I was taught its spin and pull, spin and pull, pull. Don't think just do.
When I first started reading this, after the sentence about pointing the nose and descent, I had scary imaginations of someone in a jet cockpit using lots of rudder and lots of back elevator and then experiencing lots of g. Silly boy. But I don't understand the 'pull' bit.
The direction of the HDG change is indeed something to consider. I used to teach the F/O, as PM, to beware of the captains who will always turn left. So there you are flying east along the Turkish coast with high MSA on the left and low level sea on the right. Hm? Beware.