 1.2 steals 0.5 blocks which i really don't mind and the spurs are now just again bolstering this unbelievable team in austin i genuinely cannot believe what i'm looking at right now um actually i don't even think this includes Kendall Brown. This does include John Elmore, who is here above David Jones-Garcia, but he really shouldn't be. It doesn't really matter. Once you're past Steph Castle, the two guard doesn't really matter too much anyway. But the thing is, I thought the Spurs would be done all their moves, but they're continuing to do it. And it just shows that there's a lot, a lot, a lot of thought going into this whole team's roster right now. And I include Austin in that because it is really a pipeline. And there's one guy that's trying to break out of there, but before we get into Jacoby Gillespie, the Spurs are ready to do something huge this year. 55 plus wins, I think it's more than possible. $25, nets you 34 on Kalshi. This video is brought to you by Kalshi, where you're trading against other users, not the house, like traditional sportsbooks. You're buying yes or no contracts on real life events, like the weather. It's really rainy where I am right now, like politics, like sports. 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And the one thing that Harrison Barnes had to say about him, I think it just gets me a little more excited than other things. And that's his shooting. Because if you can be a good shooter, man, you can make the NBA roster way easier. Harrison Barnes and Jacoby Gillespie, he can really shoot it. After practice, we do our little shooting games. The first couple of days, I was like, he's shooting that thing a little bit. His confidence has continued to grow. He's going to be a good player. Hey, but it's not just the players. You guys are talking about this in the comments. The Fab 0075. If only the Spurs signed Jacoby for normal contract instead of a two-way contract, I think Jacoby can be so valuable during the playoffs. And here's the thing. This is why we're talking about it, because you can still convert his contract. You can still convert this to a standard contract. Now, a lot of times that doesn't happen until the regular season starts for reasons that I don't fully understand, but you often won't see them converted before the start of the season, so we'd probably have to wait until a couple games in, but it's interesting, right? Like, he's been really good. If Harrison Barnes says you're a good shooter, you're probably a good shooter, and we can take a look in that Jazz game reminder, 25 points with four threes made, and like, so far in camp, he's been kind of rolling. Like, he's been really rolling. So, well, actually, you can't see his stats here, but this is what he, this is where his stats are going to be. That's a holding place for his stats in the future, but I mean, Harrison Barnes, like, We know how good he has been in certain moments. You can see, look, he's not going to be the best defender at this point, not going to get the most rebounds with the team's offensive rating, net rating. Unreal, but he's on the floor. He's a guy that spots up a ton, plays actually well in transition. And if you can learn anything from him, hey, I mean, the shooting does keep you around, even if you're a bit past your prime. So I'm very excited for the next chapter of Jacoby Gillespie. And we also have one more comment I want to show. Gillespie for the final spot, then trade for a good backup center. Keep Reed, remove Cornette. This is Wade Robinson from the last video we did a little poll on what you would do if you were the Spurs and the option, hey you think Gillespie will make that final spot, what do you guys think leave your thoughts on all that down below, final thing though I got to get into our boy Carter Bryant, this guy has been saying all the right things, he is ready for a breakout season and I, I don't know if it's going to result in a most improved player kind of thing I just I don't know if the scoring numbers will be there but that's not what you need, regardless though he's trying, he absolutely is trying, he shot a thousand shots a day, he got that Kobe mentality, now chasing Kobe maybe isn't the best way to say that, but you know still he, he's chasing that mentality using it as fuel and I'll get into what he had to say here, he was having 4 a.m. workouts, his first workout was four in the morning, then he was going at seven, come back home, go back to the workout about three four o'clock and I'll go shoot in the evening. Does that sound like Kobe to you? Now, Kobe's not even close to any of my favorite players of all time. Probably not for most of you guys either. I have a certain disdain towards Kobe Bryant, but what I don't have a disdain for is his insane work ethic. And if you can take one thing from Kobe, this is what I would say it is. I was a Kobe Bryant guy. That's what he had to say when he was talking about his 1000 shots a day that he was taking. 4 a.m. workouts, he said, actually, does the quote even include the fact he said he was shooting a thousand shots a day, it doesn't but he was, he was shooting a thousand shots a day he said when he's in the game he's trying to be a ceiling raiser, I love this floor raiser versus ceiling raiser style thing floor raiser are just these volume scorers whatever ceiling raisers guys you plug them in on any team and they will make them better he said how can i make the group better when i'm on the floor how can i be important how can i be valuable on the defensive end and here at the end of last year the scoring started to climb up just uh just a little bit a couple games now look I know I I know that in the last few games he was getting more run but like this is kind of the example that I think could become the norm whoa one second my camera seemed to think that this won't become the norm for Carter Bryant but I fixed it I am more powerful than the machines so that's the AI they don't want to hear that stuff but the team's defense is just going to be so unbelievable especially if Carter can step up and even get some of these kind of scoring performances I did have one final thing I wanted to say on the team defense though and that's something when Wembanyama had to say people asked him about being the best defender in the world and he said the standard isn't being the best on the planet anymore sort of subtly implying or not so subtly that he is the best defender on the planet and if anyone disagrees with you they are dumb don't say that to their face you can just think it you can silently judge people try not to do it i'm not going to give you life advice say something to him if you want it's being better than last year i mean it is isn't it he is the best on the planet how far can you take that and especially at his age man like Victor Wembanyama now let's just bring up his stats here i'll bring up his playoff stats being better than last year is all you can ask for because if the spurs as a whole are just slightly better than last year just slightly in certain areas especially like maybe in the last two minutes of fourth quarters they're a championship team straight up they're a 60 plus win championship team if they are slightly better than last year and who knows how much better Wemby can get these were the playoff numbers i think you can sort even higher. But what do you guys think? Let us know your thoughts on all that down below. That'll do it, though, for this episode. Thank you for tuning in every single day. I've been your host, Josh Goss, and I will catch you all for the next one.