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Uriel
05-22-2016, 10:20 PM
Or at the very least, the closest thing you can get to an article critical of Pop. Excerpt from Buck Harvey's article:


Popovich is the only other active coach in the top 10. He’s also coached almost 1,500 more games (regular season and postseason) than Kerr, Donovan and Lue combined.

But Popovich lost to Lue the only time he coached against him. Popovich never showed he had any real answer for the 73-win Warriors. And Popovich lost to the Thunder in the postseason after Donovan kept his poise after Game 1, shortened his rotation and adjusted with bigger lineups.

Was Popovich out-coached? A case can be made.

“We know that Pop is an unbelievable coach,” Randy Foye told the New York Times last week. “The ways he draws up plays, the ways he subs, the way he does things. But Billy was pretty much ready for everything the Spurs threw at us. He did an unbelievable job of adjusting and growing, game in and game out.”
http://www.expressnews.com/sports/columnists/buck_harvey/article/Power-of-a-voice-Popovich-knows-how-fragile-this-7929650.php?t=e2575c36e9ebaa2aab&cmpid=twitter-premium

Floyd Pacquiao
05-22-2016, 10:22 PM
Buck Harvey gonna get a talking too now.

UZER
05-22-2016, 10:24 PM
Well it was nice knowing you Buck.

ElNono
05-22-2016, 10:25 PM
If that's criticism, we're fucked...

dabom
05-22-2016, 10:25 PM
Pop has the biggest ego in the room. He knows he needs to change now that he has a top 2 player in the league. Kawhi needs to get more minutes for more experience and to condition himself for the playoffs.

look_at_g_shred
05-22-2016, 10:25 PM
Overrated coach smdh

Floyd Pacquiao
05-22-2016, 10:26 PM
"It's just basketball"
-moon face

spursistan
05-22-2016, 10:27 PM
Haven't read yet, but you get the feeling that the dam has finally broken as far as Pop criticism in basketball public/media sphere..

his last two putrid coaching performances inthe playoffs have put him under the loop..

UZER
05-22-2016, 10:29 PM
If that's criticism, we're fucked...

At least its something.

apalisoc_9
05-22-2016, 10:31 PM
Its all about himself nowadys. A lot of his cute decision making is aimed at him making him look like hes some sort of a genuis at the expense of the team. Needs to go if he doesnt get over himself and his "system"

therealtruth
05-22-2016, 10:32 PM
I heard a guy called him out once but didn't last long.

RD2191
05-22-2016, 10:33 PM
Tbh Pop just isn't hungry anymore.

K...
05-22-2016, 10:34 PM
Coach make player miss shot, coach make okc play bad in regular season but good in playoffs, coach make Kawhi too tired in fourth,, coach make mills shoulder die,, coach make Boris bored, coach make lma blow load in game 2, coach make Parker old, coach fuck Duncan's knee. Bad coach, crazy bad

UZER
05-22-2016, 10:34 PM
Pop can't practice what he preaches. Only he's allowed to not be over himself.

When ever he feels heat, he plays the "just basketball" card.

He needs to walk away if he doesn't have the fire anymore.

RD2191
05-22-2016, 10:35 PM
Pop can't practice what he preaches. He allowed to not be over himself.

When ever he feels heat, he plays the "just basketball" card.

He needs to walk away if he doesn't have the fire anymore.
Tbh

objective
05-22-2016, 10:35 PM
Maybe Harvey is retiring and this is as fearless as a hack gets.

dabom
05-22-2016, 10:35 PM
Coach playing West/fathead over Duncan/Kawhi. :lmao

Hoops Czar
05-22-2016, 10:41 PM
The NBA version of Joe Girardi.

Snaq O'Meal
05-22-2016, 10:43 PM
Too little and too late tbh. The media spotlight should be on Poop after last year's playoff debacle.

timtonymanu
05-22-2016, 10:47 PM
Won't change a thing. Pop preaches getting over yourself but his ego contradicts that completely.

UZER
05-22-2016, 10:53 PM
And he always needs a whipping boy during the season to yell at relentlessly just so it looks like he's actually coaching. Can see right through that bull ish.

