De’Aaron Fox on the criticism he got after game 4:
“It’s not like people have my phone number and can call me. I don’t watch those shows. It doesn’t matter. It is what it is. You can’t change it now. We’re trying to move on from that”
Did Fox make the biggest mistake in the game? Yes.
Are other players (and Mitch Johnson) responsible for this loss? Yes.
It’s easy (and quite fun) to make fun of Fox, but it was one mistake out of a plethora of blunders the Spurs that lead to them losing this game and ultimately this series…ask the Knicks during the ECF how easy it is to come back from a game like this. At the very least, you need to be clutch and Knicks have proved to be the most clutch team out there, just ask the 2023 Clutch Player of the Year
End of the day it felt like Mitch Johnson ran 0 plays the entire second half. Im honestly more annoyed watching the shot selection from Fox than that mistake, but it was just icing on the cake.
That’s the thing. They barely run plays ever. Honestly they got this far based on sheer talent. They need a better coach it take this team to the next level.
I wouldn’t blame Steve Kerr if he regretted resigning with us before seeing how the Spurs play out lol
Kerr would love the 4 Guards + Center lineup
Since when do they have a center? They have 4 guards and a 7’4” other guard.
Even better
Jimmy being played at center that one game this year was genuinely hilarious.
re-signed*
“Hey Kerr, you used to live in San Antonio before…”
My thing when fans say this is that we don’t even know what the hell a coach is doing unti “Thinking Basketball” runs through it for us. So much of coaching analysis looks like “did your scheme work” and we go from there. Every series we have to say “no adjustments” and by the time we finish typing, the coach has tried something already.
98.5% of coaching criticism in sports in generally is simple, organic, grass-fed, free-range outcome bias.
I mean that’s the nature of sports.
The Cavs analytically won the East and the Celtics shot quality banner is hanging in the rafters.
Yeah it’s straight up goofy to say something like “the Spurs don’t even run plays”. Absolutely identifies OP as a ballwatcher.
Thinking basketball is pretty great at clarifying what’s going on, but there are also a bunch of great podcasts with ball nerds, and they’ve all spoken highly of Mitch Johnson
There’s offensive designs that happen, and are supposed to continuously happen depending on where the ball is on the floor. None of that was happening down the stretch for the spurs. It was essentially bring the ball up, Wemby screen, then figure it out
Any time you take a team with no playoff.experience to the NBA Finals in your first full year as an NBA head coach, you definitely need to be fired.
BY GOD THAT’S DOC RIVERS MUSIC
Thank God, the opportunity to bring in a guy who’s failed in like 5 different cities.
I was talking with my dad and he said the first thing they should do if they lose is fire the coach. I was like but they got this far and he’s still young, he can develop into a better coach. He then said “you develop young players, you don’t ‘develop’ a head coach.”
On one hand I think it’s great that you’re watching games and talking hoops with your dad. That’s great.
But Mike Brown (the current Knicks coach) disproves your dad’s theory. He learned a ton during his time as an assistant with GSW after multiple head coaching jobs.
Doesn’t your example actually prove him right? I interpreted the dad’s comment as in you don’t “develop” while you’re the head not that a head coach can’t develop. So Mike Brown stopped being a head coach and developed as an assistant coach.
If you read it that strictly, you’re right, but I think it’s silly to attribute all of Mike Brown’s growth as a coach to GSW. I think he grew throughout his career.
I would argue a lot of coaches grow during their tenures, fans are just terrible at seeing it. Carlisle made a lot of mistakes during the Pacers 2023-24 run that he didn’t repeat last year, and he learned to enable his star PG rather than battle with them for control like he did with Rondo. Pop had success with a pretty wide array of personnel and systems and at times took time to adapt to them. Mike Malone is another guy I think improved in each job.
There are a ton of examples of this in soccer, too.
Assistant being the operative word, tho
Your dad doesnt know ball. If your dad was the gm in 2011, He wouldve listened to Lebron and fired Erik Spoelstra.
The problem with the salary cap era is you have a small window to win until max salary becomes an issue (for example former title winners like celtics and Nuggets). I don’t know if the spurs have the years and patience for the coach to get better. They have enough talent to win right now.
