Sam Mitchell
Sam Mitchell
Samuel E. Mitchell, Jr.is a former professional basketball player and coach who is currently head coach of the U.S. Virgin Islands national basketball team. He was most recently the interim head coach for the Minnesota Timberwolves of the National Basketball Association. He was also the head coach for the Toronto Raptors of the National Basketball Associationfrom 2004 to 2008. Mitchell has also done analyst work for TSN and NBA TV as well as radio work for WHAL-AM in Columbus and...
ProfessionBasketball Player
Date of Birth2 September 1963
CityColumbus, GA
It's nice. And it's even nicer that some of the free agents we have came in and had a chance to play and played well. I was happy for those guys,
We're just making mental mistakes that we're not good enough to recover from,
You learn. If you're not capable of learning year to year, you don't last long.
We're not the only 0-3 team in the NBA,
Our practices have been great, ... But mentally we have to be able to focus and carry it over at 7 o'clock on game nights.
Just handling certain situations different, being more patient,
Our young guys are playing hard and competing and we just got to get some other people to jump on board.
We can live with inexperience, guys making mistakes because of inexperience. I'm not disappointed in the effort of our guys.
I think our guys are just overwhelmed, this is a brutal way to be introduced to the NBA,
I just know how to deal with the players different now. You've got to learn as a coach, and especially first year with new players, which buttons to push, and how to push them, and when to push them.
Every week we're going to get better. Obviously our young guys need time to grow and learn how to play at this level. The most difficult thing is going to be to have patience.
If I go that route, and I haven't decided, it won't be that I'm angry, it will be that we've got to grab some people's attention,
I'm going to try to empower my guys to help teach, to help motivate, to help encourage them, to help these guys when they have a bad stretch to keep their confidence up.
The guys want to win, this is what we do and I hope people understand that. As bad as they want us to win, trust me, there's not one fan that comes to the game that wants to win more than myself and these players.