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
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.
You have to keep giving them minutes. The more minutes they get, the more comfortable they're going to be. These guys all have talent; we just have to continue to work.
You ask me how many game we're going to win, I'll tell you at the end of the season. I'll tell you in April.
But no one feels sorry for us, and we can't feel sorry for ourselves. We just have to remember these beatings and give them back some day.
We just want to go out and just play hard and play with some confidence and make some shots, and that's been a lot of our problem,
We just got beat. It's not going to get any easier, either.
Mike James is a positive player, ... He's got playoff experience, he's played for some good coaches and we're looking forward to bringing him in.
I guess I'm getting my test on patience. I'm going to be patient, but it's tough.
Right now, everyone's going to predict different teams and they should. San Antonio, Miami, those teams on paper have guys stronger. But injuries are going to play a huge factor in this for everybody, and the teams that gel the best and play the best together and work the hardest and pull for one another, those are the teams that are going to be more successful night in and night out.
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.
I can't fault the effort, but we made some mistakes. But they were mistakes because they were all trying to make a play.
We can live with inexperience, guys making mistakes because of inexperience. I'm not disappointed in the effort of our guys.
When I put him in the lineup as a small forward, I told him it was on a game-to-game basis. He assured me he wasn't going to relinquish the position.