Im hoping Pop had a talk with mitch explaining the importance of maintaining a lead, calling timely timeouts, and running set plays. Dont fire him for one bad game. Its really about learning on the job experience. A young head coach will have growing pains and hardly ever has the extensive knowledge of a coach that is 20 years in and seen alot
I mean this is just the tip of the iceberg, it’s not just one bad game, the Spurs have shown inconsistency in holding onto leads even in the OKC series.
Why does a person with college level basketball player experience and a decade as an assistant need to be told the importance of timeouts to stop runs, and drawing up plays though?
Shouldn’t that be the bare minimum?
I mean, history is always more kind to the victor. If the Knicks lose all the shame would be going to Hart not Fox.
History is definitely not gonna be kind to the Victor
“this loser didn’t even win a championship in his third year! what an idiot!”
-History
Because he didn’t win a championship in his third year? I hate sports fans.
Anyone who has really watched Fox since he entered the league will know that 2022-23 was an outlier year. During that season, he absolutely locked in during crucial moments of games. But, for every other season including this one, you’ll see Fox make some of the laziest and short-sided plays of anyone one his team. And he will take zero accountability for his most egregious mistakes. Scapegoating Fox for all of the Spurs problems is not fair, but the spotlight will be on him regardless due to his contract and general perception as a star player on this team. His IDGAF attitude is tiresome and emblematic of how he approaches far too many games.
100%. This guys literally telling you everything you need to know about his mentality. He just doesn’t have that winning mentality in him that’s needed to excel in the final parts of the NBA playoffs. He doesn’t care and that’s a problem, not an asset, not at this level.
Now look at that classic Fox smirk as he walks away. Not giving a damn that he let down everyone around him, from his teammates, organization and fans. Btw, can I interest you in a NFT?!
I’ve been surprised how many Kings fans have seemingly been out on fox for years.
I feel like if you’ve played with Wemby & Haliburton and neither one has made you convincgly look like a true contender #2 option then it’s just not gonna be your career trajectory.
Doesn’t mean he can’t still have a great career in a smaller role, but Wemby’s co-star? No shot.
Haliburton was raw when he was with the KINGS, but very talented notheless. Honestly, Fox is too prideful which is part of his downfall. Low key though, his conidence has taken a few steps back since he knows he is no longer the alpha in San Antonio.
THIS! Yes, I watched him with the Kings and was shocked when they fired Mike Brown before they traded for Fox. Fox has never mentally matured and it is now at a point where he will not change.
He has all the talent but not the leadership. He also lack accountabiity which is weird because he gets paid to be the face of a franchise.
This implies Fox didn’t fuck up more than once. He was terrible the whole 2nd half. Multiple unforced turnovers. Missed fga.
Agreed, obviously other players took bad early clock 3s and I think Mitch could’ve gotten them pick on Alvarado a bit more. But Fox had the ball in his hands for the majority of clutch time and he had multiple bad turnovers and questionable shots down the stretch alongside an all-time bad blunder. I remember when he was running out, I thought game over and then he went for the layup. Fox should take a lot of blame.
And Wemby passed the ball of Castle’s back in game 1 during crunch time. And Wemby the star player missed two free throws at the line during crunch time in the last game. And so forth. And so on. It’s a team game, blame mostly goes to the awful coaching in the second half and not slowing the game to a crawl to manage that lead.
So what? Wemby shouldn’t have done that. He’s 22 and is the only reason they’re even in the finals. Choking in the clutch isn’t the same as what Fox did. He choked like his teammates then made the worst play in basketball and literally gave his opponents the win. There was no miscommunication. There was no real pressure. All he had to do was dribble. We expected the spurs to show their youth. Fox is better than that. He should receive the majority of the criticism. At any point he could’ve taken over. He could’ve taken initiative and driven the ball or told his team to. He could’ve not jacked up 3s himself. He could’ve taken care of the ball in the first place to avoid losing the lead. He could’ve properly ran the pick and roll with Wemby. He could’ve gotten the ball to Dylan Harper. He could’ve made a play besides the one 3 he made in the fourth. Everyone else made multiple plays in the 2nd half. Fox literally did nothing but sell.
“Best player in the world” can’t go 0-2 at the line in the biggest moment
He’s the point guard. I’d like to see him take more responsibility than this
If he made the layup it would have (probably) been the dagger for the game and everyone would be praising him.
This was a whole team loss…except Harper, that man is talented!
He makes it and we’re trashing Hart as they head back to SA 2-2
Bro had to hitchhike back to SA after the game lol
I’m thinking of Mark running down the hallway lmao
Listen RDC are some of the funniest people out there, they had it ready to go immediately
this piece of paper say… play hard??
