How big of an impact will Chris Paul have on the Spurs? | No Cap Room
Yahoo Sports Senior NBA writer Dan Devine and NBA contributor James Herbert discuss how transformative Chris Paul will be for the San Antonio Spurs and how he’ll mesh with Victor Wembanyama. Hear the full conversation on “No Cap Room” and subscribe on Apple Podcasts, Spotify or wherever you listen.
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How big an impact do you think Chris Paul actually makes on this team at this point?
I think he could be sort of transformative.
Last year, there was an enormous difference in how competent the Spurs looked offensively just based on whether or not Trey Jones was on the court, even if you just cloned Trey Jones, that would have been so helpful.
I think Chris Paul, even at his advanced age, I think he is flat better than Trey Jones.
No shade to Trey Jones is Paul is still such a good, effective, smart offensive player.
He is going to get guys the ball where they need it.
He is going to orchestrate that system to the point where wem be doesn't have to create a ton of shots in isolation that are like, you know, these step backs and fade aways like he'll do some of that because he's wem and he wants to and he wants to explore his game.
But I think wem be will find that his life is particularly late in games when, when Chris is on the court because this is what Chris has been doing forever.
Chris is known as a slow it down half court, kind of, you know, I'm gonna maximize this possession and make the other team rotate a bunch of time when he wants to.
He can just like get the ball up quickly when he sees an opportunity.
Like we've seen him do that.
The big question is how many games is he going to be able to play?
But what he should do for their half court offense, I genuinely do think it can be transformative.
The idea of Chris Paul late career being just sort of like a traveling salesman of basketball to everybody.
Like, I'm gonna spend like one or two years in a different city with a bunch of young guys who don't really know how to do anything yet.
And I'm gonna be like, all right, I show up, I teach class, I bring the gospel of organized basketball to the world.
One city at a time with Oklahoma City and then Phoenix and now here at San Antonio.