Final Thoughts

Obviously, the first and second units won’t always play together as a group. DeRozan and Aldridge, in particular, will probably be separated a lot because of their unnatural fit together on offense. Pop will give DeRozan plenty of time with bench shooters like Mills, White, Belinelli, and Bertans to give him room to slash.

In general, we’ll see a lot of lineup mixing. The Spurs’ reserves have a bunch of shooting that the starting group lacks. And the starters have shot creation and length that the second unit is short on.

This San Antonio squad likely isn’t going to hang with the Warriors, Rockets, Jazz, or Thunder in the West this year. But the Spurs should still be able to make the postseason by hanging around in the next tier of four of five teams.