Minneapolis Star Tribune: Mitchell a man with a plan

[polo007]

http://www.startribune.com/sports/wolves/15122431.html

Sam Mitchell has traveled far from that steamy summer day long ago, when he signed a free-agent contract on Timberwolves General Manager Billy McKinney's back inside a little San Antonio gym.

A European-league exile, he unexpectedly survived 13 years in the NBA by his grit and character. On an expansion team loaded with characters, he was something of a renaissance man, able one moment to expound upon that year's beaujolais nouveau wine crop from France, willing to exchange in some playground trash-talk straight from a Hollywood movie script with a teammate the next.

Today, in his suit and spectacles, he stands so professionally, almost professorially on the sidelines, directing a promising Toronto Raptors team thick with three-point shooters, foreign players and depleting injuries to T.J. Ford and Jorge Garbajosa.

It's a strange sight for anyone who knew him way back when.

His coaching experience began when he played. After trading him to Indiana, the Wolves brought him back in 1995 to mentor a promising draft pick named Kevin Garnett for his first seven NBA seasons.

Now, Mitchell, in his fourth year as Raptors coach, faces Garnett four times a year in the Eastern Conference, plus potentially the playoffs.

[HighOctane]

I don't understand in this article "The plan" that Mitchell has.

[PapeSowish]

Isn't it obvious? Juan Dixon guarding KG in the playoffs!!! Genius.

[inrapscity]

so what's the plan? lol.

[jaymeister15]

clearly it's such a good plan that it has to be kept secret, so nobody steals it

[galeon110]

I'm guessing the article's trying to say he's a great mentor to the players on our team? It says he mentored KG so it's probably trying to say that Smitch is a great mentor and that he'll be able to develop our players into players similar to KG

[Rapsalot]

Good plan for Sam. A plan for D not so sure. A plan for a very simple O yes indeed.

[ponder276]

http://www.startribune.com/sports/wolves/15122431.html

Sam Mitchell has traveled far from that steamy summer day long ago, when he signed a free-agent contract on Timberwolves General Manager Billy McKinney's back inside a little San Antonio gym.

A European-league exile, he unexpectedly survived 13 years in the NBA by his grit and character. On an expansion team loaded with characters, he was something of a renaissance man, able one moment to expound upon that year's beaujolais nouveau wine crop from France, willing to exchange in some playground trash-talk straight from a Hollywood movie script with a teammate the next.

Today, in his suit and spectacles, he stands so professionally, almost professorially on the sidelines, directing a promising Toronto Raptors team thick with three-point shooters, foreign players and depleting injuries to T.J. Ford and Jorge Garbajosa.

It's a strange sight for anyone who knew him way back when.

His coaching experience began when he played. After trading him to Indiana, the Wolves brought him back in 1995 to mentor a promising draft pick named Kevin Garnett for his first seven NBA seasons.

Now, Mitchell, in his fourth year as Raptors coach, faces Garnett four times a year in the Eastern Conference, plus potentially the playoffs.

[Zebsterama]

Isn't it obvious? Juan Dixon guarding KG in the playoffs!!! Genius.

[Alepphe]

what s the plan?

[HumbleBumbleBee]

The plan:

Get KG to the east

Let Boston beat us 3 out of 4 times

Boston goes deep into the playoffs (finals)

Boston cant win against a strong western conference team (insert team)

KG figures he won't win in Boston....

KG demands a trade to Toronto, to play for....the SMITCH!

[HighOctane]

This thread can thrive if everyone posts a theory on Mitchell's "plan."

[ldnk]

He told Bargnani to suck for the first half of the year so that he will be great in the playoffs and no-one will try and guard him.

[That Other Guy]

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Professorially indeed.

[johnn_19]

The plan was to become a head coach in the NBA and coach the players his GM provided to the best of his own and their abilities. That seems pretty obviously the intent of the article.

[Cafguy]

The plan is that commercial from Investors Group.

[theonlyeastcoastrapsfan]

I remember the 100 shats plan, followed by- "him dropping this jem of self deprecation - "sooner or later common sense has to kick in."

[Hank_Scorpio]

The plan was to become a head coach in the NBA and coach the players his GM provided to the best of his own and their abilities. That seems pretty obviously the intent of the article.

Who are you and what are you doing here?

Your use of reason and intelligence frightens me.

If you want to fit in here, you need to be more of a blowhard and spout off more idiotic arguments that cannot be defended - but then you have to defend them with all your might.

Otherwise, you can take your smarts and go somewhere where they will be more appreciated, cuz it aint here.

[HumbleBumbleBee]

Smitches plan:

read realgm to get new ideas

[HighOctane]

His plan:

Resides in Smitch's bible: