After 22 consecutive seasons of playoff basketball for the San Antonio Spurs, they now have missed the postseason in consecutive seasons for the first time in franchise history.

The Spurs entered the offseason with around $50 million in cap space and so far they have signed Doug McDermott, Zach Collins, Jock Landale, and their prodigal son in Bryn Forbes. San Antonio are clearly on rebuild mode as they let Patty Mills and Rudy Gay walk and then initiated a sign-and-trade deal to ship out superstar and leading scorer DeMar DeRozan for Thaddeus Young.

They will look to build on their young players and let them loose, Lonnie Walker IV, Dejounte Murray, Keldon Johnson, and the newly drafted Josh Primo will all have a potentially big season ahead of them.

The Spurs were the worst team to shoot the three-ball among the other 29 teams in the NBA as they were ranked last. They certainly addressed this issue as McDermott and Forbes are among the best 3-point shooters in the league right now. Scoring-wise, McDermott had a career year last season as he averaged 13.6 points per game, he is also a career 40.7% shooter from behind the arc.

Forbes also blazed the league as he helped the Milwaukee Bucks win the NBA Championship with his 45.2% three-point shooting mark.

However, despite these signings to address the shooting woes, there is one big thing that the Spurs could have done with all the cap space they had and it is aggressively pursuing free agents on the market.

San Antonio have been playing it safe on free agency over the past couple of years. They did not make any glaring mistakes in this year's offseason but also did not make any move that has any high-rewarding potential on it.

They could have pursued John Collins of the Atlanta Hawks and Kelly Oubre Jr. who ended up signing with the Charlotte Hornets. These two players would have been a nice fit with the young core's timeline as both of them are just in their early 20s.

Given that Collins was a restricted free agent back then, the Spurs could have at least tried their very best in persuading Collins or they could have offered the Hawks an intriguing package like DeRozan for the big man as the Hawks are also in win-now mode after Trae Young led them to the Eastern Conference Finals last season.

Collins could have been an ideal fit for the Spurs since he is the definition of the modern-day NBA big man as he can run, dunk, and shoot. The Hawks’ forward is versatile as he can also play the center position. Collins is a big that can stretch the floor as he has made 38% of his 3-point attempts in his career.

Oubre on the other hand is an unrestricted free agent who could they have easily snatched from the Hornets since the Spurs had all the cap space to sign him outright. Oubre ended up in Charlotte on a 2-year deal worth $26 million.

The Spurs could have been competitive in the Western Conference while still rebuilding if they had pursued both of these players. It will be interesting to see how head coach Gregg Popovich will respond as the team is never seen as competitive enough to even make the 8th seed of a stacked Western Conference.

Popovich is not getting any younger as he is turning 73 in January. Following the Spurs' offseason moves, is Pop willing to invest his time and effort in this rebuilding Spurs roster? Could he retire after finally winning an Olympic Gold Medal with USA in the Tokyo 2020 Olympics?