Some award-winning quotes from Sam prior to tonight’s game against the Heat:
“Hey, Winning is hard even when you’re healthy, winning is VERY hard when you’re not”
Okayyy, so um, if it’s hard to win when your team is healthy…and being healthy is considered the norm, deductive logic then says this must be true:
It is easier to lose than win.
(when Sam Mitchell is your head coach)
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On the 0-5 road trip: “Hey, we just didnt score enough…”
By the numbers, the Raptors’ sieve like defense conceded 117, 117, 137, 106 and 96 points respectively on the road-trip….and scoring was the problem?
(For the record, the Raps averaged 99.6 PPG on the trip, only 0.7 below their season average.)
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“We just didn’t get enough guys who played well…every team is going to have a stretch of 5 to 6 games where they won’t play well”
Understood. Wait, what???
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“I really admire what Pat Riley has done this year…he’s got a young team, you play for 2 things…no, 3 things: Pride, Playoffs, or a job next year. And he’s got those young guys playing for a job.”
An otherwise acceptable quote, except that when you’re on a 5 game losing streak, it might be a good idea not to voice your admiration for another coach whose team is 12-54. Unless you wanted to set the bar pretty low. So low, Muggsy couldn’t limbo underneath it.
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Suprisingly Brave Reporter: “Well its one thing to lose games, but to not be in the games at all, can one say…”
Bristling Interrupting Sam: “Well did you watch the games? with 7 minutes to go, we took the lead…I would argue ANGRILY that we did have a chance…. the Laker game we got back within 3…Denver we just got beat…Sacramento we had a chance…Utah we were in it. I’m not making excuses…but when Cleveland lost Lebron early…”
Phrased like that, a remarkably cogent point. Sorry for alluding to the opposite, Coach of the Year.
March 20th, 2008 at 7:18 pm
Samspeak, is sort of like Newspeak from 1984 which is described as “the only language in the world whose vocabulary gets smaller every year.” In Sam’s case the concepts keep getting smaller, and more misguided, with every interview.