This year it was Kyle. He was yelling at him late late in game 6 when it was already over. Get over yourself man. :lol

TheGreatYacht
05-22-2016, 10:56 PM
Calls timeouts 30 seconds into the game down 0-2 :lol

Can't get over himself :lol

Let's the players coach the huddles :lol

Suicide lineup of West-Diaw-Anderson :lol

Benching the guy who he rode for 5 rings :lol

It's just basketball :lol

Reporter questions him, mean mugs and doesn't respond :lol

overrated :lol
:wakeup

Budkin
05-22-2016, 11:00 PM
Tbh Pop just isn't hungry anymore.

This.

SuperCam
05-22-2016, 11:01 PM
how Tim never beat his ass after pulling him in 6 i'll never know

mfer lost to avery johnson, scott brooks, lional hollins and rookie billy donovan as the higher seed with a painful amount of overcoaching yet sycophantic faggots put him as all time great :lol


give Larry Brown, Phil, or Carlisle equal talented roster and poop gets whipped every time

sasaint
05-22-2016, 11:06 PM
Too little and too late tbh. The media spotlight should be on Poop after last year's playoff debacle.

+1

TheGreatYacht
05-22-2016, 11:08 PM
how Tim never beat his ass after pulling him in 6 i'll never know

mfer lost to avery johnson, scott brooks, lional hollins and rookie billy donovan as the higher seed with a painful amount of overcoaching yet sycophantic faggots put him as all time great :lol


give Larry Brown, Phil, or Carlisle equal talented roster and poop gets whipped every time
Playing McDyess, Blair, and Bonner over Splitter lmfao. Green got 7 minutes that whole Memphis series lmfao.

spursistan
05-22-2016, 11:09 PM
how Tim never beat his ass after pulling him in 6 i'll never know

mfer lost to avery johnson, scott brooks, lional hollins and rookie billy donovan as the higher seed with a painful amount of overcoaching yet sycophantic faggots put him as all time great :lol


give Larry Brown, Phil, or Carlisle equal talented roster and poop gets whipped every time
:lmao

embarrasing, tbh..

TheGoldStandard
05-22-2016, 11:15 PM
There is a reason why the majority of the players they draft are euro passive players who believe the coach is like a father figure or unathletic/undersized players. They have some kind of weakness that Pop can always downplay and it'll keep them from speaking up about his inability to coach or questioning his reasoning.. Pop is the kind of asshole who would play David West over D'Andre Jordan if Jordan missed an assignment or something stupid..

T Park
05-22-2016, 11:38 PM
They critiqued him. Wow, sure made a difference.


But hey the basement dwellers are happy so that's all that matters.

Darius Bieber
05-22-2016, 11:40 PM
Imagine how many more championships we would have had with Phil Jackson or Rick Carlisle.... :depressed

spurs1990
05-22-2016, 11:49 PM
....and yet but for a few grossly improper calls against SA in Games 2 and 5 and it would've been your Spurs up 2-1 vs GSW.

Darius Bieber
05-22-2016, 11:50 PM
....and yet a few calls in Games 2 and 5 and it would've been your Spurs up 2-1 vs GSW.

:lmaoThe Spurs winning two games against the Warriors

Hoops Czar
05-22-2016, 11:52 PM
....and yet but for a few grossly improper calls against SA in Games 2 and 5 and it would've been your Spurs up 2-1 vs GSW.

:lmao

TheGreatYacht
05-22-2016, 11:59 PM
....and yet but for a few grossly improper calls against SA in Games 2 and 5 and it would've been your Spurs up 2-1 vs GSW.
The Thunder attack the rim and get free throws, they're also the best rebounding team in the league, Draymond's size is really getting exposed.

Spurs? They'll settle for mid range bricks, and the Turd Towers would allow Kerr to play the death lineup more. They also have Pop, who's not on Donovan's level.

SupremeGuy
05-23-2016, 12:00 AM
Tbh Pop just isn't hungry anymore.Yup.

