Player The Methodical Meritocracy of Maestro Mitch Johnson and his Many Minions

[Area 51.247]

Actually I feel the opposite. Bringing in a Malone or someone with a lot of HC experience probably would mean a coach that had his system and his ways. That might have not worked with the completely new unknown talent that is Wembanyama. As long as Mitch is flexible in how to use Wemby and is able to manage the egos and personalities in the locker room he'll do well. The worst thing for this young talented team is a coach that will be too rigid and try to make them something they are not. With Mitch they get a coach that can grow, adapt, and overcome with them.

Wasn't Mitch the assistant coach with the responsibility to warm Victor up before games and practices from his first year in the league?

Didn't he keep that role last year after assuming the interim head coach position?

He might well have the most influential personal relationship for working with Victor in the Spurs hierarchy now. Why risk that?

 

[Fabbs]

This is now 2 turds (entirely winnable games that were turned into L's) that i put a significant part on Mitchs bad strategy.
Fox needing to be pulled could be seen by Mr. Hensworth the 7th grade maintenance man and part time bb coach.

Say something to corrupt POS Scott Foster and his two buddies. It's not going to change their corruption but FFS say something.
Watching Curry get his vag massaged and Victor getting bumped around was pure BS.

 

[RC_Drunkford]

I thought Mike Brown would've been a smarter gamble.

He knows the house
He's a defensive-minded coach (key to win)
He knows and has good relation with Fox
He was available

He made a lot of sense and even if he failed it would've been "acceptable"

Micth has too many red flags to me. I don't know him personally, hence the "I hope I'm wrong", he could very well be an exception .... that confirms the rule (^^), in the end

Mike Brown the guy that was switching every pick & roll when trying to defend Wemby. Hell no

 

[RC_Drunkford]

Actually I feel the opposite. Bringing in a Malone or someone with a lot of HC experience probably would mean a coach that had his system and his ways. That might have not worked with the completely new unknown talent that is Wembanyama. As long as Mitch is flexible in how to use Wemby and is able to manage the egos and personalities in the locker room he'll do well. The worst thing for this young talented team is a coach that will be too rigid and try to make them something they are not. With Mitch they get a coach that can grow, adapt, and overcome with them.

Malone clashed with the Nuggets GM. Spurs wouldn't want a coach that doesn't want the players Brian Wright brings him. I think that plays a big part. The FO and the coaching staff have to be on the same page.

 

[Shmurs]

I don’t know how complicit Malone was in jokic losing his toys from the Championship run and replacing them with shitty parts.

If he was…yeah I don’t want him.

If he wasn’t…he’s the most recent coach to win a chip with a gifted point center and experienced prolonged success for years leading up to the title. I like that better than “observed an old man ruining multiple seasons”

 

[RC_Drunkford]

I don’t know how complicit Malone was in jokic losing his toys from the Championship run and replacing them with shitty parts.

If he was…yeah I don’t want him.

If he wasn’t…he’s the most recent coach to win a chip with a gifted point center and experienced prolonged success for years leading up to the title. I like that better than “observed an old man ruining multiple seasons”

Malone didn't play any of Denver's draft picks. He should've tried to develop role players during the season. Kinda like Pop did back then with Jonathon Simmons and Kyle Anderson, where one got rotation minutes as the 10th man. Instead Malone parked them on the bench and never played them. That's on him.

 

[Ice009]

yes exactly.. Spurs allow 34 3s per game (4th best in the league) and opponents convert near 39,7% (worst in the league)... OKC in comparaison allow 40 3s per game and opponents convert 37,3%

I think the circumstances are different. I think against OKC, teams are trying to catch back up/not get blown out, and they're shooting those threes under more pressure. Against the Spurs, I think the 3s are a more quality shot, and teams are happy to shoot threes as it's a better shot for them than trying to challenge Victor inside. When Victor isn't on the court, then they can drive the lane and score inside, or if that is cut off, kick out for some open 3s.

Malone didn't play any of Denver's draft picks. He should've tried to develop role players during the season. Kinda like Pop did back then with Jonathon Simmons and Kyle Anderson, where one got rotation minutes as the 10th man. Instead Malone parked them on the bench and never played them. That's on him.

Malone was my first choice until all the stuff I heard about him. Squabbling with the GM (thinking stuff like the shooting coach was a spy for the GM), not playing the youth and developing them, he dropped right off my list after that stuff started coming out. I really liked his attitude and aggression, but it seems he was creating a bad environment for his players and team.

Next would have been Jenkins as I thought he was an up and coming coach, and then maybe Mike Brown was also someone I would have been OK with. A lot of people talk shit about Brown, but he's taken teams deep in the playoffs, coached one of them with a young superstar (Lebron) so he has an idea of what that is like, and has been an assistant on championship teams (Spurs, Warriors).

 

[NotoriousHOP]

Malone clashed with the Nuggets GM. Spurs wouldn't want a coach that doesn't want the players Brian Wright brings him. I think that plays a big part. The FO and the coaching staff have to be on the same page.

Malone's beef was that the Nuggets had championship talent and aspirations but ownership didn't want to pay to keep them together. They bled out critical role players and just figured Jokic would make up for it, and they were almost right, but the front office continued to give Malone significantly lesser players than they were replacing. It wasn't simply that he didn't like the players the front office was giving him. I'd be pissed too.

 

[Fabbs]

Wemby a response on reffing in the post presser.
(I didn't hear one peep out of Mitch.)

Media asked Vic about a hypothetical whereupon no one but he between Curry up top and the rim:

Victor: "I’d stop the three-point shot no matter what, because he’s someone I can easily catch up to at the rim, and that’s exactly what I did during this game. They called a foul on me, but I don’t think there was one. Also, I’d make sure to deny the step-back to the left."

 

[Ice009]

Yeah, that happened too. They kept losing key pieces/players and replacing them with worse ones. I can see how he'd be upset about that.