YOUR THE REASON!!!
Mitch Johnson: 😁
and what do……. YOU DO? shit had me dying laughing man
You tubers proving they’re better writers and directors than the epstein class backed Hollywood exploitation machine every day
Nah he had to find space in the luggage area of the plane and the bus.
He got dropped off by knicks fans
I do think the Fox slander is a bit overblown. At best it was the icing on the 29 point collapse cake.
Seen many players in that situation go for the quick score… Credit OG for making a helluva play
It’s coping is what it is thinking they lost because of fox alone. Vassell had 3 points in the second half. Champagnie had 0. Wemby shot 3⁄14.
Overall shartfest by the whole team. Maybe slow down and not pull up from three every time you cross half court??
Yes Fox did make a huge mistake here, but he had a solid game otherwise
It’s just that Fox is in his “prime,” so people are more inclined to criticize him because they want to trade him. A lot of fans are blinded by the potential of Castle, Harper, and Wemby. All three have incredible upside, but they’ve also made costly mistakes, including some poor turnovers in clutch moments during Games 2 and 4.
People don’t fully appreciate everything Fox brings to the team, especially considering he’s been playing through injuries. When he was out, Castle was racking up double-digit turnovers himself, but that seems to get overlooked.
The oldest of those three is what, 22⁄23 in Wemby? They’re young af, they will make mistakes
Fox knows how to run an offense, just doesn’t know how to run around with the ball in the last seconds of a game💀
Brother his entire 4th quarter was a fart fest. It was BAD
Oh everyone’s 4th was awful. I’m saying around that, his game wasn’t terrible
Shit everyone’s 2nd half was terrible. 30 mf points for the whole team
The funny part is Fox is the only person I’ve seen getting blamed for the loss by spurs fan although Wemby was 9-25 and castle went 2-7 while champgnie heated up the net going 2-9
Fox is the overpaid vet though, and that’s the problem.
Still doesn’t change the fact they blew a 29point lead COLLECTIVELY not just Fox taking that layup but for 2,12 minute quarters where they were ALL cold let’s not forget Wemby missed 2 free throws to put them up 3 with a minute to go but sure throw Fox under then bus to save face
It was a boneheaded decision and anybody that made it would be getting killed… especially an 8 year vet. Guys missing shots happens every game. Yes 9-25 is awful. Fox’s error was a mental one, that’s why to me anyway he’s getting the brunt of it. Plus his egregious turnovers, hard to defend him in any way after that loss. Mitch Johnson is complicit in their loss big time. Castle wasn’t great but at least Castle made his free throws(hi Wemby!)
Beyond his boneheaded move I think the overall criticism is that he is THE vet with a massive contract who was brought in to help the team navigate these tough situations and he’s doing none of it. Even worse, he’s selling just as much if not more than some of his teammates.
Yeah it’s one thing when your 20-22yo players make mental mistakes in their first postseason run ever. They’ve never been here before, you expect the pressure to get to them sometimes
It’s another thing when your 28yo supermax vet PG is the one making those mental mistakes lol. That’s his entire job!
Older cave dweller here, I’m seeing the word “selling” used a lot but wondering if it does/doesn’t mean selling a foul to get a call?
Someone maybe used it in the context of gambling, “Fox is selling the team and needs to be investigated”.
Selling means throwing the game away in this context.
The thing is he had several consecutive wasted possessions and bad fouls in games 1 and 2 that directly led to the Spurs blowing their leads and then probably half a dozen consecutive wasted possessions before his final possession blunder in game 4. He had more touches than anyone and it was reported something like 10% of them actually involved the ball reaching the paint.
I’ve genuinely never seen one guy negatively impact a series so badly in my entire life.
Edit: Just to add, I’m one of the few Knicks fans who never thought the Spurs got a favored whistle in this series and has enjoyed every game so far because it’s been great entertainment. We have been allowed to foul Wemby on nearly every rebound and possession he’s had in the paint because we simply don’t have a choice but to foul him so I can’t complain about the occasional wrong call or missed foul the other way.
But if De’Aaron Fox didn’t play for the Spurs we would likely be down 3-1 or swept. I wouldn’t mind him winning Finals MVP and getting a statue in front of MSG.