DJR210
05-23-2016, 12:09 AM
:wow

www.mysa.com/Buck-Harvey-found-dead-behind-taco-cabana

Floyd Pacquiao
05-23-2016, 12:18 AM
:wow

www.mysa.com/Buck-Harvey-found-dead-behind-taco-cabana

Crater face has a strangle hold on the media :lol

Mikeanaro
05-23-2016, 12:28 AM
Pop is done, the living proof is still having Bonner on the roster when he is only wasting space, old man is like a friend who never asks too much to his players.

apalisoc_9
05-23-2016, 12:38 AM
:wow

www.mysa.com/Buck-Harvey-found-dead-behind-taco-cabana

Wow..nigga going to ruin the spurs with his POS ego. Hes going to bench and play kawhu 29mpg next year at 25 to prove a point. POs needs to retire. They were up 19-18 when he decided to play anderso and the rest of the shitty bench..next thing you know its 19-38.

Piss off Pop

timtonymanu
05-23-2016, 12:46 AM
They critiqued him. Wow, sure made a difference.


But hey the basement dwellers are happy so that's all that matters.

The couch dweller made a post.

timtonymanu
05-23-2016, 12:50 AM
Crater face has a strangle hold on the media :lol

Dude just needs to take his 5 rings and retire. he'll kill the Leonard era faster than Enrique at this point

spurraider21
05-23-2016, 01:24 AM
why do people act like pop has never been criticized? remember 2013?

spursistan
05-23-2016, 01:29 AM
The Thunder attack the rim and get free throws, they're also the best rebounding team in the league, Draymond's size is really getting exposed.

Spurs? They'll settle for mid range bricks, and the Turd Towers would allow Kerr to play the death lineup more. They also have Pop, who's not on Donovan's level.

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CjHG4FYWkAE323z.jpg:large

nigga getting pounded down low..

Spurs need to shed those turd, washed up bigs we have and get some young legs ASAP, tbh..

spursistan
05-23-2016, 01:31 AM
Pop is done

timtonymanu
05-23-2016, 01:32 AM
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CjHG4FYWkAE323z.jpg:large

nigga getting pounded down low..

Spurs need to shed those turd, washed up bigs we have and get some young legs ASAP, tbh..

:pop: are you crazy? the answer is more Matt Bonner.

TheGreatYacht
05-23-2016, 01:33 AM
Spurs need to shed those turd, washed up bigs we have and get some young legs ASAP, tbh..
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Sean Cagney
05-23-2016, 01:38 AM
Tbh Pop just isn't hungry anymore.

Nope, instead he is thirsty and drinks more wine and it has messed with his head.

DenialTwist
05-23-2016, 01:52 AM
Tbh Pop just isn't hungry anymore.

He isn't. I think he proved that last year against the Clippers.

Kawhitstorm
05-23-2016, 02:03 AM
731194667270737920

So, he's going to replace to 40 yr olds w/ two 35 yr olds.:wow

midnightpulp
05-23-2016, 02:17 AM
I honestly thought he got over his coaching glitches in 2014. He pretty much coached a perfect run. Didn't screw around with Frankenstein lineups, didn't overplay bench scrubs, wasn't afraid to make major mid-game adjustments (sat Parker the 2nd half on game 6 against the Thunder), actively sought out Kawhi and told him to be more aggressive, and of course designed a pitch perfect gameplan to beat the swarming Miami defense.

Brilliant coach, but as I've said, he thinks his brilliance gives him license to go full mad scientist. His fascination with silly lineups and his obsession with "rest" will continue to cost the Spurs playoff wins.

spursistan
05-23-2016, 02:27 AM
I honestly thought he got over his coaching glitches in 2014. He pretty much coached a perfect run. Didn't screw around with Frankenstein lineups, didn't overplay bench scrubs, wasn't afraid to make major mid-game adjustments (sat Parker the 2nd half on game 6 against the Thunder), actively sought out Kawhi and told him to be more aggressive, and of course designed a pitch perfect gameplan to beat the swarming Miami defense.

Brilliant coach, but as I've said, he thinks his brilliance gives him license to go full mad scientist. His fascination with silly lineups and his obsession with "rest" will continue to cost the Spurs playoff wins.

31 year-old Lebron with ton of miles is averaging 4 MPG more than 24 y-o Kawhi in the playoffs for a deeper Cavs team that's 10-1 and blowing out East teams left and right :lol..

Prose
05-23-2016, 06:18 AM
Tbh Pop just isn't hungry anymore.

i agree, its hard to be hungry when you have achieved everything there is to achieve...just look at the spurs fans in the at&t compared to spurs fans back in 99. We are all guilty of this.

