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Bertans helps the ball movement too. His ability to drive on closeouts is great, and he's a very good passer, even on the move.
3pt sucked ball movement sucked.
Bertans helps the ball movement too. His ability to drive on closeouts is great, and he's a very good passer, even on the move.
We should have Becky Hammon running the game come crunch time.
This is B.S. keeping Mills and Parker on the floor on defense.
Pop limited his versatility by only allowing him to play PF. It boggles my mind how Pop can't play him at the 3. He has better skill set to play the position than Anderson and Simmons.
does he even work the refs anymore?
when danny or someone makes a mistake does he call a timeout and come onto the court ripping them apart?
dude checked out after duncan was gone, doesn't give a
He's 68. He needs retire and enjoy the rest of his liberal life in a gated community.
Forfeiting game 3 was dumb, but if they lose this series... I don't know. That defeatist at ude isn't acceptable. There have been at least a couple of big comebacks in these playoffs because those teams didn't quit. Is it really impossible to coach up a 61-win team, even if only to avoid another first round exit?
PLUS subbing DLee in on defense while keeping Tony and Patty in!
It's not all on Pop. But he does deserve criticism for what others have already stated. It's a little bit of everything.
Role players not stepping up or being put in a situation (lineup) where their abilities aren't best maximized or their weaknesses are glaringly exposed for all of the naked eye to see.
Kawhi is brilliant. Other players haven't played up to their best. Aldridge is flat out getting punked by the fat rotten corpse of Randolph. Sans Parker last game (and obviously Kawhi), no one is keen on consistently attacking the basket. The lack of ball movement and crisp sets run is coming back to bite the Spurs in ass. You couple that with brilliant hard nosed physical defensive by Memphis and you get the catastrophe unfolding right in front of our eyes.
Memphis shot abnormally high percentages given their regular season stats and much of that has to do with personnel on-court. Individually this team doesn't have great combo individual/P&N defenders outside of Kawhi, Green and Dedmon. Many posters, including myself, saw this coming from a mile away. This team just doesn't have a capable playmaker outside of Kawhi. And the current players aren't that kind either outside of Manu who flat out looks a step away retirement.
For the Spurs to win this series, Memphis will have to start missing their shots if they continue getting good looks, which they will continue to get unless this team starts imposing their will on them. A team that looks like they belong in a 90's NBA regular season game playing as the ing Vancouver Grizzlies with an antiquated offense, slugged/rugged defensive scheme is clowning a team with NBA HOF'ers a few years removed from a le. Maybe it's just that Timmy is truly missed...who ing knows
As we can see young hungry coaches give new players a chance when they have potential if his regular players are being unproductive, tonight Canaan scored 13 - 2 rebounds - 3 assists and 2 steals for the Bulls ... second best scorer for them and +11, while Stevens gave a chance to Gerald Green that produced 18 points and 7 rebounds +4.
We have Murray and other times players that could make a difference like Marco and Patty when they were hot and he chooses his stupid veterans and its a 100% fail.
Playing safe even when you have 95% of chances to lose if you dont look other options is dumb .
His lack of balls never ceases to amaze me, when refs with us time after time and old man picks the goody 2 shoes role.
Why you should respect people that is giving other team advantages for no reason at all? You scream about the president and say nothing about a couple of old midgets with a whistle? you pizza face.
Btw, a few media people noticed the ty lineup in the 4th.
Just not enough balls to call him out.
No surprises here. Pop calls this "pounding the rock."
Eli missed another important possession.. tbh..
I just looked at some of those clips and why even have david lee there for a defensive possession guarding a 3 pt shooter. smdh at POP
God damn Pop
He probably needed to watch the block party Simms/Anderson threw in game 1 I believe... heck what about Danny.... Lee just stands there, doesn't commit to prevent a drive and he doesn't have the length Kyle would have had to try to make a play on that ball or the hops Simms had to try to block a shot... or the defense of a specialist like Danny.
god damn Pop.
Why?
Pop has been insulated so well that he tells the media to go themselves and they write flowery articles about it because Pop felt a tinge of guilt when Sager was diagnosed with cancer. Pop had a media personality in SA basically fired by locking him out of interviews because he asked a tough question. Pop thinks the media that surrounds the game he gets paid millions to participate in is basically useless. Pop is an asshole to a flaw, then he breaks a bit because he remembers his paycheck comes from the fact that people outside of the Spurs organization pay money to keep up with the team, to watch them, to buy merchandise. Oh he'll admit it very candidly if you bring it up, that without fans he's probably a high school teacher somewhere, but of all the "get over himself" remarks he's made over the years, he's the one who hasn't done so. This is why he says "I can't believe they allow me to coach them like I do" meaning " them over, curse them out and then sit them in crucial moments".
Still, he's a better coach than anyone else coaching the game, but he's a real piece of work. It's refreshing though when the majority of the ROTL has sycophant coaches who don't really coach, they just cheerlead and rely on the team alpha to make all the decisions.
Aside from all of that, Pop is a master tactician. He knows more about the inner workings of the team than all the fans combined. That means Pop has to think financially as well as tactically where compe iveness is concerned. The team has to make a profit, because in a small market like SA, you cannot spend 150m a year on a playoff bubble team just because they all have names. Pop will instead spend under 100m and still field a compe ive team, make a profit, create some local stars like Mills and Danny Green, and when contract time comes around, Pop is in the drivers seat because no "role" guy can have his agent cite stats to Pop. The agent cannot gain traction from threatening to look elsewhere because Pop has a plug and play system and it's well known (even if it's not totally true).
Pop has molded his world to suit himself. That's what great leaders do. In the process he's delivered 5 rings to a city that had zero when he arrived.
damn, didn't know about that. what were the details on that?
Manu and Green shot 2 for 14.
<looks at them, arms crossed>
Had to do with the firing of Bob Hill.
At this rate, it seems like whatever we want Pop to do,we should suggest he do the opposite...
Excellent article.
Did any of the local media pussies even comment on the subject of Pop's defensive assignments with the game on the line?
.....No.
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