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Message: [QUOTE="Gurleyman, post: 5357214, member: 175"] Development is fine and dandy for a team with limited aspirations. But my point is that we are watching the Spurs leap to contender status in real time - with a unicorn who a) may or may not always be healthy and b) will be the highest sought free agent in the history of the world if he ever chooses to go that route. The Spurs are not going to be patient with player development in this window. They are going to try to win. They will clearly make trades to win now and shore up weaknesses. Castle is versatile enough that he’ll always have a role in SA - as long as he’s not in a trade package - but if he has hopes of being a lead guard in this Wemby window, he needs to look the part. He hasn’t yet. And Harper kinda sorta did today. Sure he’s in his second year and that’s a lot of pressure to put on someone in a new role. But you know what else has pressure? The playoffs. We didn’t turn the keys over to Castle two years ago because we had Newton and we had high aspirations. The Spurs have Fox and high aspirations. Stakes are high and his decision making will have to be way better. [/QUOTE]