SAN ANTONIO, TX – OCTOBER 24: Davis Bertans #42 of the San Antonio Spurs looks for room around Domantas Sabonis #11 of the Indiana Pacers during an NBA game on October 24, 2018 at the AT&T Center in San Antonio, Texas. The Indiana Pacers won 116-96. (Photo by Edward A. Ornelas/Getty Images)
The San Antonio Spurs have a budding young talent in Davis Bertans, but they aren’t giving him the playing time he deserves.
Davis Bertans has always been a tantalizing figure for San Antonio Spurs fans ever since he joined the team in 2016.
The just-turned-26-year-old Latvian has shown plenty of flashes of brilliance during his three-year tenure with the Spurs, but he’s never consistently put together a full season of high level play.
Bertans is off to a great start this year as the game finally looks like it’s slowing down for a player who has as much talent as anyone in the Spurs’ rotation outside of their two All-NBA superstars.
Still, Gregg Popovich doesn’t seem to trust Bertans enough to give him significant playing time as Bertans is only averaging 15.5 minutes per game this season.
In the following slides I’ll present a case why Pop should finally unleash Bertans and give him a more prominent role on this team.
