Doubters are wrong about Mitch Johnson—and it’s about to show

Detroit Pistons v San Antonio Spurs | Ronald Cortes/GettyImages"Is Mitch Johnson the guy? You talk to people in the league, they weren't blown away by his playbook last year," is a real sentence spoken by long-time NBA writer, John Hollinger, on The Zach Lowe Show. Every now and then, I'm reminded that front office executives are just regular people, and sometimes ordinary folks make silly statements.

Johnson's situation last season was anything but normal. Had Coach Popovich had his health scare in the offseason, giving his successor time to prepare to lead the team, the criticism would make more sense. That's not what happened, though. He didn't have time to create his own playbook,…