I don’t want Kawhi Leonard to come back. He can sit at home and be “injured” for the rest of the year because the Spurs have something going on here and I the last thing I want is for Mr. Malingerer Malcontent to come in and be all pouty and injured and passive-aggressive. Real Spurs fans probably want him back so that maybe a deep playoff run can happen, but since all I care about is the minutes and statistical output of Dejounte Murray and Kyle Anderson, I’d be fine with even more injuries actually.
It’s been too long since the Spurs had a real youth movement. It’s starting to happen, even if Tony Parker and Manu Ginobili are still sticking around in their ever-shrinking roles. The team is already barely-recognizable from previous iterations; Murray getting a large amount of PG minutes is certainly jarring when for the last gajillion years Parker was running the show every time you tuned in.
Murray still has a ways to go on the offensive end, but he’s discovered that a lot of rebounds can be had if you just run in there like a crazy person and flail around trying to grab the ball. I’m pretty sure, not 100 percent, but close, that that was how Dennis Rodman was so good at grabbing boards. And he wasn’t just acting like a crazy person. He was one.