The Entire Front Office and Coaching Staff Needs a Rebuild

[scott]

Does this post come out of frustration? Yes.

Is it going to sound like a broken record? Maybe.

Is it just recency bias? Well, how many years can we logically extend the concept of recency to?

The fact is, that this entire front office and coaching staff - From RC, Pop, Brian Wright, Brett Brown, Jimmy Baron, whoever the that Australian guy is - all the way down to whomever designs these atrocious jerseys, needs a complete overhaul.

The only positive progress this franchise has made since the Big 3 retired is to suck hard enough to luck into Victor Wembanyama. The on-court strategy and tactics, scouting, team construction, development, and culture of this team since the Big 3 flat out SUCKS.

It's easy for the people orchestrating the suckage to preach the virtue of patience, since they're the beneficiary of a longer rope. To make an analogy to Pop's least favorite role model... this is exactly like Trump telling us he's going to unveil his health care plan very soon. Just keep on waiting, rubes! Patience!

Pop and RC are GOATs. The franchise and its fanbase owe them a debt of gra ude. We, as fans, however, do not owe them an indefinite amount of patience while they milk our team for millions while they perform at league-worst levels.

Brian Wright, on the other hand, has never constructed a winning roster throughout his entire career. I'll give him credit, he's great as stripping the vehicle for parts and getting as much return as possible with the scraps - but that does not build a winning team. He's clearly NOT a turnaround guy... he's a liquidation sale guy. All you sniffers applauding trading away #8 for a 20131 pick based on the rationale that we'll need that pick for when we're in the peak of our championship contention window... talk about putting the cart before the horse!

As for the entire Graphic Design team. I'm sure you are all nice people. But you are horrible graphic designers. You are the reason AI is going to displace actual humans in these roles. Please find new careers immediately.

/Rant

[LeBowen]

Lmao, spot on.

If not for 14% lottery win, right now we'd be the worst team in the league, no contest.
5 years in the lottery (7 FRPs) and more or less guaranteed to make it 6, despite lucking into a GOAT level prospect.

Not that long ago we used to laugh at parennial lottery teams that just couldn't put it together, despite getting multiple top5 picks, while PATFO pulled good players out of their asses and kept competing.
Right now Spurs led by PATFO are a textbook example of a franchise we used to laugh at.

[objective]

Coyote needs to step his game up and smuggle in a new coach from overseas

[Mal]

Whoever is responsible for couple last draft needs to go. All picks were missed (not counting Wemby, because toddler would pick him with 1). Sochan, Castle maybe decent eventually, but both were top10 picks. Rest was just terrible

[RC_Drunkford]

you are saying what I been saying since the 2017 offseason. You're kinda late to the party

[LeBowen]

Whoever is responsible for couple last draft needs to go. All picks were missed (not counting Wemby, because toddler would pick him with 1). Sochan, Castle maybe decent eventually, but both were top10 picks. Rest was just terrible

Tbf, Castle looks like he'll be a great pick considering what were our options.
But in that same draft we traded away a #8 pick for a FRP 7 years down the road while having Keldon/Jeremy/Champagnie/Mamu/Sidy wing rotation. Won't even mention Barnes, he's a short-term veteran solution.
If any of those wings that were available at #8 develops into a legit player, someone has to answer.

2022 was an unmitigated disaster.
Jeremy is the biggest positive in these 4 games, but let's be real, Jalen Williams is a way better player. Spurs went with the non-shooting wing for unknown reasons.
Two picks after Branham were Braun and Kessler. Enough said.
Jovic, Nembhard, Jaylin Williams were picked after Wesley. But they went with a non-shooting guard.

2021 really exposed their scouting abilities.

I won't hold picking Devin against them because he's a legit NBA player, unlike 2021 and 2022 scrubs.
But if they passed on Haliburton because we had DJ and Derrick only to trade them shortly after, it's another example of zero long-term strategy.

Keldon salvaged 2019 draft, but Samanic pick was RC's random swing on a player noone else rated.

[rjv]

wholesale changes of sports teams rarely works out.

[poopbox]

Lmao, spot on.

If not for 14% lottery win, right now we'd be the worst team in the league, no contest.
5 years in the lottery (7 FRPs) and more or less guaranteed to make it 6, despite lucking into a GOAT level prospect.

Not that long ago we used to laugh at parennial lottery teams that just couldn't put it together, despite getting multiple top5 picks, while PATFO pulled good players out of their asses and kept competing.
Right now Spurs led by PATFO are a textbook example of a franchise we used to laugh at.

Between Primo, Luka, Branhim, and Blake, we have thrown away 4 first round picks on 2 players who are barely nba players and 2 players who are legit not even in the nba

This is the "the process" 76ers used to do or the Kings spent a decade doing

[Chomag]

Sniffers here will tell you "5 rings"
A true definition of en lement... because of how good they were years ago that they should not be held accountable of anything on how they perform at the job today.

[scott]

Unfortunately I cannot find these stats, but I was curious at what the longest sub .500 streak for an NBA coach and GM are.

Maybe some old school guys had some long streaks, but I have to imagine most, if not all, get fired before they hit year 6 (with each year progressively worse, I might add!)

[LeBowen]

Unfortunately I cannot find these stats, but I was curious at what the longest sub .500 streak for an NBA coach and GM are.

Maybe some old school guys had some long streaks, but I have to imagine most, if not all, get fired before they hit year 6 (with each year progressively worse, I might add!)

