2024-25 season players review - What is the best horse

Season data: 61 games, averaged 6.3 points, 3.1 rebounds, 50.2% shooting, 37.3% three-pointers

When it comes to Mamu, everyone should be very impressed by his rampage.

In the game against the Knicks, there was no Wenban or Fox, Mamu stood out from the bench. He only played 19 and a half minutes, making 13 of 14 shots, including 7 of 7 three-pointers, 9 rebounds (5 front boards) and 3 assists.

34 points were Mamu's career high, and he became the first player in NBA history to score 30+ points in less than 20 minutes and make all three-pointers.

In fact, although there are not many opportunities, throughout the season, Mamu has demonstrated his efficient scoring ability many times, with his three-point shooting and finishing skills at the basket, especially three-pointers. Whether it is shooting, output or shooting percentage, it is more stable than Collins who left the team, and there are not many games with a shooting percentage of 40%.

Mamu's biggest impression is that as long as he steps into the court, he is full of energy, whether it is garbage time or attacking moments. If he can't score, he can also use rebounds to make people feel his presence - although playing time is always fragmented, he has done enough.

When on the court, he has a stable rebounding rate, rarely makes mistakes, and ranks third in the team in the average speed, which is much better than the old cold-legged Brazil - he often runs all over the field and can also make a considerable number of three-pointers.

Strong body, strong athletic ability, and no mistakes to make mistakes and provide shooting ability. This is exactly what a substitute should do at the fourth position. With the main players of the Spurs one by one and fewer insiders, Mamu carried the team with his excellent ball dealership and support skills, which is worthy of his contract.

However, when the team is at a low point, players will inevitably be placed under the microscope, and some defects cannot be ignored.

For example, although he threw 60 three-pointers this season, 41 of them were shot in garbage time when the team was behind double digits, and 26 were shot in garbage time when they were leading or falling behind more than 16 points - that is, what he did was either adding fuel to the fire or running wildly.

When the difference between the two sides is within 10 points, his outside shooting percentage is only 26%, which means he does not provide strong help in some critical moments.

In terms of defense, he is very stable at the team level. For example, when he played with Wenban, his ability still greatly restricted him. He was too small and thin to play five, and he was not able to defend the outside players with four horizontal movement speed, so he was not good at protecting the basket. After the end of the season, Mamu became an unrestricted free agent. At his level, other teams may only offer minimum offers, and even he may go to Europe to play - it's just a guess.

If the Spurs want to, they may keep him - after all, he is an excellent complementary partner of the current team's Rivenban Yama, and his versatile attributes and cost-effective contracts are his advantages.

In the long run, if management is satisfied with his performance this season, he may get a multi-year middle class contract and use him as the core candidate for the bench and even an important puzzle for the reconstruction period.

What he needs to do is to continuously improve his defensive focus and three-point stability, and show his value in a higher intensity environment, so that he is expected to have more stable rotation time, shine on the Spurs' reconstruction path, and even become a scarce "space-supporting insider" in the league.