Spurs can’t afford to pay LeBron more than the minimum because they are paying Fox $50 million a year. Is Fox’s contract stopping Spurs from acquiring talent like LeBron, Brown, Rui, Giannis, etc?
let's say we're basically in the finals (the jazz have somehow made it to the conference finals against us) which team would you LEAST likely to face in the finals the heat, 76ers or the knicks
Wemby’s turning into the guy other fan bases love to hate. That’s what happens when a seven foot four kid with that kind of length starts blocking shots and making grown men look silly on national TV. Spurs fans, I want to know how you feel about it. Personally I think it’s a good sign. You don’t get hated on for being boring. Every villain arc in this league started with somebody being really, really good at basketball. San Antonio’s used to flying under the radar. Maybe that’s changing. Maybe it should.
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Any opinions on how they played?
First of all, I’d like to wish Billy Donovan every success in his new role. I hope everything goes well for the Spurs, but it seems our fans would rather spout nonsense than be supportive. Some Spurs fans have started making simplistic, shallow comments about Donovan who’s joined the team as an assistant coach such as ‘he’s here to take Mitch’s place’. You’ve really lost the mind.
When talking about a coach who took a team that finished 13th in its first season to second place in the Western Conference and led them to the finals, what on earth does it mean to say, ‘Donovan will take his place’? What do you want, lads? For him to win the NBA championship within three months? Even Jordan only won the title seven years later. Just because Wemby hasn’t shown any success yet, let’s go and sack him too. Mitch is a clever coach; the sort who can make tactical adjustments during a match. It’s very hard to find a coach like that in the NBA. Show the man a bit of respect. As a Spurs fan, I want him to stay with us.
Please show this man a bit of respect.
I'm torn because if he plays in the East and we make it to the Finals, we'd be playing against him. And that low-key freaks me out.
Out here in the West, we've got the Lakers, Golden State, and OKC. That's already stressing me out just thinking about having to get past them.
I think LeBron is taking a backseat and doesn't expect to play much, but it's his mentoring that scares me.
Anyway, you slice it, Gregg Popovich has more total time spent coaching and learning than Mitch Johnson. An estimate on how much more experience Popovich had by the time he arrived at his first NBA Finals depending on how you count it, would be somewhere between 9 and 13 years.
Trust me, I did the math.
Mitch Johnson took an extremely young team with absolutely zero bench and took some risks as a head coach in the NBA Finals. Did they pay off? No, they didn't. The gambles that he took are the same ones that would get him massive praise had they paid off.
I'm reminded of Steve Kerr's decision to not call the timeout in that regular season game against Oklahoma City where Curry shot the half-court game-winning three. Gutsy decision that led to a historic game winner.
I'm also reminded of Steve Kerr's 3-1 loss to the 2016 Cavaliers. By y'all's logic, y'all would have had him sacked that season, then and there, because he literally blew three games in a row and led to the most unlikely NBA Finals comeback loss in the history of the sport.
Mitch Johnson is doing fine. The Spurs organization is one that takes time to develop everyone. Think about Patty Mills or Boris Diaw, who were famously overweight and not in shape by the time they first arrived in San Antonio.
Think about Manu, who was drafted so low and was seen as an afterthought and ended up becoming the greatest six man of all time.
Furthermore, by the time Pop had the Spurs in the Finals, they had two future Hall of Famers in Robinson and Duncan that gave him a cushion to help win.
Even then, the New York Knicks took Pop to seven games.
Mitch has a young and developing Wemby and motherfucking --
Harrison Barnes
Kelly Olynyk
and Mason PPlum-lee
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As the backups for Wemby, besides Luke Kornet.
No disrespect to the trio I just listed, but even they would probably agree that they're only there for veteran support and mentorship, not for NBA finals playing time against young Mitch Robinson or Karl Anthony Towns.
Shams Charania:
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Mark my words we’ll see more from this guy in the regular season. This guys looking nice but at the very least he’s a decent ball handler and play maker could definitely take the load off our current guards