Wouldn’t be ST without it.
I thought The Family would at least conduct some kind of sham interview process to make their puppet-installation look a little less obvious.
Impressively shameless tbh.
Remember folks. Winning doesn't matter. Friendship matters. Family matters.
"WHAT THE IS WRONG WITH YOU!? WE'RE A FAMILY!"
- Walter White in Ozymandias/PATFO when Wemby tries to escape The Family compound in the 2028 offseason.
Nico Harrison would be proud.
Another year of "let's see what we have"
Sniffers already in full damage control with " There were no other good coaches available "
All y'all talking about giving him a year or two? You know damn well he's going to be here a while regardless of how many games he wins because Pop and drunkford don't admit to mistakes
There is a reason Bud, Jenkins, Malone and others are available! They didn’t have the respect of their team. There is a lot of behind the scenes stuff that happens in basketball and regardless of the X’s and O’s they failed in the leadership department. Mitch Johnson knows this team. Has built the relationships. Let him gain the teams trust and see if he can lead. Let’s see how it plays out. A lot of you are rushing to the judgement department for a season that was full of turmoil. The Spurs went through a lot this past season and they made it through it all under Mitch Johnson. Moving on from him could have caused a rift between Front Office, coaching staff and players. Give the guy a chance. It was fhe best option under the cir stances.
This organization has been bottom in the league for half a decade now, yet they just can't bring themself to bring fresh blood in. A ton of great coaches available and they bring back f'n Mitch. Jesus christ
No no no no no no no no nooooo... good god, what a horrible decision
interesting point. everyone is so focused on mitch at this time no one has considered the rest of the staff. it would be nice to see him surrounded by some better assistants.
Wish the Team had owners with a brain instead of nepo kids taking over.
Ya because I can see a ton of top level coaches climbing all over each other to be an assistant under Mitch...
They aren't even a playoff team. Let's be clear, their talent is years away from even being a dark horse. Yes, sorry, they have time to see if this assistant they believe in is a good coach just like they have time to draft and develop guys still. Every good coach starts off as an unproven coach, and they all need to be given a chance.
I'm saying that now that Johnson is the HC, Pop and the others need to let him coach however he sees fit so they can really evaluate him and not just his attempt to hold Pop's team together. Give him a chance and be ready to make a real move for a coach if it doesn't work out.
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I would have preferred them actually interview folks and deliberate on their next coach. But I'm not sad they didn't pick up a vet retread under the misguided assumption that they have a window to win yet.
If our roster is as good as many believe it is then it should carry any coach to the promise land. Timmy, Tony and Manu did that for Pop. MJ and Kobe for Phil.
I agree with comment #47 that Glitchy might just be transitional piece for a better coach later when to team is ready for the next step.
This is a disgrace. Not even token interviews?
This is really about one thing:
$$$
It's a broke ass team that isn't saving any money on losing Pop because he's still going to be President
This was about getting the cheapest yes man they could.
Running things like the Sacramento Kings will get you Kings like results.
i'm sure he's well liked by players, after he halved the rotation for no reason the moment he showed up, and took months to understand he was making a dumb move.
The coattail artist would have fully retired if we hadn’t somehow got Wemby. The old hag needs to just be admitted to an assisted living facility.
If Mitch doesn't pan out Wemby might be gone before we even get to see who could be our next coach.
I'm ok with Mitch. He grew up in the Association, 10yrs with the Spurs.
The Riley/Spo correlation is our best case scenario. My hope, perhaps irrational, is that Mitch can assume ownership of his role now that Pop is out. Also notable is that all the losses this season go on Pop's record. Mitch will be 0-0 going into game 1. He can build his own legacy.
The OG NBA coaches are starting to disappear. Bud and Malone might get another shot, but, might not. Taylor Jenkins was a former Spur staffer, so the FO knows exactly who he is and chose Mitch.
I'm just thrilled that we have clarity on this moving forward. I believe it's workable. GSG!
This can't be real.
SOMEBODY TELL ME SHAMS WAS HACKED
You gotta be ing kidding me. Keeping this scrub when there are high end candidates like Jenkins, Vogel, Malone, etc right there for the taking. Only thing worse is going to be when they fire Mitch midseason when they're still a lottery team and then hire Coc.
Literally the only reason they are keeping him is because they don't have to let him coach. This is just pie in the sky nonsense. They aren't even thinking about interviewing anyone when there's a bunch of coaches available. Are you telling me you can see the future and that there are going to be coaches available when mitch ultimately fails? There are a ton of really good coaches with NO ING JOB RIGHT NOW. But those guys. They are all just useless retreads.
Taking a chance on a veteran coach is a much better option then letting Pop pull the strings from his easy chair. And if you don't think that is exactly what is going to happen then you are just a blind sniffer.
more likely Mike Brown imo
Why should he get a chance? They should have gone out and gotten the best candidate and I'd that's Mitch then ok (I'm extremely doubtful this is the case) but the idea they owe him a year is wild.
Maybe Mitch is a good coach and maybe he's got freedom to work free of Pop. I am extremely skeptical and there are damn good candidates out there right now. I don't think this move is 100 percent a disaster but I would eager it's more likely a disaster than a success.
This team should absolutely no questions asked be a playoff team next year if both Victor and Fox play 68 or more games. Anything else is a colossal failure.
And your "window" starts the very second your franchise player proves he is a franchise player. You start building it right then. All this "let's see what we have" is just wasting time. No team wins with the same team they tank with.
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