Nearly a quarter of the way through the 2021-22 NBA season, the back end of San Antonio Spurs’ main rotation remains a conundrum. When everyone is healthy, the top seven players have been obvious, with Dejounte Murray, Derrick White, Keldon Johnson, Doug McDermott and Jakob Poeltl starting, and the first two players off the bench in terms of minutes played being Devin Vassell and Lonnie Walker. After that it’s been a bit if a mashup, with the remaining available minutes mostly going to Thaddeus Young, Drew Eubanks, Keita Bates-Diop and Bryn Forbes.
While the debate over who should be getting backup center minutes rages on and is definitely a topic worth discussing, the time has come to look at another spot: backup point guard.