Yep, a layup > free throws. could’ve run a couple of seconds max before getting fouled. he just miscalculated how far Og was
Not to mention wemby just missed his free throws so he probably felt more comfortable getting the lay
Except not at all. It’s closer to 5-6 seconds with no one being around, leaving 5 or 6 seconds left. Also breaks up the game and makes it harder to come down and score. It’s not all on Fox but he for sure threw the game away
Lots of sports fans are fucking psychos. Is he supposed to dwell on this and let it haunt him for the rest of his career? He’s 100% right, all he can do is learn from it and move forward.
These losers probably dwell on their mistakes every day of their lives hence why they are so miserable.
People also forget the 3 he hit to stop a massive scoring drought and put the Spurs up by 7 after the first crisis.
If they get 1 more stop then Fox would have iced 2 games in a row. Which he deserves credit for.
100% this was a full team collapse and fox only got flak because it was the last bad play. Same way people would smoke josh hart if JB’s missed shot was not tipped in by OG.
Last two bad plays. This one and then failed to box out OG on the next play. Sure it was a full team collapse, but these last two were literally the difference between still winning after the collapse and losing. And this from a guy who’s getting paid max $ to not make these kinds of dumb mistakes.
I think the problem is that the spurs fans thought they were paying for Steph Curry/Chris Paul lite.
Fox is not the kind of guy who can completely take over a game for 5 minutes, the way players like prime LeBron, Curry, Kd or Luka can.
He has no playoff experience except for one series against the warriors in 2023, and he’s been on a slow decline as he ages and loses his explosive speed.
Spurs fans got a different player than what they thought they paid for and now they’re upset about it.
My son and I were laughing every time the broadcast team on the game 7 WCF keep talking about Fox’s “game 7 experience”. Like what?! One game and they LOST…
It was pretty critical “icing” though, it single handedly could’ve and likely would’ve let them survive the collapse.
You can say that about a million individual plays but that one was so close to the end and so blatantly obvious to anyone who has watched or played basketball before.
He was supposed to be on OG, he left him open to help Wemby. That’s what got OG the clear lane for a putback dunk. It’s not just that he fucked up on offense, also on defense. Just a total collapse. Yeah of course the whole team deserves blame for the blown lead but there is no doubt that fox cost them the game.
I mean situationally it’s not like he was holding the ball at half court and decided to chuck it up, he was running down a loose ball for a fast break and didn’t even space to dribble before going up.
Yeah he should’ve held it, but as a career 75% FT shooter assuming he gets fouled he has around a 6% chance he misses both and 44% chance of missing at least one. If he thought his chances of a quick layup to go up 3 (and maybe even drawing a foul, converting the and-1 and going up 4) are better than hitting both FTs, it’s not really the worst decision in the world, especially because he only had a split second to figure out what to do.
He knows he fucked up. That shit probably ate at him all night. The next morning he wakes up and gets back to work. Can’t carry that shit into the next game.
Wemby fucked up with the pass off Castle the game before. If anything, they both want to move on.
And missing two clutch free throws in this game
Fox has always been too chill and non-chalant to a fault. He’s not a leader by any stretch and it’s not just the salty kings fan in me talking. That’s always been his biggest knock. He has the tools to be much better than he is but doesn’t have the drive that stars do. Under his own admittance, his wife is the one that helps keep him focused and motivated. So no, I don’t think he was kept up all night by his series of blunders, but I guarantee you it ate at his wife.
Him smiling at all in the interview after game four was pretty telling to me. Like, damn dude, at least act like you’re upset.
Hart looked so depressed because he knew he fucked up but his team won.
“It is what it is” ~ Fox’s mantra his entire career. If he simply said “yeah I messed up” the slander wouldn’t be where it is.
I mean I really don’t get why yall want him to be all sad and mopey? To make yourselves feel better that he is showing some remorse? How does that help anything? Optics?
You’d rather him just sulk about until the next game instead of leaving a mistake behind and trying to focus on the next game? That’s fucking crazy bro. Get a grip.
Damn
I guess this attitude helps him not overthink, but it comes off like he doesn’t care.
As much as it feels like he’s unserious, he’s right. Can’t dwell on it have to try and move on
Tbf you can both take it seriously and move on.