DJR210
05-23-2016, 07:28 AM
why do people act like pop has never been criticized? remember 2013?

Plenty of outlets criticize Pop, but the local paper here isn't really known for it, even when warranted.

YGWHI
05-23-2016, 08:32 AM
Tbh Pop just isn't hungry anymore.
Before game 6...
730389548488785920

2-11 Pop's career in elimination games on the road, it doesn't seem a matter of being hungry. It's more an issue of late game decisions, he wasn't great at it in his whole career.

K...
05-23-2016, 09:56 AM
Pop sucks a coaching= the right players weren't there.

Butler>kmart, boban> west, Kyle> kawhi plays the full game

That's your argument. The losses were close, so maybe just rolling the dice would be a win, but the argument that pop sucks is so petty.






Pop's weird lineups are a sign we can't win a straight up battle with the players on the roster. Imagine,a team with no healthy 5, and ancient or streaky shooting guards. That's not a championship team in any year.

kobyz
05-23-2016, 10:08 AM
Pop build here the last couple of years such a vanilla and soft atmosphere that players don't get push to give their all and to play into standards...

houston spurs fan
05-23-2016, 10:45 AM
The NBA version of Joe Girardi.
Joe has 5 Championships? He's Belichick. Just like last year when Bill elected to kick off in overtime. Pop and Belichick have tons in common. They tend to overthink, over tinker....

TheGreatYacht
05-23-2016, 11:47 AM
Pop sucks a coaching= the right players weren't there.

Butler>kmart, boban> west, Kyle> kawhi plays the full game

That's your argument. The losses were close, so maybe just rolling the dice would be a win, but the argument that pop sucks is so petty.






Pop's weird lineups are a sign we can't win a straight up battle with the players on the roster. Imagine,a team with no healthy 5, and ancient or streaky shooting guards. That's not a championship team in any year.
You're kidding yourself if you think this roster was bad :lol

Also this terrible logic of yours won't change anybody's mind. You're saying the players lost, and Pop is untouchable... What about when they ring? I bet Pop had to do with that more than the players, huh lmao

You're making everyone's argument for them. Pop ain't shit without riding coattails

spurs10
05-23-2016, 12:03 PM
Or at the very least, the closest thing you can get to an article critical of Pop. Excerpt from Buck Harvey's article:


http://www.expressnews.com/sports/columnists/buck_harvey/article/Power-of-a-voice-Popovich-knows-how-fragile-this-7929650.php?t=e2575c36e9ebaa2aab&cmpid=twitter-premium
I'm guessing Pop agrees with most of this and thinks Donovan did an excellent job. 4 of the games were really close and had some ridiculously bad calls that likely changed the outcome. Was Pop out-coached or was OKC just better on the boards and luckier? I was actually surprised we were poised to win games 2, 4, & 5 when we were getting clobbered on the boards. Could Boban had made a difference? That looked like our only option on the rebound discrepancy.

poop
05-23-2016, 12:27 PM
It all started in 2009..thats when the bonner debacle began also...
The entire season we had a 6-11, 22yr old athletic black center (mahinmi) who literally sat on the bench the entire season while pop put MATT BONNER as our STARTING CENTER THE ENTIRE SEASON...duncan was literally the only big we had out there the whole season. We got outrebounded and killed by opposing bigs the whole year while duncan struggled valiantly all alone, as a 22yr old 6-11 athletic kid watched from the bench all year.
To this day, bonner is still on the team, and has single handedly caused us to lose far better players, simply because pop could never part with bonner.

And of course, theres keith 'the centerpeice' bogans
Michael 'he hasnt lost a step' finley
Jacque vaughn
Giving mcgrady literally zero pt all 2013
The list goes on and on

Horse
05-23-2016, 12:28 PM
We all know Pop fucked up but the only adjusment to the refs is to blow out your opponent. Not sure how you plan for that.

Kikoluna
05-23-2016, 04:12 PM
My biggest issue was kyle f#! $/ing Anderson playing. Blew my mind.

MultiTroll
05-23-2016, 05:01 PM
Or at the very least, the closest thing you can get to an article critical of Pop. Excerpt from Buck Harvey's article:

One title in 9 years with the rosters he has had.
Is that reasonable? Hall of Fame?

