The Spurs began Wednesday’s preseason game versus Houston with a new and much-anticipated look, starting Jeremy Sochan (listed at 6-8 in this year’s media guide) at the nominal point guard position alongside Devin Vassell (6-5), Keldon Johnson (6-5), Victor Wembanyama (7-3) and Zach Collins (6-11). As Gregg Popovich confirmed afterwards, it’s a starting five we can expect to see as the real basketball gets underway:
“They better play well or we are in trouble. Those are the big guys. They are tall, they are big, they are going to start.”
The odd man out is last year’s floor general, Tre Jones, who’s easily outplayed his second-round draft stock and proven to be a bona fide rotation player in the league but who is also 6-1 and not yet a shooting threat.