I’m sure he does take it seriously but his focus should be on game 5 right now
Except he’a been like this his whole career. He’ll make boneheaded mistakes, brushes it off like it’s nothing, then makes the next boneheaded mistake as if he cant grow is BB IQ. He literally doesnt care about learning because he doesnt get upset about messing up. Dude hates accountability.
and sometimes killing coaches while he’s at it, smiling all the way
I agree
He’s always like this.i remember him missing 2 ft vs charlotte, then the 4pt play of detroit, he then smiled afterwards,at some point he had to take accountability. Although not sure what happens in the locker room
I mean what can you change shit happens in games. Better attitude then needing to apologize etc shit happens all the time and it was the whole team that lost that lead not just on him.
What the fuck do you guys want him to say? You KNOW that moment is stuck in his head. You KNOW he knows he fucked up.
Why the fuck would he come out and make it sound like it’s affecting him? Because it 100% is. He just doesn’t need to announce that to the world nor dwell on it. You need a short term memory at the highest level. Trying to move on is the best thing he can do.
“Yeah it was truly the worst moment of my life. That’s why I have to do this” *pulls out pistol and shoots himself in the face*
r/nba users fly into a frenzy trying to be the first to post the clip and comment “he’s really overreacting it’s not that bad”
/u/agitatedwoodpecker42 would prefer if he said he’d end his own life after game 4
I agree with you. People are dumb man
Nah. It’s the right attitude to have. Brush it off, focus on improving his play for the next game. Who cares about talking heads or some toxic random nobodies on the Internet? He should only be accountable to his teammates/organization.
I’d rather this than a thousand yard stare. But yeah it’s kind of lose-lose in these pressers idk what he’s supposed to say it was a generational choke job and you have to play again tomorrow.
Kings fans are very familiar with this type of response from him.
Cause he knows it’s Spurs in 7
He has always been like this. Super nonchalant, even kinda snarky about it. Kings fans never liked it especially after games where it looked like he was barely there
Now you see why we weren’t cut up so much about him leaving. He was doing this with us too. Well kinda, there was a period where he did no press at all.
He said the same shit after fouling Ivey on the 3 pointer that let Detroit win, and Mike Brown got fired the next day. He doesn’t care. I loved Fox, but last couple seasons showed he’s not serious about winning. Generational bag getter though.
You can’t change it now that Spurs gave 3 firsts and 3 seconds for Fox and paid him $229 mil over four years.
Spurs didn’t gave too much thanks to our previous gm, their mistake is signing him with that large contract
Spurs didn’t give up much bc Fox torpedoed any leverage Sacramento had in negotiations. He actively screwed the Kings over
100%
That’s what makes this so rich.
Rich Paul
Or we could phrase a different way that isn’t incredibly misleading
We gave away 2 firsts and 4 seconds. Because one of 1sts was already going to convert to 2nds. And of the two firsts, one wasn’t even ours. So we literally traded Tre Jones, Zach Collins, and a 1st for Fox. While not even giving back Sacramento’s unprotected pick swap.
We then paid a lead PG a max salary bc for the next three years it literally doesn’t matter if he makes the max based on our roster construction. We had to spend that money somewhere. Fox will turn from an overpay into an incredibly valuable veteran trade piece and contract the last year of his deal which lines up with when we would pay Castle and Harper
yes, there’s certainly nothing else you could do with that money the next 3 years aside from paying your young guys.
The amount of spurs fans that say they gave away 2 firsts is fucking astounding. You sent the bulls their 2025 first round pick too. So 2 to the kings, one to the bulls, plus 4 seconds.
Horrible decision. Fox has been this way about accountability with bone headed plays since he was with the sacramento kings
2 late round firsts and 3 seconds as one of the FRPs wasn’t going to convey. Not really a massive haul. We sorely needed him, and no one on /r/NBA seems to have a better option on who was available and willing to come to SA that is actually worth getting.
We wouldn’t be a 2nd seed without him, nor would we be in the Finals. It’s not the end of the world. Yeah he fucked up, but he didn’t cause us to choke away a 29 point lead.
Two firsts and three seconds
At the time of the trade the third frp was already not going to convey and turn into two seconds.
While he’s probably in denial, I do agree that Reddit is not real life at all and most pro athletes with millions and millions of dollars in the bank aren’t like oh my God I can’t wait to log onto Reddit and see what the NBA subreddit says about me.
Except for KD lol
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Probably a Mod on there
Except Fox and his family spend a shit load of time on social media. They def had burners in r/Kings so this all a bunch of saving face bullshit that he’s done in the past. See: interviews post Crypto scandal or any big Kings loss.
