Youngest most exciting player in a generation. Small market team garnering worldwide attention.
And still being held hostage by Popovich. No media has the guts to question anything they do, no matter how questionable. Team is struggling with a placeholder coach who fumbles around with lineup changes waiting for a 75 year old man to recover from a stroke and come back to coach?
But by all means, let's make sure we address Victor's lazy play as the Spurs rack up losses and go on the same droughts that have cost them games for years.
Is it time for an over/under for when Victor demands a trade?
Apologies if local media is talking about this. National media and ST seem not to be.
Real talk: It would be remiss if ownership, RC Buford and whoever with stakes in the franchise do not a have yet a shortlist of candidates who would take over as permanent coach. Pop would likely have a significant input in such decision, but the idea of him coming back and coaching beyond few token games to end the season would be both silly and dangerous, imo.
There would be contingency plans. Better candidates will come forward in the off season. I dare say the main offseason question would be how to utilise Wemby on both ends.
Also, usually you don't let a coach go unless you know what's out there.
I think the prospects of coaching Wemby might be so enticing that even currently employed NBA coaches might accept to terminate their current contracts and jump at the opportunity (Will Hardy in Utah comes to my mind). Bud would have been the clear favorite if he didn't sign with Phoenix. Wish Spo didn't sign that gigantic extension in Miami, i would absolutely throw the bag at him. I think early candidates include Mitch Johnson (duh), James Borrego, Steve Kerr, Becky. I think Pop will go for the in-house option, someone who gets rewarded with a relatively great level of job security as a result.
let's make the janitor the head coach. He does a good job, he deserves it.
The time of the Spurs being the gold standard of the NBA are long gone. We're a mediocre franchise at best, with mediocre coaches, players, marketing department, etc., etc. There is nothing elite about the Spurs, except Wemby.
The Spurs front office used to be a well oiled machine. Now it’s a rust bucket of bolts.
What about Quin? Where is he on his Atlanta contract?
The thing is, coaches wouldn't leave a head coaching job to interview for another position. The spurs would require permission from the team to speak to them. I have heard of coaches being traded. Pat Riley was ironically one and it cost a first round pick. Realistically, how much would Spo cost?
I'm afraid PATFO is more than satisfied with Mitch and yes it's depressing tbh.
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First off, I have no real problems with Mitch. I feel he has gotten more out of this roster than Pop did.
IF he's not the guy long-term, my list would include:
Dan Hurley
Becky Hammon
Quin Snyder
Erik Spoelstra
Maybe Manu Ginobili
Looking under rocks for the next Mark Daigneault
I really hope they're just waiting out Hurley to offer him the job in the summer but my expectation is Mitch is head coach again next season.
All I want is a coach who would design a system that works with the strength of the players rather than change the players to fit into a system.
Pop used to be great at that where he would design a scheme with the player skill sets in mind. He integrated the wildness and unpredictability of manu and the speed of Tony into the offence starting around 2005 or so, moving away from the strictly four down style earlier on. The offence he will featured manu from 2008 to around 2010/11 then Tony took the reins in 2012/13. And then it shifted to a pass heavy motion offense. It’s not a clear cut change but a gradual change over the years to incorporate one element at a time. Same thing for defence going from the twin towers to Bowen to Kawhi. With very different philosophies. But now it appears that he has a system in mind (I can’t figure out what it is) and then forcing these players to adapt to it, and as a result have these players do things they can’t do.
i think you really underestimated.
The janitor deserves his turn in the coaching carousel. I'm for it.
With every passing year the true greatness of Tim Duncan becomes more obvious. No single player has ever buoyed such a mediocre franchise so much. I hope the team addresses its weaknesses before Victor figures that out.
Hiring a gal
Lol
You are better than this, Obstructed_View
You seriously think that the Spurs are going to dismiss the winningest coach in NBA history after having a near-death experience? Show some goddamn respect to a Spurs legend.
Pop probably isn't coming back, so all you ers wishing for him to leave got your wish.
But Mitch is going to be our coach until the end of the season, and then the Spurs will make their decision, so STFU
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Bring the Silver Dancers back too
He only won because of his players. He gets way too much credit, thinks too highly of himself, has abused the local media for decades and is retirement age and too ing stubborn to let the team move on from him after a stroke.
If he wants respect, he should have quit years ago. him. .
^yep
OP and many others have covered it. You have the 1/1, a multi-generational talent, and you give him coaches and wore players. Wake up, ownership.
The coach sucks sure. But hes not the reason we lose so mich
Our team sucks. Deal with it
There's argument to be made that Wemby deserves consistency. As much as he's a Pop fan, he's also our player, and our professional whom we have billions of dollars of city money (indirectly and directly) riding on. Pop is being an egotist, like usual. Hang em the up, and let's try for somebody else.
Plenty of great players played for multiple coaches. I wish Pop could be Wemby's ... uh, Pop, or basically PJ to MJ if you will, but he's too ing old. Wemby's Pop or PJ is WAITING IN THE WINGS right now, tbh. If such a relationship is fated. We're wasting in' time, how is this not hard to figure out ....
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