Taking it to the Hole
05-23-2016, 05:11 PM
The latest casualty of Pop's "system" is Jonathan Simmons. The only other guy we had on our roster that has balls and athleticism and Pop puts him in the doghouse for all eternity because Simmon's made a couple of mistakes in game while Manu can toss up brick after brick, make stupid passes and Enrique can turnover the ball repeatedly and get smoked on defense, but what Simmons does is much, much worse in his eyes. I know that there is some loyalty that must be extended to your legends but when your legends are hurting your team, you need to have the balls to make the pragmatic choice and go with what works until it stops working. I laugh and laugh when I hear media suck ups comment during games that Pop treats every player on the roster the same because this is simply not true. Anybody can see with even a basic knowledge of basketball that he plays favorites every game and instead of letting go of the reins he tightens them up and the result is damaging the potential of good players and preventing them from being great all in the great belief that the ideology he has created is infallible.

spurs10
05-23-2016, 05:23 PM
One title in 9 years with the rosters he has had.
Is that reasonable? Hall of Fame? Or 5 titles in 15 years...or 3 titles in 7 years...4 titles in 9 years. I guess if you don't want to count 4 titles you could say one title in nine years.

Keepin' it real
05-23-2016, 05:30 PM
One title in 9 years with the rosters he has had.
Is that reasonable? Hall of Fame?

Nobody was winning a title with Matt Bonner playing meaningful minutes like he did from 2009-2012. So that's 4 asterisk years right there.

skulls138
05-23-2016, 05:33 PM
Pop is either Jesus Christ reincarnated or pond scum, no in-between :lol

objective
05-23-2016, 05:41 PM
It all started in 2009..thats when the bonner debacle began also...
The entire season we had a 6-11, 22yr old athletic black center (mahinmi) who literally sat on the bench the entire season while pop put MATT BONNER as our STARTING CENTER THE ENTIRE SEASON...duncan was literally the only big we had out there the whole season. We got outrebounded and killed by opposing bigs the whole year while duncan struggled valiantly all alone, as a 22yr old 6-11 athletic kid watched from the bench all year.
To this day, bonner is still on the team, and has single handedly caused us to lose far better players, simply because pop could never part with bonner.

And of course, theres keith 'the centerpeice' bogans
Michael 'he hasnt lost a step' finley
Jacque vaughn
Giving mcgrady literally zero pt all 2013
The list goes on and on

No bigger critic of how pop screwed over Mahinmi and the team than me. But the year Bonner started all those games 08-09 was Ian's second year and he was out all year with injury. He broker off a bone chip in his ankle that never turned up in tests over the summer at a big man camp. He was diagnosed with sprains that never healed and when he finally had the exploratory surgery that found the problem he was knocked out for the year.

His third and final year was definitely screwed up by Pop. But Mcdyess and Blair started most of the games next to Duncan.

MultiTroll
05-23-2016, 05:45 PM
Or 5 titles in 15 years...or 3 titles in 7 years...4 titles in 9 years. I guess if you don't want to count 4 titles you could say one title in nine years.
The previous 4 were outstanding for sure. Rest on laurels after that?
After the 2007 'Ship until now.
Chronological.

Without
Prime Duncan
Prime GNob
Prime Parker
Prime Bowen
Prime Horry
Great benches including DRob, Kerr, Man From Nazr when Spurs were allowed to have their nutts intact in Tall Balls,
etc etc.


Spurs then had to rely on coaching to make the difference.
2014, that's it.

tholdren
05-23-2016, 05:48 PM
this article wasn't critical. NEXT

Keepin' it real
05-23-2016, 05:55 PM
this article wasn't critical. NEXT

Sure it was. Just because it lacks racist, sexist and generally vulgar language like you see here doesn't make it non-critical.

skulls138
05-23-2016, 05:56 PM
I honestly thought he got over his coaching glitches in 2014. He pretty much coached a perfect run. Didn't screw around with Frankenstein lineups, didn't overplay bench scrubs, wasn't afraid to make major mid-game adjustments (sat Parker the 2nd half on game 6 against the Thunder), actively sought out Kawhi and told him to be more aggressive, and of course designed a pitch perfect gameplan to beat the swarming Miami defense.

