The Value Of Curtis Jerrells

Good analysis of Jerrells, Wayne. I think it’s going to be a difficult decision to make, with Gee, Gist, Neal, etc.

 What do you think the odds are of us investing in Gary Neal?

This is all kinds of awesome, Wayne. I love the way you analyze this—not just the stone, not just the pond, but all the ripples.

Great post, Wayne. My opinion of Jerrells is changing from game to game. Last game, i was in the “he’s overdribbling” crowd. Today, things seemed to come easier to him. Now, i think i’m in the “hes inconsistent, but he’s young and that will probably get better with time” crowd.

In addition to his pro potential, he’s incredibly valuable for all the reasons you mentioned.

I hate how backed up we are at the guard spot. I guess it’s a good problem to have, but i really enjoy watching Squeaky play. He gambles a lot for steals, and he gets a lot, but he gets burned sometimes too. From what i’ve seen, on offense, he’s a good facillitator who usually makes the right decision. I’ve been really impressed with he defense though. You can tell he’s a very, very smart player. If worst comes to worst, and Tony, Temple, and Hill all get hurt, I’d love to see him have the designated JV role. Get the ball up court, run the offense, play good defense, and hustle, hustle, hustle. I think he could turn out to be better than that, but i think thats the absolute worst he would be in the NBA.

I’ve ranted. apologies.

He might stay with the Toros, but I doubt he gets a roster spot on the Spurs.

He’s a victim of the wrong place at the wrong time. Just too much young talent the Spurs have. Not enough spots, and unfortunately, he’s not a big forward.A new for point guards could of course change if Spurs changed their roster up.

I hope he makes an NBA team eventually. Just don’t see it with the Spurs.

Great post, Wayne. I never really thought of Jerrells or any of the Spurs’ fringe PGs (or any player for that matter) this way.

By the way, Chad Forcier, whoever he is, was pwned by the SB Nation auto-tagger.

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James Gist has a sprained left wrist. Out 1-2 weeks. Won’t play again in Vegas, obviously.

Interesting post, Wayne.

Excuse me, I didn’t know where else to post this, but this is classic!

I love jerrells, not gonna lie. He has caught my eye since he was at our training camp last year

I watched the last 2 mins of the 3rd and the last 7 mins of the 4th.The last 2mins was very fast pace.Teams where exchanging buckets.And I was impressed with one Curtis pass,one Gee pass which didn’t turned into a bucket so as that of Gary Neal’s pass.I like Gee,Neal and Curtis and even Watkins.But having Gary is unlikely since he’s a 6-4 combo guard.Watkins might have a chance.I think Ryan hasn’t signed with us still and if we sign Ryan,still have Curtis and Gee and James Jones(if we sign him),I don’t know how many guys we’ll have.Great SL for us.Btw,when is Blair playing?I really hope he can play at least 1 game for us.

They attempt, in the span of 4-5 games, to assess how good a player is.

Sometimes it is just a fools gold but sometimes SL really does help the players so as teh team if that player deserves a spot.And sometimes,like Hill,first times tastes bitter.

By my count, absolute locks for the roster are Parker, Hill, Ginobili, Hairston, Jefferson, James Anderson, Duncan, Blair, Splitter, Dice, Bonnaroo, and Temple. That’s 12. If we sign James Jones, that puts us at 13. With 4 guys who can run “point” (Used here simply in the very loosest of senses of being able to get the ball up and put us into our offense. As Wayne said earlier, Parker is our only true PG, and I’ll go one step further and say that none of the Spurs guards are classic PGs in the Steve Nash, J. Kidd mold, don’t know if it’s part of the Spurs philosophy, or that’s just who we’ve found in the draft, but we seem to be all about the scoring pg’s) in Parker, Hill, Ginobili, and Temple (at least for a little bit in the regular season). So yeah, I like Jerrells, but I just don’t see him making it. In my ideal world, the last two spots would go to Gee and then the closest thing we could find to a 2011 edition of Kevin Willis. Mainly because I like to watch guys dutifully put their elbow pads on before checking in.

havent had the chance to follow live, but I have all the games DVRed and I actually made it thru the first win over the Minne summer team, so my opinions of Curtis Jerrels are limited to my knowledge of him from Baylor and what I have seen so far. this year, that entials just one game – so if has gone nuts in the last two Summer League games, then I might consider revising this opinion. disclaimer over.

All the rest is just off the top of my head opinion.

To me, CJ is a guy who is a little sloppy with the handle, but has the ability to make the right pass – sometimes even the great pass. he’s a guy who will jack shots without feeling guilty. the problem with this is that he had enough athletic ability to get himself open all the time in college. less so on the summer league/pro level. he is the kind of guy that can score in bunches, but his game is better suited to the #2 position. the hired gun kind of guy who hits the floor in the second period jacking shots with the hopes of getting hot and going for 23. the bad news about this is that his size pretty much precludes him of playing that role in the NBA.

as i have said a number of times on this site, i love me some of those Baylor guys from the last 2-3 years and Jerrels is the face of that team. as much as i want to see him make it with the Spurs, I just dont see it unless there is some other movement at the PG position. i’m rooting for the guy, but he seems destined for Austin – or another team if he can find the right spot.