San Antonio Spurs: 5 reasons to be excited for the 2019-20 NBA season

The young core coming together

This has to be touched on when you are assessing the San Antonio Spurs.

An essential part of the organization, most of the success for the next era of black and white basketball is going to ride on the shoulders of a few young players: Dejounte Murray, Lonnie Walker, Derrick White, and Jakob Poeltl to name a few.

All of these players are respected young guys who will have to carry the torch for San Antonio.

This team is seeing a personnel change but it should not and will not be a culture change. The Spurs have had two decades of playoff seasons because of their system, and for the most part, the trust their players have in that very system. How do Murray and White fit into this backcourt?

Easily, they have this suffocating quality on defense that can stifle an opponent. Also, if the ball turns over they can fill the lanes and make plays. It is efficient, sometimes flashy but overall just effective basketball.

If the Spurs can see the future with this lineup, the next five to ten years should feel like the last twenty. A lot of lists like to overlook their young guys, but that is not to the fault of those writers.

This Spurs team had some injuries the past two years that kept a lot of these guys from playing quality minutes together. For example, Murray and White have only played 55 minutes together in their time together on the Spurs.

Rotations are going to be a key part of incorporating and meshing this young team together.

This season is a puzzle for this group of Spurs. Head coach Gregg Popovich and the rest of the staff lead by Becky Hammon and Tim Duncan will be working to gather the right rotations. All these players come around the two cornerstones of DeMar DeRozan and LaMarcus Aldridge.

They will contend for an all-star spot this season unless they regress. Either way, the team is going to have to look to the future soon enough.