Brilliant coach, but as I've said, he thinks his brilliance gives him license to go full mad scientist. His fascination with silly lineups and his obsession with "rest" will continue to cost the Spurs playoff wins.I agree with this though I think losing to OKC had more to do with OKC realizing that they are better when they play as a team than Pops being outcoached. Talent wise Durant and Westbrook are the best duo in the league AND they have the best bigs. All they lacked is it all coming together. That and the big 3 didnt have enough left. Signing LMA was supposed to make up for any lack of youth in our vets but it wasnt enough.

What I agree about is Pops mucking around too much. I just dont agree with taking Duncan out as much as he did. Yes you rest him but you also rust him. People with aches and pains need to stay warm and get rhythm and Pops doesnt seem to take that into account. And why in an elimination game do you give 3rd string players major minutes? Right there you send a message saying we arent as good as OKC.

TheDoctor
05-23-2016, 06:24 PM
Pop sucks a coaching= the right players weren't there.

Butler>kmart, boban> west, Kyle> kawhi plays the full game

That's your argument. The losses were close, so maybe just rolling the dice would be a win, but the argument that pop sucks is so petty.






Pop's weird lineups are a sign we can't win a straight up battle with the players on the roster. Imagine,a team with no healthy 5, and ancient or streaky shooting guards. That's not a championship team in any year.

This why SpursTalk rules and Pounding the Cock sucks. Here the people are real and not brainwashed. Pop got outcoached pure and simple. Please don't try to hide it.

Snaq O'Meal
05-23-2016, 07:00 PM
Pop is either Jesus Christ reincarnated or pond scum, no in-between :lol

Jesus Christ practices forgiveness while petty Poop discriminates players with his doghouse treatment. So yeah, he's pond scum. :lol

tholdren
05-23-2016, 08:38 PM
Sure it was. Just because it lacks racist, sexist and generally vulgar language like you see here doesn't make it non-critical.
The article said that maybe in 2 years pop may need to go away. HOW "critical". Spurs need to get rid of Becky, she's a woman, and any minority affiliated with the organization. SHIT.

J_Paco
05-23-2016, 09:22 PM
Coach make player miss shot, coach make okc play bad in regular season but good in playoffs, coach make Kawhi too tired in fourth,, coach make mills shoulder die,, coach make Boris bored, coach make lma blow load in game 2, coach make Parker old, coach fuck Duncan's knee. Bad coach, crazy bad

There's is no adjustments Pop could have made to beat both Oklahoma City and Golden State, but it's easier for fans to just blame him.

He had too many variables go against him and the added issue of little front court size plus players that weren't desperate enough.

Not that I don't believe Pop has made a ton of errors throughout his time in SA, but fans are both spoiled and delusional if they believe it is "all his fault."

Nbadan
05-23-2016, 11:05 PM
There's is no adjustments Pop could have made to beat both Oklahoma City and Golden State, but it's easier for fans to just blame him.

He had too many variables go against him and the added issue of little front court size plus players that weren't desperate enough.

Not that I don't believe Pop has made a ton of errors throughout his time in SA, but fans are both spoiled and delusional if they believe it is "all his fault."

That's loser talk....POP had the better players, POP had the better bench.....that is plain getting out-coached....

rmt
05-23-2016, 11:58 PM
Leonard should have played more. Lebron played almost 46 minutes tonight.

Ginobilly
05-24-2016, 12:02 AM
There's is no adjustments Pop could have made to beat both Oklahoma City and Golden State, but it's easier for fans to just blame him.

He had too many variables go against him and the added issue of little front court size plus players that weren't desperate enough.

Not that I don't believe Pop has made a ton of errors throughout his time in SA, but fans are both spoiled and delusional if they believe it is "all his fault."



Wrong!

He could of started Boban next to Aldridge and Bring Duncan off the Bench. He should of played Simmons over mills. Why didn't he use this lineup: Aldridge,Leonard,Green,Simmons,Ginobili? This is our most athletic and talented lineup, and you have quickness and size at every position. West, mills,Anderson, Bobo are absolute trash and shouldn't be in the league.