Exactly, he has a history of looking up what people say about him online. The Fox doth protest too much
It may be his demeanor but he’s a bit too nonchalant about this than I’d like.
I mean the time to be chalant about this is after the series. While you’re still playing you have to move forward or you are fucked
He’s always been like this. Said something similar after making a horrible mistake that got Mike Brown fired
Then forced a trade and took away all leverage because brown got fired lol. Dude is a snake not a fox
Not the first time, missing 2 game winning ft vs charlotte, fouling 3pt shot vs detroit to name a few and he will just smile like nothing happened
Any kings fan can tell you this was one of our biggest beefs. His response always has and always will be, “move past it” when things go wrong. 0 accountability
Been like this his whole career
Look at his lineup, I’m not surprised he dgaf about anything
Kings fans have been telling yall this since the moment we traded him
I guess what it does show is that it’s him and not an organizational thing.
Watch his postgame interview after the play that got Mike Brown fired. Its the same. This is who he is.
He’s been nonchalant about his entire NBA career tbh. Hate this “ too cool to get riled up” type of player.
Yep agreed I don’t care about the picks lost and salary lost to Fox but this type of oh well who cares attitude is going to fck up these young spurs.
De’Aaron “it is what it is” Fox
Internet criticism is meaningless when it’s a bunch of emotionally insane people reacting to sports like it’s their life on the line
It really bums me out the way people on the internet get so much more excited about being able to point fingers and blame and scapegoat and tear down people for their shortcomings and failures instead of praising them for their victories and successes. It felt like after the game there was a relatively small handful of posts about what an amazing comeback the Knicks made, buried in an ocean of posts about how badly the Spurs choked and how dumb Fox was for going for the layup, etc. Sucks, man.
If I were a Spurs fan I’d hate how unserious he is taking this.
Really? Idk what he’s supposed to do. I feel like getting in his head about it would seem like a much worse problem.
He was doing this on the kings, too. Makes a mistake…brushes it off…doesnt learn…smiles…then moves on so he can make the next mistake. He is not the vet young dudes should learn from because he doesnt take accountability. He was a fast player, but he aint no leader.
Reality is he was always this way in Sacramento, Spurs knew what they were getting on that front. He can’t just take responsibility with the press.
Yeah he’s always been De’Passive Fox and not taking accountability.
Not a vocal leader, similar to Curry but obviously not as good to makeup for it.
Idk he has to move forward and focus on the next game
What I’d hate as a Spurs fan is that my team pissed away a 29 point lead by playing stupid and having the game come down to a “final” play.
Exactly. The Fox mishap was a drop in the bucket compared to completely getting away from their offense in the second half.
I’m happy with Fox being on the Spurs, I think the collapse in Game 4 shows their inexperience and I trust in the organization and the players to learn and grow from it.
This team is going to win championships. This run is going to provide countless lessons regardless of the outcome.
I’m sure he’s taking it very seriously with his teammates and coaches. This is a media appearance. They don’t need to know the details of that.
Plenty of things to criticize Fox about this playoff. This ain’t it.
What he says to the media and how he actually feels are likely not the same. I’d rather him and the whole team do what they can to move on amd get ready for game 5.
I hated this as a kings fan. He always had that I don’t care attitude to him.
I don’t get why Wembanyama hasn’t caught more flack for bricking two free throws after talking all that nonsense
I think that’s why Fox got so much hate, people trying to deflect attention away from Wemby choking too.
Golden boy choked 3 different games and disappeared in the clutch the game they win
I think its 2 reasons:
Its easier to not shoot a layup than make free throws in the clutch
Fox was pretty terrible in the 2nd half, and this was just the cherry on top
“It is what it is” that’s the same shit he said when he fouled Ivey and gave up the 4 point play and got Mike Brown fired. He’s trying to act stoic to protect his ego but really what he’s doing is ducking accountability
Horribly dumb play. That being said he’s obviously hurt. Hes taking a left handed lay up off his left foot. He can’t push off his right foot at all.
He’s left handed
yes but you normally jump off your right foot for a left handed layup, which was their point
“how do you know i dont play the sport of basketball”
okay, but you’re supposed to jump off your right foot for a left-handed layup
Dude is laughing it off. Cmon man, show some accountability 😭
He is not required to beat himself up in an interview for our feelings. We’re on to game 5
He shouldn’t beat himself up at all.
