Mitch Expects More From Byron And Himself

Popovich is the anti-Byron.

And I agree with Weezy about Mitch saying Byron needs to keep shuffling and searching. That is not the answer and it is depressing to hear frankly.

 

I think he threw some shade at Byron but at the same time, his solution at the very end was disturbing because it will encourage Byron to keep shuffling lineups mindlessly with no real plan in place.

 

3 wins, Mitch....3 wins..you've played 20 games..my football team has played 12 and they have more wins

 

Remember summer league though? We were all WTF with what Madsen was running. And frankly that was the first sign of all the losing coming our way.

It's easy to say Mark was running Byron's system but I don't know that Mark would implement something drastically better. He'd be an upgrade over the dumb ape, that's for sure though. If he needs to be the stop-gap, so be it. I don't want us winning too many games anyways now that we're in the Ben Simmons sweepstakes.

 

Yea Madsen as a replacement won't be good...at all. I saw what he did in Summer League and it was on Byron levels of bad, including his press conferences where he oddly referred to every player by full name.

 

You scrap whatever Byron has...you run pick in roll basketball and some of the successful sets you've had out of the Triangle that provided god spacing and good results. Keep it simple

 

Hey Byron, take note of Mitch manning up and taking partial blame for your steaming pile of crap coaching job.

Take notes and do the same for the team you coach can place blame around every corner except where it belongs.

 

Byron would find a way to blame the gatorade guy before himself.

 

FWIW, I think when Kobe was given that contract extension and Byron took the job, both the FO and Byron were expecting a much healthier and productive Kobe on the court. Byron has always relied on a star to carry him, and I think he thought he was going to get the Kobe from 3 years ago as opposed to the Kobe we've seen the last 2-3 seasons. The Front Office knew that a healthier Kobe would carry a decent squad to respectability, but that just hasn't happened.

Though, I still believe with an average coach, we'd have 4-5 more wins at the very least...

 

ok then fire him

 

I don't understand how anyone could've reasonably expected Kobe to play a star level after that horrific injury. That's an injury that has ended so many great and all time great careers. Dominque, Isiah, Shaq, Chuck, and Billups even though he's certainly not an all time great but just goes to show you. We asked a 34 year old to carry us in 2012-2013 and he carried us to the playoffs and we saw what happened. I can't believe Byron is that delusional to think Kobe was gonna be the same. As much as I love Kobe I knew it was over then. You don't bounce back with that especially with in the incredible amount of wear and tear already on that body.

 

Haha mine has four and is still somehow in the thick of things in their God awful division.

 

If you go back 2 seasons ago, after the injury, pay attention to Mitch and Byron's rhetoric: I remember Mitch saying things like 'we still feel like Kobe can give us '30 points a night if we need it or Byron saying, 'I'm just glad we have number 24 out there.' Then, he proceeds to run him into the ground. Going into this season there was a lot more uncertainty and rightfully so; however, nobody thought Kobe would be worse than last season. At least, I didn't think he would be...

 

Is Mitch charging up the Magic Wand to expel us of our version of Lord Vordermort??? This pleases me...