SAGirl
05-24-2016, 01:00 AM
If Timmy doesn't blow his gasket midseason and had not shown up to the playoffs looking like the ghost of Timmy's future we don't lose the series. We needed him, but he's done as an elite player. Father time is undefeated and it is what it is. There were many other things, bench bigs, bench production, referring, whatever, but if we had gotten Timmy and not the ghost of Timmy's future, we have a different outcome. End of story. HoF player was not going to be replaced easily by D west. It's just easier from fans here to blame Pop than to recognize Timmy and Manu were caught up by Father time and the rest of the guys were not enough.

davidbowie
05-24-2016, 01:07 AM
you guys complain a lot

Keepin' it real
05-24-2016, 08:22 AM
Wrong!

He could of started Boban next to Aldridge and Bring Duncan off the Bench. He should of played Simmons over mills. Why didn't he use this lineup: Aldridge,Leonard,Green,Simmons,Ginobili? This is our most athletic and talented lineup, and you have quickness and size at every position. West, mills,Anderson, Bobo are absolute trash and shouldn't be in the league.

You're so intelligent. Your basketball IQ is off the charts.

What about 2014? Please review your detailed files and let us know the mistakes Pop made during that playoff run and how you would have done better.

Oh, just one more thing:

https://www.thesaleslion.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/youre-awesome.jpg

J_Paco
05-25-2016, 02:12 AM
you guys complain a lot

Yes, Spur fans complain entirely too much for one of the most successful NBA franchises ever. You would think they were the Atlanta Hawks, Denver Nuggets or something.


If Timmy doesn't blow his gasket midseason and had not shown up to the playoffs looking like the ghost of Timmy's future we don't lose the series. We needed him, but he's done as an elite player. Father time is undefeated and it is what it is. There were many other things, bench bigs, bench production, referring, whatever, but if we had gotten Timmy and not the ghost of Timmy's future, we have a different outcome. End of story. HoF player was not going to be replaced easily by D west. It's just easier from fans here to blame Pop than to recognize Timmy and Manu were caught up by Father time and the rest of the guys were not enough.


I agree, but what's the Warriors excuse? At least we were/are the old dogs so falling apart was inevitable.

UNT Eagles 2016
05-25-2016, 04:48 AM
It's time for Poop to resign or retire. CROFL, outcoached by the likes of Hollins, Brooks, Filibeaner, Tom & a fucking COLLEGE coach in 4 out of 5 years. GTFOH now you old piece of shit and go back to your stupid wine and golf schtick, basketball just isn't for you anymore.


2011 – played the Original Turd Towers the main rotation minutes next to TD against their huge post-heavy lineup instead of Tiago, refused to double/help off their mediocre shooters, couldn't buy a stop against their otherwise ghastly offense when it counted

2012 – lost his shit after the 20 game streak was broken, resorted to isoball instead of the ball movement that got us there, we get backdoor swept

2013 – trotted out 4 perimeter players and a non-rebounding big instead of Duncan or Tiago when we absolutely needed a stop and rebound at the most critical time possible... they get 4 chances to make 2 threes

2015 – Stupid HAJ schtick in bad junctures, couldn't stop them from spamming the P&R 40+ times per game, didn't have a clue

2016 – Turd Towers, Mills, Andershit, no adjustments. Absolutely humiliating.

spursistan
05-25-2016, 06:47 PM
It's time for Poop to resign or retire. CROFL, outcoached by the likes of Hollins, Brooks, Filibeaner, Tom & a fucking COLLEGE coach in 4 out of 5 years. GTFOH now you old piece of shit and go back to your stupid wine and golf schtick, basketball just isn't for you anymore.


2011 – played the Original Turd Towers the main rotation minutes next to TD against their huge post-heavy lineup instead of Tiago, refused to double/help off their mediocre shooters, couldn't buy a stop against their otherwise ghastly offense when it counted

2012 – lost his shit after the 20 game streak was broken, resorted to isoball instead of the ball movement that got us there, we get backdoor swept

2013 – trotted out 4 perimeter players and a non-rebounding big instead of Duncan or Tiago when we absolutely needed a stop and rebound at the most critical time possible... they get 4 chances to make 2 threes

2015 – Stupid HAJ schtick in bad junctures, couldn't stop them from spamming the P&R 40+ times per game, didn't have a clue

2016 – Turd Towers, Mills, Andershit, no adjustments. Absolutely humiliating.

UNT