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Awesome to hear.
He had some good schemes in the 2006 playoffs.
Will also be a good guy who Pop will listen to, who will tell him "Look this doesn't work, this is what they are doing, do this to counter"
AJ was at the Spurs training camp today watching practice. Will he be a coach for us.----This was reported on the 5pm SAT news. I vote
Awesome to hear.
He had some good schemes in the 2006 playoffs.
Will also be a good guy who Pop will listen to, who will tell him "Look this doesn't work, this is what they are doing, do this to counter"
IDK man.....it wouldnt hurt to have him on board but i dont think it would happen and yea im with you....
I heard he wants to play again. WE NEED MORE POINT GUARDS!! WHERE ARE ALL THE POINT GUARDS!!
Very good news. Yet not to surprising (despite what whottt says about the current Spurs hating AJ).
I don't see him being an assistant coach because he'd lose that $$ he's getting from Mark Cuban. But Pop likes bringing in ex-head coaches during training camp so he can get an extra set of eyes and ideas of how to do things.
http://blogs.mysanantonio.com/weblog...nald_a_14.html
Jeff McDonald: Another point guard in camp
There are six players in Spurs training camp with experience playing point guard. On Wednesday morning, they welcomed another one.
Avery Johnson, who manned the point on the Spurs' first NBA le team in 1999, was on hand to observe his former team's second day of training camp. Johnson, of course, is newly unemployed, having been removed from his post as the head coach in Dallas over the offseason.
Not surprisingly, Johnson was embraced as a friend of the Spurs family, and not as an erstwhile rival coach.
For Spurs coach Gregg Popovich, the feelings of seeing Johnson in town Wednesday were mixed.
"I like to have Avery here, because he's special to all of us here in San Antonio," Popovich said. "It's good to get a chance to talk basketball with him, talk family and just laugh and have a good time. But I'd rather he was coaching somewhere."
* Popovich probably wishes Johnson could play some post. Due to injuries to big men Kurt Thomas and Ian Mahinmi, the Spurs are thin for the moment in the frontcourt.
In fact, Thomas' strained hamstring is almost solely responsible for the end of the Brian Morrison era in San Antonio. Morrison, a 6-2 guard, was waived after one day of training camp so the Spurs could add another big body -- the 6-foot-9 Charles Gaines, a veteran of the European leagues.
Thomas said Wednesday he expects to miss at least the first week of camp, and possibly the second. Mahinmi, out with a sprained right ankle, felt well enough to shoot around at Wednesday's session, but still isn't expected to be available for much of the preseason.
Well, we've got two shooting guards backing up Tony at the point. May as well let Avery take a shot at PF. What the .
Don Nelson and Jim Boeheim were at the Spurs Training Camp in the Virgin Islands a couple of years ago, with Boeheim directing a good portion of one practice (teaching Zone). It doesn't mean anything that AJ was there today.
Shame he can't be a full time assistant.
Bad news about Thomas. Training camp would be great for him learn the system more.Thomas said Wednesday he expects to miss at least the first week of camp, and possibly the second. Mahinmi, out with a sprained right ankle, felt well enough to shoot around at Wednesday's session, but still isn't expected to be available for much of the preseason.
It happened the same thing with Nazr, who arrived in the midseason and missed the camp because the birth of his son
Are you ing stupid? Why the wouldn't you want Avery back? He's a proven HEAD coach who is familiar with Pop and the surroundings of San Antonio.AJ was at the Spurs training camp today watching practice. Will he be a coach for us.----This was reported on the 5pm SAT news. I vote
Did you read the original post you moron? Get your the neighbors 3 year old to translate it for you.
I believe Tim doesn't like AJ's coaching style, and will not play for him. That basically rules out any possibility of ever having AJ on board.
I wouldn't want him either.
Keep hanging onto that myth.
The op voted thumbs down.
Did you forget your 3 year old neighbor?
She voted
Good news.Mahinmi, out with a sprained right ankle, felt well enough to shoot around at Wednesday's session, but still isn't expected to be available for much of the preseason.
I don't think it's really a big deal if Mahinmi miss practices but preseason games will be important to showcase what he can do.
Spurs have 7 preseason games. If Mahinmi is back in two weeks, he will have 5 games to show what he is worth. If his recovery takes one more week, he will still have two preseason games.
More Avery man-love? Please.
Anyone smell the scorched earth he left in his wake the last time he left town? I aint talking about in Dallas either.
Only AJ would dictate a mandatory, post-up style with a roster which has no post up player. Give me a break!
Again, keep buying into that myth.
It's amazing how Spurs fans can twist having the coach with the highest winning percentage in NBA history helping out as a bad thing.
The news on Thomas is bad. He needed this training camp almost as much as Mahinmi. His offense cohesion with the rest of the team was horrible last season. Training camp is the best time to work out the kinks.
Mahinmi sounds like he will miss all of training camp and I think that basically ruins his whole season. If he played well in training camp, Pop was going to play him a massive amount of minutes in the preseason to see what he could do. Now he's going to be gimpy and even if he can play in a few preseason games, he'll likely be out of shape and unable to show what he can do.
The only good news that may perhaps come out of the Mahinmi injury is they can probably send him to D-League without him getting too upset. He knows he is missing a huge opportunity.
I scoffed at the notion earlier but is it time to reconsider the fact that Mahinmi may be a China doll? He's been hurt a whole lot with a bunch of different injuries since the Spurs drafted him. Pop even sounded a bit miffed about Mahinmi getting hurt. I don't want to put him in the Paino category but Pop sounded like he was ready to pull that trigger.
Even if that were true, do you honestly believe Pop would let anybody come in and upset his star? Whatever Avery does with the team he does under the supervision of Pop, and I don't think Pop is the kind of guy who takes from anybody.
Smells more like a retired jersey.
Dallas Fan, Dallas Owner and Dallas Media doesn't understand how NBA championships are won. Name the last completely perimeter team to win an NBA championship. Even these Celtics scored a bunch of points in the paint by posting up everyone from Garnett to Pierce to Cassell to PJ Brown.
If Dallas hates AJ, that tells me he was doing something right.
Are you sure of that ?
what the has he ever done in postseason
and what the has he done to keep chemistry in dallas
NOTHING
AJ wouldn't want to make millions over thousands?
I can't see that.
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