Your posts, complaining about Mitch or invoking Mitch for every issue that the Spurs have or even for solutions such as Aldama is where the problem lies. It's a one-eyed fixation with making a culprit out of a bad run rather than understanding the core issue that plagues the Spurs during this bad run. Which is tied to the way the Spurs are constructed.
And who exactly should be responsible for what we've been seeing over the past month?
A bunch of young players that don't know any better?
We're still the 4th best defense over the past 15 games, meaning the effort is there.
And 24th offense. I don't think any of our players aren't interested in playing offense, it's just that they don't know what to do in a lot of situations because guard play has been terrible.
That's the core issue.
You say that I'm fixated on something while thinking getting another off the ball player would magically solve our issues.
Barnes isn't hitting his shots, but the defenders aren't sagging off him. They're guarding him more closely than they'd guard Aldama or whoever we can get at PF.
Meaning it's not a spacing issue scheme wise.
This is Wemby's team with three guards being the main complementary pieces. Spurs should be an elite paint attacking team. But they're not.
Wemby sitting at the 3pt line is far from optimal, but it does provide spacing.
And our guards still don't get to the basket like they did earlier in the season and keep settling for awful shots.
Our half-court offense is stagnant and reduced to taking turns, playing the simplest form of drive and kick.
But you'll deny it because Wemby gets hot against Markknen-less Jazz and it's a W in your book.
What accountability are you talking about? That the Spurs head coach will write a blogpost explaining where he was at fault to assuage your hurt feelings?
That the Spurs head coach is preaching to his team that they need to up their physicality and effort in order to contend in each team is as much accountability as you can expect rather than the false modesty of "I and my schemes are to be blamed". It is ironical that you call yourself knowledgeable without understanding that what coaches say to the media and how they figure out their business behind the screens.
Do you ever listen to any other coaches?
There's no need for any explanations, I just want him to say that he made mistakes in the gameplan and is working on fixing them instead of the idiotic physicality bs when he was the one that decided we'll play a lineup that's significantly smaller in 4/5 positions than the Pelicans.
If you and me were guarding Zion and Bey, Mitch would still say we lacked physicality instead of saying the personnel was wrong.
Two of the top 4 Spurs players are a rookie and a sophomore, both of them are prodigious but suffer from a shooting flaw, which will take time and effort to fix.
That's exactly my point.
We're playing Castle as if he's a 10 year veteran who's in a slump and will get out of it.
You don't force him to do the thing that has been hurting the team game in and game out.
Adjust his role, let him work out what he needs to do better in practices, give him easier matchups instead of forcing him to pound the rock while the player you just paid 200+ million sits in the corner.
As scott said, we bought a mansion and decided we won't use it.
But the other yong guard that's struggling has the shortest top pick leash I've ever seen and can't even stay in the game when he's the main reason for the momentum shift.
And their flaws are being exposed because of roster construction and some bets that have failed
Every roster has flaws, even OKC.
You don't need a perfect roster to play good basketball.
In short, we have arguably the best big man floor spacer in the league and we still can't get the offense flowing nicely with supposedly elite paint penetrators.
Only blind homers refuse to acknowledge that.
No team goes from not even making the play-in to be a contender right away.
Who said anything about contending?
We've been playing garbage basketball against the worst teams in the league for a month and there's no excuse for that.
The team had three days of rest and played their worst game of the season against the worst team in the league. At home.
As I said, give it some more time before going on a woe and moan fest that you are putting up in every post of yours.
Is anyone forcing you to read my posts? No.
Gtfo with that shit, I'm not insulting anyone or even dragging anyone into these discussions. If you don't want to read it, scroll past my posts.
You also have the ignore function.
