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Not even opening up the position to interview other candidates. Reeks of Pops nepotism.
not a fan of this first move by the new full-time president of basketball operations
Not even opening up the position to interview other candidates. Reeks of Pops nepotism.
A clear sign that pops first decision as president…is coming from a cooked brain…
I'm not too thrilled either but can we wait to see how the offseason plays out before doing our usual pansy ass complaining? Coaching is irrelevant most of the time as long as you have good players to build around.
The Spurs have something special with Castle and got Fox for free. I doubt their approach to this whole process is durr let's see what happens durr. No! They will be making other moves soon starting with the draft.
Gosh some of you don't get it. The only reason it's Mitch is because Pop still wants to control from his rocker or wherever the he'll be on his IV drip during games. Mitch is the sycophantic hire who will do whatever old man four down wants.
You're gonna have the same batch of ty assistants as they had this year, the same ty stupid system, and an emo head coach who couldn't manage rotations this year without stroke patient's approval.
You have one of the most exciting young cores in the NBA and you go Pop nepotism hire. Disgusting.
I like the hire! The analytics show he modernized the Spurs offense after Pop went out. He has already built relationships with the current players in the organization. Will have a full offseason now to implement his coaching style onto the team. 38 years old so will only get better. Will be able to grow as the team grows.
To me this signals the Spurs won’t be making any big trades this offseason. They will draft and develop. I don’t think it would be wise to bring in another superstar type player that will have their own agenda. A Kevin Durant could be toxic for a young coach like Mitch. A Giannis type trade would only come with massive roster turnover that would require a complete reset in basketball philosophy. I don’t think the Spurs would want to throw Mitch into that type of situation in year 1 as a Head Coach. They could make other moves or trades to improve the team I just don’t see them doing an overhaul of roster changes. Mitch knows this team and hopefully understands what they need to do moving forward to improve.
Worse case you can fire him in 2 years after Wemby signs his rookie extension. The Spurs would have to absolutely nail that hire or risk losing Wemby. Best case he grows as a coach as the team grows and gets better. He could build lasting relationships with the young players on the Spurs. They could build the next Spurs Dynasty!
Give Johnson another year with no handcuffs. If he fails bring in a real coach. They weren't winning next year anyway. He should get a real chance rather than implementing Pop's scheme. But they can't be married to him.
i figured the melt down would be enough to almost crash the server. nothing to be said, really. it's done. just have to hope he proves us wrong.
The problem is there are good coaches now that are available. There's no reason to watch and wait when there are people there that can help immediately. But Pop it's not going to give up control to someone else. He is going to Jerry Jones this organization and it will finally get rebuilt when he is gone altogether.
Maybe Mitch and Wright will do an end of season press conference now.
Would be interested in hearing them talk about philosophy and team iden y going forward.
Love the “we weren’t winning next year anyway” approach. You can’t fail to meet expectations if you don’t have any
this organization kept Pop for 29 years. We’re stuck with guy for at least Vic’s rookie contract if not beyond, with or without positive results.
The holt children are dumb as rocks
That's exactly what this feels like. He's Pop's lapdog who he can control. The ultimate "Yes-man." Basically an extension of himself. It appears the old man's senility will continue to haunt us from the Front Office.What a ing joke. Pop just wanted a puppet whose strings he can pull. He’s literally Jerry jones
He earned the shot and better than some retread trying to relive their glory days. He seems sharp, has the respect of the team and also seems a very good guy. Congrats Coach Mitch!
So he can control the team
So much coping in here. The sniffer crew is out in full force.
“We aren’t winning next year anyway… we’ve got to recover from trading Kawhi”
”We aren’t winning next year anyway… we’ve got to have time to move on from DDR and LMA”
”We aren’t winning next year anyway… we’ve got to tear it down and transition from DJM”
”We aren’t winning next year anyway… we’re tanking for Wemby”
”We aren’t winning next year anyway… Wemby is just a rookie”
”We aren’t winning next year anyway… Wemby is only in his second year, he isn’t ready to win”
”We aren’t winning next year anyway… We need to give Mitch time…”
Future ST.com comments?
”We aren’t winning next year anyway… We need to transition from Mitch…”
”We aren’t winning next year anyway… We just lost Wemby…”
Im good with it. I wanted someone young and that didnt have all the baggage of being a re-tread coach and he fits that. Let’s see what he can do. He did well enough overall and spurs competed in most games despite big talent gaps.
He wont have leash Pop had obviously but there is a nice benefit of this being done so full focus can be on team building now.
aka Shadow Government
This is such a bad philosophy. Just because they aren't le favorites doesn't mean you make bad personnel decisions. Progress takes multiple steps over the course of multiple seasons where the team won't be winning/winning it all.
There was zero reason to rush this. He could have interviewed other guys and come to the same decision. But he isn’t giving up control.
Glitch Johnson can be the transitional coach before we get the championship level coach to replace him. I hope he gets a fair chance to run the team how he wants and replaces most of the assistants.
Sounds like copium if we fall short of making the playoffs again. If the spurs are just gonna play like they did last year where they were barely playing .500 ball, fire him. You know it’s just gonna be a wasted season at that rate. But I also think they don’t do this move without Wemby’s input and it appears he supports it.Maybe Mitch and Wright will do an end of season press conference now.
Would be interested in hearing them talk about philosophy and team iden y going forward.
Love the “we weren’t winning next year anyway” approach. You can’t fail to meet expectations if you don’t have any
“We aren’t ready to improve” might be one of my favorite ST.com mindset tropes
Fails to reconcile nicely with the annual “this might be our last high pick in a while” and “our Young Core is stacked” wishcasting
I'm not as confident in the current coaching crop, honestly. The Spurs gave up decent coaching talent over the years, so to some extent Pop knows how to identify or train coaches more than he's been able to do for players. I think Johnson may be one of those guys, and it's worth it to find out.
Pat Riley has continued to be the face of the Heat, but Spo has been able to develop into a good coach. I'm hoping for that here, but I'd want a much better vet assistant than Brown.
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