THANK GOD THE SAM MITCHELL ERA IS OVER….how many games have raptors lost in the final minutes, simply because of bad coaching. Mitchell doesn’t know how to teach a standard defence system either. Whenever watching raptor games its almost as if they have 2-3 plays max..Bosh sets high screen..J.O and bosh both set high screen for parker and kapono to curl out or bosh iso from the wings.

Colangelo I applaud you for finally doing this. That COY award gassed mitchell/the league thinking that he was something worth 4 mill+ a year.

As far as Avery Johnson, definatly not a good candidate…why? anyone who can take a Top contender/60+win team and turn them into what they are now definatly doesn’t deserve to work in the NBA.I’d put Flip in this category too, but he’s not as bad as A.J.

Jeff Van Gundy, or someone with legit playoff experience would only make sense. Raptors are no longer a rebuilding team. We got to work with what we have. New coach and a legit perimeter defender and raps are a LEGIT contender in the east at least.

Some of Sam’s best lines:

“They just made more Shatts than we did”
“We just didn’t make shatts tonight.”
“we couldn’t get our shatts to drop”
“now…guys”
“that’s why they’re world champs”
“I tell my guys all the time”
“we couldn’t make threes”
“they made threes”
“I tell my guys to box out all the time”

So long Sammy…

Later

Vince Carter.

I absolutely believe Sam Mitchell could have got more out of our personnel defensively.

Chris Bosh has the physical tools and attitude to be a great defender. He just has terrible technique. That’s coaching.

A year ago, Jamario Moon was a great defender. Today he’s terrible. That’s coaching.

Bargnani has turned into a great post defender at times this year, despite being terrible last year. That might be because he spent the summer working one-on-one someone other than Sam Mitchell. That said, whenever I see Bargnani defending the 3 and Bosh defending the 4, I want to hit someone. Bosh defends smaller players really well. Bargnani, less so.

We may not have a marquis defender at the 2, but we have a lot of bodies. If we cycled Moon, Graham, Parker, and even Kapono, with each playing in short bursts, they should be able to play very aggressive, physical, and intense defence, because foul trouble isn’t an issue and neither is exhaustion. We can throw a lot of different defensive looks at an opposing SG, to keep them off-balance. Also, if our offence had more cutting, especially with our SG running around trying to get open off screens, we could make the opposing team’s SG expend a lot of energy on defence.