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

ace3g said:
pic of Mitch and bio father John Johnson Seattle Supersonics including a Chip in 79
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Mom Jenny Redman was a tennis player at U Washington and ended up marrying a UW football player who went on to 9 pro seasons Rick Redman.
Can't find much on her at all and to the point, a pic of her.
 
The Spurs never should have put Mitch in position to take over. Pop, with his oversized ego, made sure his protégé was a distorted reflection of himself. Now we’ve got this Dunning-Kruger/Peter Principle head coach learning on the job how to run a pick-and-roll with Fox and Wemby, and we still need to bring in a specialist just to fix the defense. The idea that I’m suggesting anything the Spurs might actually do is laughable.

I see myself as a hammer of undeniable truths, not someone caught up in the wishful thinking that often takes over here, nor trying to make my opinions seem superior to any particular commenter’s post. Like the one I mentioned earlier, who seems to enjoy lurking in The Trade thread, tossing out what he probably thinks are clever one-liners or smug comebacks. If I wanted to do that, I’d save it for a Game Grades post about the team or a game thread, which leans more toward satire than straight truth. I even had one commenter get bent out of shape over what was basically just a throwaway one-liner in a game thread.

If you want cold hard truths BOMBS that's @Fabbs job and I would never attempt to make post like him @Raven_
 
He's not helping his players out in the first game of a back to back. Running lineups out there again that let the Jazz back in the game just like last time, again.
 
I'm done with him.
There's just no point, he's completely out of his depth.
We got the game in control, need to finish the job and he trots out a Harper/Castle/Keldon/Bryant/Kornet lineup.

The only reason why our post-Christmas slide has stopped was Wemby's comeback and MVP level play.
Other than that, it's been just more of the same shit.

Zero accountability.
Castle taking stepback 3s early in the clock at will, just gtfo.
 
Yeah, what he said

Did ya really want him to use a time out in the last minute to draw up a play?
He clearly is getting to know his limitations.
Or wasn't gonna do it after being mocked by KD

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Even Bob Hill says, what the fuck!

Off-season head coach hiring will be on hold until the wait and see if Mitch is fired is over.
 
LeBowen said:
I'm done with him.
There's just no point, he's completely out of his depth.
We got the game in control, need to finish the job and he trots out a Harper/Castle/Keldon/Bryant/Kornet lineup.

The only reason why our post-Christmas slide has stopped was Wemby's comeback and MVP level play.
Other than that, it's been just more of the same shit.

Zero accountability.
Castle taking stepback 3s early in the clock at will, just gtfo.
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Yeah, that was a head-scratcher for me as well. You must really hate shooting in order to think this is a good lineup in NBA's 2025/2026 landscape.
 
This is giving me vibes from last season, where in every postgame interview after a loss it was Mitch saying "I think we lacked physicality" and yet nothing changed as the season went on. By the way we still lack physicality, cause the story of these losses is that teams start to get more physical with us in the second half and we don't know how to respond.

Mitch's newest postgame excuse is "we didn't execute well" which he now brings up everytime this team loses a game. They just couldn't execute these super complicated DHOs at the top of the key that he drew up.

What's funny to me is his focus on holding on to timeouts. Coaches challenge? Nah, I could lose a timeout. Opponent goes on a run, maybe draw up a play to stop the bleeding? Nah I might need my timeouts in the last 30 seconds. Then proceeds to not use those at all because the game went out of hand.
 
RC_Drunkford said:
This is giving me vibes from last season, where in every postgame interview after a loss it was Mitch saying "I think we lacked physicality" and yet nothing changed as the season went on. By the way we still lack physicality, cause the story of these losses is that teams start to get more physical with us in the second half and we don't know how to respond.

Mitch's newest postgame excuse is "we didn't execute well" which he now brings up everytime this team loses a game. They just couldn't execute these super complicated DHOs at the top of the key that he drew up.

What's funny to me is his focus on holding on to timeouts. Coaches challenge? Nah, I could lose a timeout. Opponent goes on a run, maybe draw up a play to stop the bleeding? Nah I might need my timeouts in the last 30 seconds. Then proceeds to not use those at all because the game went out of hand.
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Hard to have physicality when you're often playing 3pg 1sf and 1 skinny center
 
CrustyCoastBendFan said:
Yeah, what he said

Did ya really want him to use a time out in the last minute to draw up a play?
He clearly is getting to know his limitations.
Or wasn't gonna do it after being mocked by KD

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When did KD mock him? I guess I missed that.
 
btw has anybody else heard Grant Hill say that "the Spurs don't really run offense, they just drive and kick" on the peacock broadcast?
 
