I agree it hasn’t gone well. However, Sochan has been vastly improved over the last 5 games. We will see if that incremental progress holds up throughout the rest of the season, but he IS getting much better.
Couple of things this article doesn’t mention, the Spurs O has done a consistently good job of getting people open (We are about middle of the pack for getting open and wide open shots). We shoot horribly on those shots.
Additionally, for all the angst about getting people in good positions, we still are #3 in assists.
Our problems have been hitting open shots and way too many turnovers, as well as dumb mistakes in the clutch, which has been a team wide issue. The “this is a Jeremy problem” is grossly overstated. He hasn’t been amazing, but considering Tre is a -15 NetRTG in the last two weeks and Jeremy is a -4 NetRTG, just blaming Jeremy is a stupid perspective.
Thank kind sir, this makes feel that much better about the whole situation.
Something that has also been overlooked is the level of difficulty the Spurs schedule has been so far. They have one of the hardest schedules in the league. It’s basically trying to revamp their entire system with young and inexperienced players on hard mode
It’s been rough. But We have the toxic media and nephew eyes on us so much (cuz of Victor.) and that’s really amplifying the BS takes. We were gonna suck, yes this makes it harder to watch, but I trust in the Spurs long term vision more than my own causal fan knowledge. I love Jeremy’s ethic and spirit. Yeah, he shows disappointment too, but I think he’s cut from the right cloth to be coachable and follow Pop’s ideas all the way.
What I don’t like about point Sochan is whenever Wemby is on a break wide open at the basket and Sochan ignores/doesn’t see it and immediately goes into a set.
I’d like to see at least a little improvement on awareness whenever we aren’t running a set play. I hope this experiment works out.