how many games has pop cost the spurs this season?

[RD2191]

this might be a stupid thread but it seems as if pop's rotations keep getting weirder and stranger. in your honest opinion do you think pop has cost the spurs some of their losses this season?

[TDMVPDPOY]

out of t he 10 losses, 6 of them games were winnable to an extent...but they games that the spurs shoudlve won to be honest...

[chapnis]

this might be a stupid thread but it seems as if pop's rotations keep getting weirder and stranger. in your honest opinion do you think pop has cost the spurs some of their losses this season?

Probably only the Norleans game...

[freetiago]

hes played a lot of microball when it wasnt needed this season
and a lot of no playmaker lineups

[silverblk mystix]

How many titles has Pop cost the Spurs?

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[Brazil]

How many games we won thanks to pop?

[Spur|n|Austin]

this might be a stupid thread

[Brunodf]

How many titles has Pop cost the Spurs?

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3-4, but he won 4. So i guess that's good

[txstr1986]

How many games we won thanks to pop?

This

[Solid D]

Fairly typical this time of year for Pop to do his lab experiments.

[timvp]

As weird as Pop's lineups can be at times, it's pretty clear that he's the best coach in the NBA. That doesn't make him perfect -- far from it -- but he's easily the best one going right now.

[spurraider21]

As weird as Pop's lineups can be at times, it's pretty clear that he's the best coach in the NBA. That doesn't make him perfect -- far from it -- but he's easily the best one going right now.
This. This. This.
For all you guys including mystix, I just really want to know your suggested replacement for Pop. He's as good as there is. Rotations in regular season get wonky, but his system he implemented is probably the best in the league

[Blake]

The Miami game makes at least one.

[phxspurfan]

As weird as Pop's lineups can be at times, it's pretty clear that he's the best coach in the NBA. That doesn't make him perfect -- far from it -- but he's easily the best one going right now.

That's true, and that's sad. There are head coaches in the NBA who shouldn't be coaching at all.

Where are the new grand masters to replace Sloan, Jackson, Nelson, Chuck Daly, Larry Brown, Pat Riley? All we have left is guys like Pop, Doc Rivers, and a bunch of wannabes like Stan Van Gundy, Nate McMillan, and frauds like Del Negro, Avery Johnson, Thibodeau, Mike Brown etc, riding on coattails of their mentors. They're using the same schemes drawn up 20 years ago. Their best plays out of timeouts are isos and lob passes. I'd bet with the talent equal, college coaches like Coach K, Roy Willians, Tom Izzo, Rick Pitino, Dean Smith and Lute Olson could school most NBA coaches.

[dunkman]

Rick Pitino wasn't that great in Boston. Pop views the RS as the pre-season. The failure to win more titles, well its complicated. Most of the times lack of talent and injuries, but sincerely in 06 the Spurs were favourites. After the 07 title, the Spurs just lacked the talent of any of the championship teams.

[spursfaninla]

That's true, and that's sad. There are head coaches in the NBA who shouldn't be coaching at all.

Where are the new grand masters to replace Sloan, Jackson, Nelson, Chuck Daly, Larry Brown, Pat Riley? All we have left is guys like Pop, Doc Rivers, and a bunch of wannabes like Stan Van Gundy, Nate McMillan, and frauds like Del Negro, Avery Johnson, Thibodeau, Mike Brown etc, riding on coattails of their mentors. They're using the same schemes drawn up 20 years ago. Their best plays out of timeouts are isos and lob passes. I'd bet with the talent equal, college coaches like Coach K, Roy Willians, Tom Izzo, Rick Pitino, Dean Smith and Lute Olson could school most NBA coaches.

Rick Pitino, tom izzo, john calipari, tim floyd, mike montgomery...the list of successful college coaches who became nba coaching failures is replete.

[cd021]

At Utah-Duncan had a strong game early but Pop kept him on the bench for about 8 minutes of game time. Duncan came back and scored only one basket the rest of the way. The Spurs could have used Duncan to slow Utah's comeback (we were up by about 8 with 2:30 to go)

At Portland (2nd game) Mills had shot the ball well late in the 3rd and through the 4th but he went back to Green who had a horrid shooting night ,though to be fair the spurs needed defense and rebounding which Green gives over Mills.

[therealtruth]

The issue I have with Pop is he struggles figuring stuff out with talented teams. It's much easier figuring out who's going to play when you have a top heavy team but when you have a team that is pretty talented all around it's tougher. You have to make tradeoffs. Pop seems unwilling to make those tradeoffs.

[Cry Havoc]

this might be a stupid thread but it seems as if pop's rotations keep getting weirder and stranger. in your honest opinion do you think pop has cost the spurs some of their losses this season?

Yep. Real stupid.

Since when do we give a shit about the regular season?

[RD2191]

since 07

[SA210]

How many titles has Pop cost the Spurs?

More appropriate question.

lol I was gna say the same thing

[Obstructed_View]

this might be a stupid thread but it seems as if pop's rotations keep getting weirder and stranger. in your honest opinion do you think pop has cost the spurs some of their losses this season?

With all due respect, who gives a shit? Pop's abandoned the "try to shoot more" method that was so disastrous the last few years. He's not starting Matt Bonner or Keith Bogans. He's not relying on Richard Jefferson or Michael Finley to play a lot of power forward. He's not putting Steve Novak in the game to inbound the ball with 2 seconds on the clock. He's not punishing good players with DNP-CDs because they commited a foul.

They're within a game of home court. They're playing defense, rebounding well and are one of the highest scoring and best assist teams in the league. If anything, the biggest problem in Pop's universe right about now is figuring out how the hell he's going to shorten the rotation for the playoffs. I'd much rather he experiment now than in April.