The efforts of the San Antonio Spurs coaching staff to retrain Jeremy Sochan to serve as a point guard have returned opposite results. Promising performances have been followed by much more discreet ones, which has directly affected the player’s mood and confidence. For now, those from Texas will not give up on his experiment and Sochan has shown himself more than willing to learn, although he has recognized the difficulty of this transition.
The 20-year-old forward admits that “it will be a process” to adapt to the new position and shared that he has been receiving advice from the starting point guard last season, Tre Jones.
“There have been times where I thought, ‘Hey, I don’t want to.’ It’s like, ‘fuck this,’ to be honest,” the player acknowledged to the media. ESPN. «There are times when I don’t have confidence. But there are also others that we trust and just focus on working hard. Knowing that coaches and players trust me helps me.”
In this transition period, the Spurs did not ask Sochan to watch videos of any other point guard, as they want him to act according to his own characteristics, instincts and conception of the game. “He can’t play like Chris Paul or John Stockton,” declared Gregg Popovich. “He just has to be Jeremy.”
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Taylor Jenkins, current coach of the Grizzlies who met with Popovich in San Antonio between 2007 and 2013, acknowledged that his team “studied” Sochan before the 2022 draft, whom he defined as a “Swiss army knife” with the ability to create plays . So Jenkins isn’t surprised that Popovich is experimenting with Sochan.
“When you’ve been around Pop, competing against Pop, you know he’s very open-minded about trying a lot of different things,” Jenkins said. “He has tried many things: large quintets, small quintets, emphasizing the triple, painting, looking for a faster, slower rhythm,… It is no surprise.”
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2023-11-20 21:00:00
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