[Paul Garcia] No extension for the Spurs and Jeremy Sochan. Sochan will be a restricted free agent beginning June 30, 2026, so long as the Spurs tender him a qualifying offer.
[Paul Garcia] No extension for the Spurs and Jeremy Sochan. Sochan will be a restricted free agent beginning June 30, 2026, so long as the Spurs tender him a qualifying offer.
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Good decision by the FO
Too injury prone to warrant a big contract at this point, if he wants it he has to earn it.
Good move by PATFO. Can’t afford to overpay.
Sochan has the chance to show out and get paid. But he has to earn it. We have a lot of talent that needs to get paid, too.
Makes sense really.
For all of our pride in him being a great culture fit and a guy with a legitimately useful skill set, he hasn’t really quite stepped up to the level of being a guy you commit long-term money to. He’s not a key starter like Christian Braun, a DPOY-level defender like Dyson Daniels, or a potential star like Shaedon Sharpe. And as mentioned he’s too injury-prone.
I’d bet Spurs probably offered him something like 12-15 mil a year and him/his agent is betting on him being more productive this year and being able to get closer to 20-25 mil next year like Camara/Braun/Daniels got.
His injuries and lack of shooting depress his value a lot, but in relative value to the Spurs he’s also one of the only plus wing/forward defenders and plus rebounders so the season can go a lot of different ways.
I have loved Sochan since draft night 2022 but if he can’t play more than 50 games in a season, there’s no point to giving him all this money. Brother couldn’t even get through an off-season without multiple injuries. If he plays into a new deal, awesome, but atp whatever happens I don’t care as long as it leads to winning basketball.
Only makes sense in the context of the new CBA. Even if he has a breakout season there’s not going to be big money available next season. There will be bad teams with cap space. He’ll likely take a slightly below market contract to stay with a winner. Both sides are incentivized.
It’s a cold world. Players who got paid under the last CBA are lucky.
I love him but unless his 3 dramatically improves this yesr to like 36%+, it would be better to see what he gets next summer. He’s gonna have a hard time on a deal and that sucks because his defense is elite but it feels like his ceiling is strong backup SF without the 3. The move is probably use assets and Barnes/Keldon/Vassell/Sochan to trade for a better wing SF long term
Love sochan but he isn’t good enough offensively to justify to give him a hefty pay rise
Was going to be the likely outcome.
What Jeremy has (and particularly on offence, hasn’t) shown, doesn’t make him worth the value of contract that he defence would actually be worth if we are able to keep him on the floor longer. And for the last 3 years he has been playing on the worst spacing team in the league. Put him on a team with “normal” spacing, and Sochan is a starter quality player in this league – and that is worth a fair bit more than the MLE-to-15M range. Makes complete sense for him/agent to push it out to RFA if that was the range of the Spurs offer.
And for people suggesting that his lack of shooting will push him out of the rotation this year – I think there’s a chance it goes the other way.
If we actually want to become a playoff team, and compete with the top teams in the West, we need to become far better defensively. And although we have too many non-shooters, we also have too many just straight up bad defenders. If Mitch can find a creative way to have Jeremy in the lineup offensively (along with Wemby, Fox, Castle and one of Vassell/Harper/Kornet based on matchup/need) then I think that is best way to actually compete with the top teams.
Lmfao didn’t even get an extension but I was the hater for saying that he’s not a priority for the Spurs anymore
Sad me
Fine with me. The core of Harper castle wemby and fox is just fine.
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I still think if healthy he could be a strong backup forward with elite defense and solid passing. Before the injury last fall he was on a very encouraging run, but after he came back he never seemed to match it. Not committing to him now is the right move; if he has a great season they can sign him after; if not they can trade him.
Yeah Jeremy is probably my favorite player on the team but there is still a huge question mark on his fit with the new Spurs. His 3pt % is up but not at a consistent level where you commit serious money to him, not to mention his injuries.
Still, he was really good last year when playing at the 4 in the pick and roll, and his defensive versatility would make the Spurs a very tough team to score against with Wemby/Jeremy/CB/Kornet inside. I think the best case scenario would be for him to ball out this season with real improvement with his shooting percentage and staying injury-free, and the Spurs can offer him a reasonable contract for both sides.