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Looks like Johnson is a great coach when Wemby is playing. Not so much otherwise.
Looks like Johnson is a great coach when Wemby is playing. Not so much otherwise.
Imagine we had Ime...
(I'd pay anything to get him)
That's just called being a successful NBA coach. The old man's career was literally built on the shoulders of Tim Duncan tbh.
he's just an awful coach, maybe not in general, but he seems to need to relearn everything we already know.
I'm not a fan from the start, however...
He's supposed to go through that stage, making mistakes and facing adversity. It's now that we're going to see what he's made of, the decisions he makes and the way he manages etc
He might fail (I have very low hopes tbh) but that's when (future) great coaches reveal themselves. So let's wait and see on a longer period and judge him then.
Not enough games and too many key players missing that are usually central to the team's game plan and hide the deficiencies of the roster. (When Champ is your best player...smh lol)
Mitch has been trying everything since he took over. A lot of things didn't work because our roster sucks, but I genuinely wonder what do you guys think a coach can do with our roster when Wemby sits?
Collins is not an NBA player anymore, Bassey never was. Neither of them can stay on the floor because of foul trouble.
He tried a small lineup, can't work against good bigs.
The entire team crumbles not because Wemby isn't playing, but because we don't have another NBA level big. We just can't play like this unless we're playing against a team that also doesn't have actual bigs and we shoot lights out.
well for starters starting sochan and vassell seems a given, since they are our two min building blocks next to wemby. Benching barnes would be another, and focusing on D would be another.
I'm sure they'll be back in the lineup soon, I think Mitch's decision to not change the starting lineup during a winstreak was logical.
CP3/Devin/Champ/Jeremy/Wemby should be our best lineup on paper, with Castle and Barnes as two main bench pieces.
We can't focus on D without a rim protector. It just doesn't work in modern NBA. We were horrible last night and still scored 113 on Kings just because they don't have a rim protector.
i think he's overplaying cp3 and barnes because he lacks a spine. As a result Castle is overplaying the 2 spot at which he's useless.
Well, Castle has been playing a lot of minutes as the primary ballhandler since Tre went down again.
He's overplaying CP3 because this team is still really low IQ.
Other than Castle who's just a rookie, which player who gets to create with the ball in his hands has at least above average IQ?
uh... nobody of course.. he can play with blake and malaki that actually need him, by your account.
I got no idea what you're trying to say here.
If you want me to explain it better, I think that just CP3, Wemby and Barnes have high enough IQ to actually compete right now.
Devin, Champ and Jeremy are good enough as long as they're not tasked with too much, but just stick to their roles.
Castle is a rookie, but already looks better in IQ regard than anyone except CP3.
Others are just charity cases and can't stay on the roster long-term in any capacity other than maybe being third stringers.
It's hard to coach a bunch of players who don't understand and get lost as soon as they have to step out of their strictly defined tasks.
That's what we got on our roster. That's why CP3 plays so much.
Mitch is okay. I just don’t like a coach outside of the “ Spurs Culture” who’d be easily be pressured to Win Now to keep his job, at the expense of playing Wemby into the ground. I think Mitch as interim coach still takes a lot of orders from PATFO on the direction of the team.
if by your assessment, cp3 and castle are the only players with iq, why would you play them together..
The most important player's development for the Spurs's future is Sochan's.
It's the area I'm waiting to see real improvements, as much from the player than from Mitch's management and decisions.
We already know who we have and what to expect with the rest of the roster
One (more) argument that makes me doubts on Mitch, migh be a cliche, but ends up being true most of the time, is that a team alwasy ends up at the image of their coach.
That's why I believed the rockettes would succeed already last season, bc they hired Ime.
Mitch could even be a genius, he'll carry his inexperience as a coach and as a man, and it will impact the team for a long period until he's grown off of his limitations.
Now I'd love Mitch to prove me wrong, of course.
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Probably nothing. DEN can't even do it on a second apron team. Although the Zollins + starters was net neutral last year post all star break.
It was all rainbows and unicorns a few weeks ago when Castle and Barnes were playing well. They aren't shooting as well now. Add in Sochan back who can't shoot, and Devin who is trying to stay healthy and find his best role. I don't think Silky is suddenly worse. I think he's still trying things to see what works, which is still better than Pop only making changes after 20 game increments or whatever.
These last two losses aren't on the offense. Giving up 139 and 140, even without Wemby, is beyond horrible.
I think this comes down to the fact that you can't really start Sochan until you start Vassell (in place of Castle). Sochan and Castle can't really co-exist in an effective 5-man lineup right now. So the problem is that Vassell can't even play more than a handful of consecutive games. Until he can, you're kind of stuck.
Hmmm ... Castle is one of the only guys who came to play ...
17 points in 13 minutes ...
Everyone else exhausted or ass stinking trash ....
Better leave on Castle on the bench!
Only the worst of the worst coaches like Boylen are capable of that.
Yeah that was bad. Castle is clearly needed in certain spots especially when Paul is clearly gassed. Instead you end up putting it in the hands of guys like Champegnie to bring the ball up down the stretch. Bad coaching.
Mitch has been good, but tonight reeked of a late-stage Pop job.
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