Positives

Everyone take a break and stop melting for a while to think of the postives. I was origiinally really down on Murray, but I think he will bring the best out of everyone and everyone on our roster can bring the best out of him. Yes the center position will be rough. Yes the roster construction is clunky. But there is reason for optimism. Both Zion and Ingram have played much better when they have a real point guard. And we not only got one, but we got one that when he was the starting point guard his last year for the Spurs was fourth in the league in assists with 9 per game. That was with a starting lineup of Derrick White (before his improvment with the Celtics), a young Keldon Johnson, Doug Mcdermott, and Jakob Poeltl.

This should be the best team that Murray has played with by far. With the Spurs he didn't have any elite offensive talent. He did have one with Trae, but Trae played the position Murray should have been playing. Now he gets elite shooters and an elite big to play with.

His last year in San Antonio he put up 21/9/8. For the 28 games without Trae Young, Murray put up 25/9/6 and that was mostly with guys like Capella, Jalen Johnson, Bogdanovich, Bey, and Hunter. Once again the lineup that we put around him should have much better weapons. I could see him easily putting up an efficient 25/10 while hopefully getting back to at least some of the defensive impact he had in San Antonio. Hopefully we get back to an Ingram that shoots 38-39% on about 6 attempts a game like he did when he was playing with Zo. Zion and Ingram's best years came with Zo at point and Murray is much better. If they can all mesh well they have 3 all star caliber players that have surrounding pieces like Trey, CJ, and Herb as well. That doesn't even include a potential elite movement shooter like Hawk if he can improve this year.

So take a break from melting about things you can't control, and watch these Murray highlights from when he was the point guard in his last year in San Antonio: LINK