Will anybody on the Spurs have a 'break out' season?
The San Antonio Spurs are the NBA's steadiest ship. There's not a whole lot of variation from year to year. Only greatness.
But this season their roster has a few players on it who could surprise some people in an expanded role. One candidate is sophomore Kyle Anderson, who didn't have that great of a rookie year but won MVP honors at Las Vegas Summer League on that tournament's champion.
Here's what SB Nation's Pounding the Rock has to say about Anderson's chances of having a tremendous second season:
This is clearly an uphill battle. The Spurs don't need anyone to "break out" and become a star. They already have Tim Duncan, LaMarcus Aldridge, Kawhi Leonard, Tony Parker and a bunch of complimentary players who understand their role and excel in it.
That's all San Antonio needs from Anderson. Someone who can come in when Leonard needs to rest and not totally embarrass himself. He should be fine.
(h/t: Pounding the Rock)
Kyle Anderson would seem to be the most logical candidate. He's only 21 and was recently awarded MVP of the Las Vegas Summer League after leading the Spurs to a championship in that tournament. A former first-round pick, Anderson didn't play much for the Spurs but starred for their D-League affiliate in Austin, earning D-League Player of the Month honors this past February. It's difficult to be brimming with optimism about a dude nicknamed "slo-mo," however. Anderson is painfully un-athletic relative to his NBA peers. You can time his drives to the hoop with a sundial. He has no lateral quickness on defense. Getting off clean looks is a chore and it's exasperated by his Tebow-esque release. He's crafty no doubt and skilled, with a wicked pump fake. If you watched him in Vegas and squinted, you saw the formative stages of the "old-man game" that's made Paul Pierce a Hall-of-Famer, but Pierce also put up a 19.2 PER as a rookie in Boston.