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btw has anybody else heard Grant Hill say that "the Spurs don't really run offense, they just drive and kick" on the peacock broadcast?
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Nah, didn't see it. That's cool G-Hill said that. I watched the Mr. 100% broadcast.
 
The learning curve incline is getting steeper for everyone on the Spurs, coaches included. I will say, at least in general, rebounding and defense are not the problem. Offense is the issue, or, lack thereof. That's Mitch's domain from what I understand. He seemed to tighten up after Durant mocked him and that Houston crowd was in a frenzy. His body language is not inspiring, to say the least. The frozen, arms crossed common pose seems like a dude trying to regulate his nervous system, not, a leader asking a team to follow him into battle. Will Hardy really has the strong leader vibes, Tiago might be a quieter version of that. I always wondered why the Spurs coaching staff got whittled down to just 3 assistants in Pop's final few years. That would've been the time to expand it. Oh, well. Spurs gonna Spur, even amidst the season of the most radical changes in at least a decade.
 
It probably got whittled down because they weren't looking to win, so maybe they wanted to save some money.

What is the KD mocking Mitch thing? I missed it.
 
I like Mitch and I still hope he will be that guy but I do have my concerns of him being a top tier coach. Maybe I'm wrong but he seems a bit passive at times and seems to struggle with in game coaching decisions. He's very smart and a cool person and seems that the team loves him though so I don't know.

He's probably a great coach out of game like at practices and such but I can only go by what they show of him on TV.

I think the playoffs will be the true test on seeing what kind of coach he really is under all the pressure.

The way this team continues to lose big leads does bring alot of these things into question though.
 
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Unseen said:
I like Mitch and I still hope he will be that guy but I do have my concerns of him being a top tier coach. Maybe I'm wrong but he seems a bit passive at times and seems to struggle with in game coaching decisions. He's very smart and a cool person and seems that the team loves him though so I don't know.
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We don't even need him to be a top tier coach, just a common sense coach that's going to be able to set the team up around his best players.
It's not like he has to deal with some critical defensive flaws like most other coaches do.
 
Ice009 said:
When did KD mock him? I guess I missed that.
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When he looked at mitch and made the Time out Gesturer after Mitch let the lead we're all talking about melt to like 6 points. The Announcers even mentioned how KD like to Trash Talk, even Mitch Johnson. Specifically, after making a bounce pass to Clint Cappella who dunked making, it 86 92. So I guess the Announcers kinda Clowned Mitch too.

Listen, I know a lot of you commenters are beside yourselves about me posting what I do. Some have built up grudges over the years, especially in this community we’ve all been part of for decades. And then there are those who respond by giving me orders to do this, that, or the other..."chill".

Fact is this mitch being the head coach is a commentary about poppovich and the Spurs Organization.

A coach who hadn’t won in years was exposed for relying on talent just like everyone else in sports. An organization was in steep decline, even caught up in a scandal like Primo. This once-proud team had become so rotten it earned three consecutive top-four picks in the NBA draft yet arrogantly chose a coach from within its own organizational rot to lead an unprecedented collection of talent.

Several things can be possible at once.

The coaching staff was rottener than a box of month-old eggs left out on a shipping dock, yet the GM managed to select three exceptional prospects in Victor, Stephone, and Harper. Keldon and Vessels’ trajectories would end up meshing with those talents due to their own unique profiles regardless, while De’Aaron Foxx and Kornet were great acquisitions who had been developed entirely outside the organization.

We've all watched and mocked and joked about the 76rs process, and to an extent this is what happened here. The same "Process" took place, they even used that term themselves. "Not skipping steps"

This also happened in New England with the Patriots in the NFL. The difference was that their owner and GM were smart enough to pivot when things were going badly and managed to right the ship. Here, the same organizational arrogance that chose Mitch without conducting an extensive coaching search isn’t going to make that happen with this guy.

Either Wemby has to want Mitch gone, and if that happens, he might as well just leave the Spurs, or Mitch has to get caught up in some situation like Eme Udoka did in Boston.

Were stuck with Mitch for the foreseeable future.

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CrustyCoastBendFan said:
When he looked at mitch and made the Time out Gesturer after Mitch let the lead we're all talking about melt to like 6 points. The Announcers even mentioned how KD like to Trash Talk, even Mitch Johnson. Specifically, after making a bounce pass to Clint Cappella who dunked making, it 86 92. So I guess the Announcers kinda Clowned Mitch too.
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I watched the Spurs broadcast as there was an option on NBALP to choose it. I don't think they pointed it out. I just loaded up the game and went with the NBC one and saw it. Thanks for pointing out where it was.
 
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