Postgame video 1/22/10

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Coach Pop
http://www.nba.com/spurs/multimedia/100122_pop.html

Tim Duncan
http://www.nba.com/spurs/multimedia/100122_duncan.html

Richard Jefferson
http://www.nba.com/spurs/multimedia/100122_jefferson.html

George Hill
http://www.nba.com/spurs/multimedia/100122_hill.html

[MaNu4Tres]

Well Pop,

I hate to break to you, but small ball doesn't help your interior defense. Especially with Tim's man setting the screens everytime down the floor.

Can you accept that please?

Thanks,

A spurs fan.

[SouthTexasRancher]

Pop, this is by far your worst year of coaching the Spurs. You seem lost and you keep letting your hardheadeness and gigantic EGO make stupid decisions for you. Admit you and RC made two terrible mistakes in getting RJ and Dice. Trade both for what you can get for them...a new puppy would be good. Bring Bowen out of retirement so he can help bring us a smidgen of defense. And admit to Holt that you are getting out coached by every coach in the league. Maybe time for retirement! Think about doing what is best for the Spurs!

[hsxvvd]

Well Pop,

I hate to break to you, but small ball doesn't help your interior defense. Especially with Tim's man setting the screens everytime down the floor.

Can you accept that please?

Thanks,

A spurs fan.

+1

:bang

[hsxvvd]

Pop, this is by far your worst year of coaching the Spurs. You seem lost and you keep letting your hardheadeness and gigantic EGO make stupid decisions for you. Admit you and RC made two terrible mistakes in getting RJ and Dice. Trade both for what you can get for them...a new puppy would be good. Bring Bowen out of retirement so he can help bring us a smidgen of defense. And admit to Holt that you are getting out coached by every coach in the league. Maybe time for retirement! Think about doing what is best for the Spurs!

We simply need a veteran assistant who isn't is awe of Pop and can provide some solid advice when it's needed.

[DPG21920]

I really like what RJ had to say. I hope it translates into more focused and determined play.

[Bruno]

The silver lining is that these loses (against Utah and Houston) clearly shows this team huge defensive weakness.
I don't know how Pop or someone else in the staff/FO could now think that this team just need some chemistry and is going to be fine.

I'm not against a couple more of losses like that if he could push Spurs to make a move before the trade deadline.

[MaNu4Tres]

I really like what RJ had to say. I hope it translates into more focused and determined play.

They can be focused and more determined all they want, but when they go small it doesn't matter. (From a defensive standpoint).

[DPG21920]

The silver lining is that these loses (against Utah and Houston) clearly shows this team huge defensive weakness.
I don't know how Pop or someone else in the staff/FO could now think that this team just need some chemistry and is going to be fine.

I'm not against a couple more of losses like that if he could push Spurs to make a move before the trade deadline.

Like you said in the other thread, even you could see that they would not have the tools to be a great defensive team from the beginning. Do you think they knew that as well and just wanted to evaluate to see how far off they were? Or did they just miss it completely and are only now possibly realizing it?


I for one think they truly thought they had the pieces. I wonder now if they still think that.

[Bruno]

Like you said in the other thread, even you could see that they would not have the tools to be a great defensive team from the beginning. Do you think they knew that as well and just wanted to evaluate to see how far off they were? Or did they just miss it completely and are only now possibly realizing it?


I don't know.

Maybe Spurs have been trying to upgrade their defense with a trade for months and hasn't been able to find a trade they like. Most of the trade happen just before the trade deadline so the right one could pop up at that time. What go against that scenario is that there have been no rumors about Spurs trying to do a trade (except Mason for Bell). If Spurs were really active, some leaks would have surfaced from other front offices.

Whether or not Spurs were still trying to do a trade, these ugly losses will surely push them in the right direction and increase odds of a trade.

[objective]

I'm not against a couple more of losses like that if he could push Spurs to make a move before the trade deadline.

Sounds good to me.

BUT at least they could do a shake-up before a trade.

Play Ian and Malik. Play them large. Let the overpaid, lazy, bored, stiff, passive, uninterested, creaky vets sit for a few games and watch players who sell out like their careers depend on it, because it basically does.

Maybe it will have an effect and the vets will wake up.

I'd hate to see another Kurt Thomas-like trade. Not just because KT was another guy dangerously close to being finished, but because they pulled that trade without giving Ian a shot even though he was playing well in d-league. Was he too green to help back then? Maybe. Hell, most probably. But at least see what's in your hand before folding your cards.

To do a trade this season without pulling out all the stops, i.e. forcefeeding inactive fodder like Ian and Hairston would just be a panic trade. What's the worst that could happen . . . they'd lose games to good teams as well as mediocre ones? Already got that handled.

BUT . . .

This is the Spurs. I fully expect Pop to bury those guys again, and RC might as well trade expirings + Splitter for Brad Miller's decomposing corpse.

:depressed

[HarlemHeat37]

I agree with your logic to play the youngsters, at least for the reason that it might light a fire under the veterans that clearly aren't playing with energy, but it's gotten to the point where Pop doesn't look like he's putting a lot of fire into his own coaching too..

This team really needs a spark somehow..