I thought it was kind of wild that he doubled down on it in the post game interview though. Even Josh Hart had the “holy shit I fucked up” attitude after they won. Fox was just kind of like “well I thought it was a good play, no regratz”
I wish a reporter would have followed up on that answer. That was a truly crazy answer that he gave
Why do they want the player to shit on himself? I’ll never understand some people. If im a player im just brushing it off same as Fox. Better that then getting in your head and playing bad next game.
But the real way you brush it off is by acknowledging you messed up and that you should have done better, and that you will do better. Not whatever this is.
He ALWAYS had this whatever attitude with a smile in Sac. That pissed me off so much. Reminds me when we lost to Detroit by 1 point when he fouled Ivey at the 3 for a 4 point play.
De’Aaron “it happened in the past so there’s no point in taking accountability in anything I do because I’m focused on the next game” Fox
Kings fans:
“First time?”
Fox was like this with the Kings. He doesn’t give a fuck. Dude just there for the check, he never comes off as a leader or someone that wants to win
I usually hate when commentators default to the trope of “whoever wants it more is going to win” because it’s usually reductive, but I legitimately get the impression that Fox doesn’t have the same drive as other stars and sees this more as just his job. Which is fine, nothing immoral about that.
This has always been his demeanor and he really hasn’t ever shown that much drive or passion. He acts like he dgaf but his wife’s online behavior says otherwise
Classic Fox, always doesnt matter, same thing he said way back then after committing stupid foul on Ivey
Guy’s in denial
That’s a Legacy defining blunder some Ben Simmons passing out the type paint stuff
And I say this as a hardcore spurs fan
I don’t think it is. The Spurs had so many fails by so many different people that even though Fox fucked up it’s simply not fair to blame him overall for the loss.
And these fails were not things like “George Hill missed the FT so that mitigates JR Smith being a dumbass” which isn’t accurate because missed FTs happen so normal variance can’t excuse JR Smith. We’re talking an entire team shooting 20% for 24 minutes.
Why is this so much worse than Wemby beaning Castle in the back Game 2 in a very similar spot?
He didn’t personally blow a 29 point lead. Why should he carry the weight of it all? At least he wasn’t indecisive.
Shows me why certain players never win. They have loser mentalities. Instead of taking ownership and saying I gotta do better, he says “who cares, the people criticizing me don’t have access to me”
Very disappointing.
Taking ownership ain’t gone make him play better it will just make yall feel better, stop debating athletes to be robots and let them be themselves, same reason wemby looks like a douche after talking about ethical hoops because that’s what the fans wanted to hear then he goes out and starts elbowing people and flopping
No one on this team can take accountability lmao
the NBA done really unlocked a new diva 😂
Knicks coach that u got fired , does have your number. He says thank you.
There’s a part of me that wonders about this dude.
Because dude sold the game. It wasn’t that last mistake only.
Well it matters in that you’ve taken no responsibility and shown no awareness of how your thought process didn’t make sense..and there’s an indication that you would do something like this again in the future since you haven’t acknowledged the problem still
Hell yeah I’m glad my “veteran leader” is saying things like “it doesn’t matter” and “it is what it is” after one of the biggest blunders in NBA Finals history
Maybe the coach could’ve found more than 4 minutes to rest Wemby up 29. They could’ve had actually fresh for those last minutes.
I know everyone is saying he should take accountability for it but the entire team choked that one away his was just the last and most visible choke
Fox’s mistake is just the last thing people saw. What about all the other issues that caused the 29-point lead to evaporate in the first place?
I got my millions and it’s guaranteed! Y’all don’t like me trade me in off-season. That’s how I’m reading this and Spurs fans should be mad
Show accountability first then you can move on
Fuck you bro
Was fox bad? Yes. Was the entire spurs team and their coach bad in the 2nd half? Yes. They blew a 29pt lead. Idgaf what the contract is, what the mistakes were, thats on the WHOLE team and Coach. Gotta learn and move on
Spoken like a man who was watching everything on socials
Its still wild to me people are focusing so hard on Fox messing up on that play as if a historically ugly 20+ point blown lead was his doing entirely. What’s funny is that he was basically the only one setting ip any offense at all for the entirety of the 4th quarter for the Spurs.
I still think the fault lies more with Coaching, Castle and Wemby
Brotha doesn’t have an ounce of remorse in him