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Making sense of Sam Mitchell’s performance

But that hasn’t stopped Wolves fans from getting impatient. The glimpses that this squad has shown have been promising enough that Mitchell‘s coaching style, rotations, and philosophies have been broken down and torn apart to the nth degree.

Mitchell, winner of the 2006-07 NBA Coach of the Year award, is certainly not above reproach. But let’s be sure to parse the real from the fake and the overblown from any potentially deserved vitriol.

The Good

Let’s start by acknowledging that just because a team has lost a few big leads and lost some close games, it isn’t a clear indictment of the head coach and a sign that he’s the worst coach in the NBA.