Rarely/barely gets in games. Did briefly tonight and did well enough to get to the podium:
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10 points in 11 minRarely/barely gets in games. Did briefly tonight and did well enough to get to the podium:
Mamu remains a class act and I keep hoping he gets consistent minutes and becomes part of the rotation for the Spurs.
Another good line for Mamu tonight.
| MIN | FG | 3PT | FT | OREB | DREB | REB | AST | STL | BLK | TO | PF | +/- | PTS |
| 15 | 4-5 | 2-3 | 0-0 | 3 | 4 | 7 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 0 | -12 | 10 |
Good numbers for Mamu last night especially his 7 rebounds leading the team in his 15 minutes .
Jeremy Sochan has a fractured thumb and will be out indefinitely. He is scheduled for surgery later this week. That will give Sandro the opportunity for rotation minutes.
Despite the nice stat line, his minus-12 sticks out like a sore thumb. The Spurs lost ground (in a game that was never really close) during both of his stints in the game. That's certainly not all his fault but it's something the coaching staff will use in its evaluation of his performance.
But every player had at least -9 for any double digit playing time and Mamu was pretty much the same as the starters.
6 players ranged from -9 to -12 with Castle, Wemby, Johnson and Branham each either -17 or -18.
Mamu was pretty much right in the middle.
+- is a more meaningful stat across several games (or a season). Less so a single game
It’s actually ironic you say this because Gregg Popovich (his coach) is the most vocal critic of +/- stat. He hates it and has called it useless.
“It’s the most meaningless thing on the whole sheet. I don’t know where (the idea) came from, who pioneered it, who slid it into the NBA, who thought it was cool.
”I’ve got no clue, but it’s the most useless thing there is on the whole stat sheet. It’s dangerous. It creates the wrong impressions for players. I hate it.”
Mamu had another solid game As the Spurs beat the Kings. He saw 16 minutes hitting 3 - 5 from the field all 3 pointers for his game total of 9 points and a + 7.
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The former Seton Hall Pirate finished +7 on the night with nine points on 3-5 shooting from the field, all from long range. The next closest Spur bench player who logged more than one minute of play, Keldon Johnson, finished +2. The Georgian pulled down two rebounds in the victory as well.
Mamukelashvili played for the Spurs the previous two seasons and logged extensively more minutes last year (46 games played) that in his initial campaign (19 games played) with the team. Mamukelashvili could see another jump this season as the Spurs attempt to find a cohesive bench unit to hold its own in the occasional absence of Victor Wembanyama.
Before the season, Mamukelashvili said he was excited to return to San Antonio for the 2024-25 campaign. In an interview with KENS 5, the Georgian-born forward said that he grew up idolizing the style of basketball Spurs head coach Gregg Popovich coached.
"I tell everybody, and I mean it, growing up, if you were playing basketball in Europe, you would ask 'Oh, what type of style are we playing?' Spurs style," said Mamukelashvili. "It was always Popovich style, you know? Like, it was more like swing, swing, pass, cut, make a decision, don't hold the ball, no one on one. It's like more of what Pop preaches."
Mamukelashvili and the rest of the Spurs resume play on Wednesday when they take on the Washington Wizards in San Antonio. Tip off is slated for 7 p.m.
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