Jerry Sloan was deemed senile after 39W season, despite it being his only second losing season ever. And it's not like he didn't have to replace his two stars in a stacked West.
We need our Deron Williams, tbh.

[RC_Drunkford]

btw has there ever been a franchise that mispells the name of their players on the back of their jersey every year?



does Pop tell them: "Keep pounding the rock, you'll spell the names right eventually" or how is that happening all the time now?

[exstatic]

Unfortunately I cannot find these stats, but I was curious at what the longest sub .500 streak for an NBA coach and GM are.

Maybe some old school guys had some long streaks, but I have to imagine most, if not all, get fired before they hit year 6 (with each year progressively worse, I might add!)

Can’t find that exact stat, but on the bbref coaches register, if you sort by wins, there are two coaches, Bill Fitch and Motta, who both have over 900 wins and 25 seasons each, and have a sub .500 records, Fitch at .460 and Motta at .479. Not sure about consecutives, but both of those had to include many sub .500 seasons.

Fitch is in the HOF, probably mainly due to his stint with Boston. I guess Doc Rivers wasn’t the first to coast off that and continue to get undeserved jobs.

[Leetonidas]

You obviously hate this team and should drink bleach

[exstatic]

Jerry Sloan was deemed senile after 39W season, despite it being his only second losing season ever. And it's not like he didn't have to replace his two stars in a stacked West.
We need our Deron Williams, tbh.

I watched a podcast with Deron as a guest, and he acknowledged that he was wrong at the time to do what he did.

[RC_Drunkford]

Gregg Popovich Told Bam Adebayo He ‘Wasn’t Ready

https://www.slamonline.com/news/nba/...e-wasnt-ready/


not ready Adebayo averaged 16/10/5/1/1 that season and became an All-Star. Pop picked Brook Lopez and Mason Plumlee over him. Plumlee's stats: 7/5/2/0.7/1

That was 2020. He went senile a longass time ago.

[Mugen]

Anybody who still thinks the old man is an above average NBA coach at this stage is obviously delusional. There are zero people at his age that are still competent at their profession tbh. Unfortunately, he used his wife's death to hijack the franchise and we won't sniff relevancy again until after he's gone.

BWrong's greatest achievement as a GM is to literally get lucky on a ping pong ball bounce

He's done literally nothing else to show that he can even come close to building a contending team. I'm much more worried about the leash he has since he's not 1000 years old like Pop tbh.

[Seventyniner]

btw has there ever been a franchise that mispells the name of their players on the back of their jersey every year?

Blake is actually the Dread Pirate Roberts. They have to misspell his name to throw everyone off the scent.

[MultiTroll]

Not sure about consecutives, but both of those had to include many sub .500 seasons.

Fitch is in the HOF, probably mainly due to his stint with Boston.

Fitch never went more then 5 years with sub .500 with one team.
He did, at the end of his career go sub with
New Jersey 3 straight.
Clippers 4 straight.

So 7 years in a row aye? Nope, not to me. For one thing scott asked if any made it to year 6 without being canned. Fitch was canned, changed teams.
We all knew and know Donald Sterling had no intention of winning. So for Fitch to pull some fat checks while living in LA in his retirement years, good for him.

[exstatic]

Fitch never went more then 5 years with sub .500 with one team.
He did, at the end of his career go sub with
New Jersey 3 straight.
Clippers 4 straight.

So 7 years in a row aye? Nope, not to me. For one thing scott asked if any made it to year 6 without being canned. Fitch was canned, changed teams.
We all knew and know Donald Sterling had no intention of winning. So for Fitch to pull some fat checks while living in LA in his retirement years, good for him.

Bill Fitch started his career with 5 years sub .500 in Cleveland, and coached there for another 4 more. It might help to come with facts before you press that reply button.

[tim_duncan_fan]

On the topic of the coaching staff's accountability for the lack of success over the last 6 years and Pop's ability as a coach, I have but one question:

Talent aside and physical gifts aside, have the players often looked well-prepared? We have been consistently leaving the other team's best 3-point shooter open for nearly a decade.

[scott]

Shot...

Fitch never went more then 5 years with sub .500 with one team.
He did, at the end of his career go sub with
New Jersey 3 straight.
Clippers 4 straight.

So 7 years in a row aye? Nope, not to me. For one thing scott asked if any made it to year 6 without being canned. Fitch was canned, changed teams.
We all knew and know Donald Sterling had no intention of winning. So for Fitch to pull some fat checks while living in LA in his retirement years, good for him.

Bill Fitch started his career with 5 years sub .500 in Cleveland, and coached there for another 4 more.

Chaser...

It might help to come with facts before you press that reply button.

[objective]

Don't worry, when RC and Pop finally move on then Brian Wright will just hire even more cronies with zero accomplishments from his Pistons and Lottery Magic stints

[GAustex]

Wish Elon would buy them

[tbdog]

On the topic of the coaching staff's accountability for the lack of success over the last 6 years and Pop's ability as a coach, I have but one question:

Talent aside and physical gifts aside, have the players often looked well-prepared? We have been consistently leaving the other team's best 3-point shooter open for nearly a decade.

23/24 - 23^rd opp 3P%. 11^th attempts
22/23 – 30^th opp 3P%. 5^th attempts
21/22 – 20^th opp 3P%. 8^th attempts.
20/21 – 23^rd opp 3P%. 9^th attempts
19-20 – 25^th opp 3P%. 24^th attempts


So there is a trend there for the spurs allowing high percentage of 3's being made at less attempts.