GOAT confirmed
For the best, on a simply human level. It would be a huge mistake to put a 76 year old stroke victim back on an NBA sideline. POBO with nothing more than the expectation of 10-20 hours a week if he wants it, otherwise... let's get his name up the rafters and move on.
Maybe RC views this as his time to step away as well (nothing against RC... just thinking aloud)
About time they face the obvious.
He is never going to be ok enough to withstand the grind of an NBA season.
He needs to officially retire and give the organization a chance to replace him.
I anticipate that is what will happen.
I say give Mitch a chance next year. I think he can be a good coach if he doesn't have to always look over his shoulder.
Man, I hate to hear this simply due to the reasoning. I’d rather he just quit but not because of what happened if that makes sense.
i pray hes okay though. It would be nice to be able to at least come back speak to media at some point even if it’s a year from now but i almost fear that we’ll never see him in the media again.
His total lack of public appearances is concerning.
I suspect he has not regained his full mental faculties and that breaks my heart to consider.
I hope I’m wrong.
Get well Pop and enjoy retirement. ❤️#��
lol...no. The time for wasting time is over. You don't take a lost season and follow it up with more experiments that are full of unknowns. Draft well, hire a coach and get to work.
1. I’m sorry, but why? Why ‘give him [another] chance?’ This isn’t a feel-good charity. no.
2. He’s had forever this season, and we’re one of the worst-rebounding teams in the NBA. The players aren’t developing. If your interim coach has you fielding the ‘team’ we’ve seen this year, you NEVER waste ‘another’ year ‘hoping for the best.’ That’s an invitation for other teams to tamper with Wemby and have him in a Lakers uniform in a few years. You don’t gamble your franchise on a bad bet hoping it’ll work out because Mitch is ‘nice’ or for some other inexplicable (obviously non-performance) reason.
3. Even if you could ‘excuse’ everything this year because ‘Pop’s pulling the strings’ (you can’t, and it’s frankly stupid to hope things will magically turn around - see supra), Mitch shouldn’t have let him, and the Spurs could tell Pop to let Mitch try ‘coaching for the job’ the rest of this wasted season. See if Mitch can improve an inferior roster (sans Wemby and Fox) and make it ‘better’ to any discernible degree. I wouldn’t hold my breath though. Pop isn’t ‘making’ Mitch turn the team into one of the worst-boxing-out teams in the NBA.
4. Nothing prevents Mitch from ‘trying out’ somewhere else, like a mid-level college or something. You don’t risk wasting another year of Wemby’s career and the future of a billion-dollar franchise on Mitch.
5. This is particularly true when Wemby / Fox / Castle / good future picks should allow the Spurs to attract so many better / more likely to succeed options - like Hurley, etc.
I could throw other reasons out there - and believe it or not, I’m not trying to put YOU down - but this IDEA is terrible and needs to die, before it eventually sends the Spurs to Vegas. If you think it can’t be that bad, look at the Mavs. It can always go south much faster than you realize.
Last edited by Gandalf; 02-22-2025 at 11:21 PM.
I think we might have already seen Pop's final coaching game.
Just retire in peace
Coach Bud might be about to get fired he would be a good candidate.
Although I’d prefer Hurley or Spoelstra if we could pry them away, Bud might be an option. Why has he failed in Phoenix though?
They suck, and the coach always gets the blame.
Maybe we can hire a staff of all fired Suns coaches. Bud, Monty... what's Frank Vogel up to these days? Or skip on Frank and go for Alvin Gentry, Terry Porter and D'Antoni to make it a full staff of ex-Suns coaches with Spurs connections.
Yeah, they’re not good, but I didn’t know if maybe ‘star’ Durant and his teammates are just not very coachable, refuse to work together, play defense, etc. Something that would excuse Bud’s failure there to any degree.
The whole ing staff needs to be cleaned out, but Pop will have to die before the team has the guts to do that. Hopefully something is resolved before Victor decides he's done with this ing clown show.
I can appreciate the sentiment of being the “good guy” organization that we historically were able to be (having a core of Tim/Tony/Manu enabled that) but continuing down that road is the path to ending up as the Sacramento Kings. The front office has to become results oriented again and stop hiring/promoting “our guys” at every turn who are completely unproven.
Mitch basically had a season to win the job whether he knew it was up for grabs or not and he failed to do so. His best month was his first and I would argue it’s been all downhill after that. I understand Pop has been in his ear the whole time but if that was swaying Mitch’s decision making to this degree then that can only be considered a negative towards Mitch’s case to have the job permanently. Ime wouldn’t let someone coach by proxy through him as interim coach or not.
Unfortunately for all, Mitch likely has the job since the FO likely would consider him "en led" to a training camp and some input on the decision making for the roster construction etc (provided Pop truly does retire as head coach).
I expect him to last somewhere between 1/2 and 1 and 1/2 seasons (as head coach).
Ime practically dropped into the Spurs' lap, and they let Houston grab him. They'll hate that decision for a long time.
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