Maybe. But Pop putting Splitter in when it was too late for it to make a difference was an absolute admission of guilt to me.
I'm looking forward to someone (I'm sure eventually) doing a deep dive on assistants who are ready for the next step. That's a space I'd be really interested in us looking at, the way teams used to poach our assistants.
Just as long as they look beyond our bench of guys who have done nothing but assist in losing for the last 6 years.
I don’t know enough to say much, other than he won two championships with the Rockets, one as an Assistant with the Celtics where he currently is, and someone on a podcast mentioned his name and suggested he’d bring ‘toughness.’
Knowing only that, I’d still want him over Pop or Mitch 100 times out of 100.
When your team is elite for 15 straight years, you're going be able to nit pick some decisions and some plays. But if you're essentially saying that we "only won 5 championships in 15 years because our coach sucked" I just question that logic. Pop's run with the Spurs was historic and rare. Trade it for any other scenario and 99 times out of 100 it's not going to be as fruitful. Try to enjoy what you had.
You have Pop actually risking dropping dead on the sidelines for one last ride on the gravy train...That's how much of a 'sure thing' Wemby is thought of despite this clot scare
Pop is a great coach and he deserves to be celebrated for everything he has done for Spurs during three decades. Nobody is perfect and he has, off course, made some mistakes but the overall picture has been amazing.
Getting a head coach for next season is the first thing to do in the off-season for Spurs. Ideally, it should be done before the draft lottery in mid may. When Spurs' FO will talk with Draft prospect, it would just be better if they can who the coach will be and what kind of basketball Spurs will play.
Pop just wants to prove he can win without Tim, even if he has to die tryin
Pop needs to stop holding the franchise hostage with this "will he return?" bull and announce his retirement so we can move on and begin looking for an actual coach in the summer.
sucks that Pop couldnt finish coaching on his own terms but its time to face reality. its selfish to continue to leave the franchise in limbo. make the announcement and let's start looking for a real coach
This. Absolutely critical that they land a new HC prior to the draft.
Ideally, the Spurs will have decided which way they are going before the season ends, so that as soon as the final buzzer sounds versus Toronto in the season finale, the Spurs are in a position to go after their preferred candidate. What the Spurs don't want to happen is for the decision to hire or not hire a new coach to drag on into the offseason while they miss out on preferred candidates.
While I'm not exactly full of never ending trust for this FO, I do trust that they know this and will have made this decision by the time the season ends.
The only caveat to this will be that if Becky is their preferred candidate, it's probably best to get that hammered out now. I don't think Becky is the kind of person who would want to leave the Aces in a bad spot, so if she's going to come to the Spurs then it should probably be worked out with as much advance notice as possible. WNBA Training Camp opens just a few weeks after our season finale versus Toronto.
bring in Hurley, reunite him with Castle, and draft his boy McNeeley
I totally expect the top candidates to be Mike Brown and Monty Williams
Man I ain't taking McNeeley #1. Bring in Hurley, draft Flagg to fill that backup C role, then Evin & Kelon for Durant, and finish the summer off strong with Bonner & Blair for Naz.
So... Tony has been travelling a lot with the team as of late, and is reported to be in Houston tonight with the team again.
Why do we think that is? Just love Spurs basketball? Misses Rodeo Road Trips?
Don't you put that evil on me Ricky Bobby!I totally expect the top candidates to be Mike Brown and Monty Williams
Anyone on the team with a hotwife like Erin Barry?
RC: "We missed out on Ime Udoka... who do we know like him?"
Pop: "Tony Parker..."
Brian Wright: "I don't think that's what RC meant, but let's roll with it"
Dunno. I asked this in the game thread last game. I thought maybe Sean or Jacob might have mentioned during one of the previous games why he was there, and that someone watched it/heard heard why and could relay the reason, but it doesn't seem like it was ever mentioned by Sean or Jacob?
I don’t think the Spurs bring in someone for the “outside”. It will be someone from the “Spurs Family”.
I’m also not ruling out seeing Mike Brown back with the franchise in some capacity if he doesn’t end up in Houston. Ime been poaching former Spurs for his staff. I saw LMA running drill with the Rockets.
When I read those reports that Fox actually didn't want Mike Brown fired and that he was literally eating dinner at Mike Brown house after he got fired, and then Fox wanted to come to SA, I thought to myself "oh mike is definitely going to be the next coach in SA"I totally expect the top candidates to be Mike Brown and Monty Williams
I actually think nope on Monty since he essentially got Bruce Bowen fired so he could coach his sons high school team.
Wasn't she part of a lawsuit or player complaining Becky accused her of something like "getting pregnant on purpose"
If an nba job is offered to her I doubt Becky would give a about what position it put the Aces in and I doubt the Aces would have a problem with that since she instantly won them back to back les
I'm assuming that PATFO already know that Pop is not returning... but as long as they don't announce it, then all of Mitch's wins get added to Pop's career win total.
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Watching the team play this season I feel that there is a fundamental lack of direction for the overall philosophy.
There is no one thing that we can hang our hat on and say, "When the game is on the line we will lean into (this area of strength) to win it."
We are mediocre on defense, mediocre on offense, we don't shoot 3s well, we don't get to the rim well, we don't draw fouls well, ... etc etc etc.
We're just mediocre at everything.
When Pop appointment himself coach in 1996 we only won 17 games but the direction of the team was immediately obvious: We were going to play defense, e physical, and rebound.
Even if we couldn't do those things well they were the #1 emphasis for the team and you could see it on the court immediately.
Pop wouldn't play people who didn't follow that and he coached them hard even through many many loses.
That set the foundation and expectations for what we did after that when Drob and Sean returned and Timmy joined the team.
We rode incredible defense to that first le two years later.
When I watch our Spurs right now, I don't see us picking a lane.
Even before his stroke, Pop was all too happy to watch players repeatedly make mistakes that would have previously gotten guys benched and/or chewed out.
I know that the NBA and egos are different now, but a coach can still enforce a philosophy and deliver consequences and Pop had gotten out of that mode.
I have a hard time believing that a post-stroke Pop is ever going to find the fire in his belly to do what this team needs. He needs to go.
And Mitch seems like a really promising young coach, but he is too entrenched now in this quagmire and losing culture to be the solution.
We need a fresh start and we need it badly.
Bon Voyage Pop and thanks for everything Mitch, but if the Spurs bring either one of them back next year I'm going to assume we're tanking AGAIN and be calling for a front office overhaul in addition to a coaching change.
Tony Parker has been cited in Spurs games recently guys?
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