Do the San Antonio Spurs have more than enough depth?
One of the major (and only?) concerns the San Antonio Spurs face heading into the 2016 season is how they'll deal with disrupted continuity. Gone are trusty bench players like Cory Joseph, Marco Belinelli, Aron Baynes and starting center Tiago Splitter.
Will their replacements pick up Gregg Popovich's system on both ends of the floor? Will they have chemistry with the holdovers from last year's team? Here's a closer look, courtesy of SB Nation's Pounding the Rock:
There are reasons to think San Antonio is the best basketball team in the world, but those reasons butt up against some legitimate question marks.
It'll be interesting to see how Popovich makes all the pieces fit. He has 82 games and a training camp to figure it out.
(h/t: Pounding the Rock)
It gets a bit hairier with the wing rotation. Marco's departure leaves 1388 minutes to redistribute, and a potentially reduced Manu role could mean even more minutes are on the table. But since the Spurs were so much worse with Marco on the floor, Kyle Anderson and Jonathon Simmons just need to not kill the Spurs to make up for Belinelli's performance. Kawhi and Danny already log (relatively) substantial playing time, but if Anderson and Simmons don't pan out, it wouldn't surprise me to see Kawhi or Danny edge closer to 35 minutes a game.
