To you, what was Greg Pops best coaching year?

[Fabbs]

To you, what was Greg Pops best coaching year?

[baseline bum]

2014

[Robz4000]

2014

[DMC]

The year he went to St Croix and convinced Tim to spend his entire career in San Antonio.

[whitemamba]

as on outsider 2014 was magical tbh..

[Brazil]

2014 is his masterpiece tbh

[William Hung]

The "I want some nasty" season

[Bynumite]

The season of 6

The coaching was so good he even outcoached himself.

[UNT Eagles 2016]

2003 and 2014. The 2003 team was one of the least talented basketball teams to ever win a championship in NBA history. It was Duncan and a bunch of flawed role players. Everyone else on the team was either too young and raw and inconsistent (well before their prime), or old and broken and way past their prime.

[100%duncan]

2014

[apalisoc_9]

2014 is the best coaching Job I have ever seen in a game of basketball.

[-21-]

2003 and 2014. The 2003 team was one of the least talented basketball teams to ever win a championship in NBA history. It was Duncan and a bunch of flawed role players. Everyone else on the team was either too young and raw and inconsistent (well before their prime), or old and broken and way past their prime.

What the Spurs accomplished in 2003 was mainly due to how great Tim was. 2014 is easily Pop's best year. It would've been easy to leave and just say 'we had a good run' after 2013 but Pop's (and the entire team's) hunger resulted into some of the best basketball ever and redemption.

[Arcadian]

2014 is the obvious choice, but I voted 2005 because it was the hardest championship the Spurs won. To coach a team through long, epic playoff series against very different opponents (an offensive powerhouse in Phoenix and a defensive powerhouse in Detroit) is technically the most impressive thing he ever did.

[Thread]

Obviously---2013. He talked 'em right out of your 1st 5th.

[Fabbs]

^^

Kirby leaves the team
Instantly Lakes are better
Dale wets his mumu

[SpursforSix]

:pop: the year I fucking leave.

[TrainOfThought5]

The year he went to St Croix and convinced Tim to spend his entire career in San Antonio.

Honorable mention tbh

[TrainOfThought5]

The season of 6

The coaching was so good he even outcoached himself.

Lol i chuckled.

[UNT Eagles 2016]

2014 is the obvious choice, but I voted 2005 because it was the hardest championship the Spurs won. To coach a team through long, epic playoff series against very different opponents (an offensive powerhouse in Phoenix and a defensive powerhouse in Detroit) is technically the most impressive thing he ever did.

Not to mention pesky, solid teams in Denver and Seattle who had given us huge fits and split us 2-2 each in the regular season.

[Daniel Sedin]

2013 would have been splendid with all your teams injury alas one boneheaded decision erased it from memory

[Amuseddaysleeper]

2014, followed by 2003 and 2005.

[phxspurfan]

2014 (winning with YMCA ball and resting old guys all season until the Finals), then 2007 (having team defense/Bruce turn LeBron into Nick Young), 2005 (beating the probably better Pistons in game 7 after being curbstomped a few times that series)

[Reck]

The "I want some nasty" season

They got backdoor swept that year. Not memorable at all.

[spurraider21]

easily 2011. the brilliance of having dejuan blair and matt bonner play heavy minutes against gasol and randolph while splitter sat on the bench... unimaginable

[MultiTroll]

Some of you Sniffers are getting bogged down in negativity.

Let's have some love for Pop.

[GAustex]

^ yeah not gonna happen.
Sooner he gone the better

[benefactor]

Why do you still post like you are mentally challenged seven years later?

[Thread]

Definitely not that season when he left Duncan to his own devices and the Spurs ended up ass over the teacup flying back from south Florida without their shit, which they'd sold prematurely back in the aforementioned south Florida.

White woman from town was no pushover, by God.

[lefty]

Pop was carried by Boris Diaw in 2014 tbh

[Thread]

Pop was carried by Boris Diaw in 2014 tbh

...in close association with Stern in New York.

[koriwhat]

Coattails...

[SouthernFryd]

POP has never had a good coaching year.

When we had talent, we won. When we didn't, we lost. Nothing to do with the coach. He did nothing but substitutions in both scenarios. And most of his substitutions sucked, as most fans are aware. We lost a chance for another playoff win in 2009 because of the worst substitutions in basketball history.

[Tyronn Lue]

The basketball IQ in here is in the negatives.

[GAustex]

^ poop taint licker

[Thread]

The basketball IQ in here is in the negatives.

Put 'em on your Ignore List, Lue.

tee, hee.

[Thread]

POP has never had a good coaching year.

When we had talent, we won. When we didn't, we lost. Nothing to do with the coach. He did nothing but substitutions in both scenarios. And most of his substitutions sucked, as most fans are aware. We lost a chance for another playoff win in 2009 because of the worst substitutions in basketball history.

You did yeoman work in my estimation. You won when I wanted ya's to win. You lost when I wanted ya's to lose. Were there exceptions? Sure, nobody is perfect, but you did right by me time & time again. And that I don't forget, ever. It's my religion.

[DeadlyDynasty]

2011 regular season was impressive....but completely undone with putting Bonbon on Z-Bo and Gasol in the playoffs

[baseline bum]

2011 regular season was impressive....but completely undone with putting Bonbon on Z-Bo and Gasol in the playoffs

Nah that team shot their load early. After getting swept by Phoenix the year before they came out pissed and ran up a really strong early season record but were out of gas by March or so and I think the only West team they could have beaten in the first round that year would have been the Hornets. They looked tired as hell in March and April if I remember right. I think that season convinced Duncan to lose a good deal of weight and he came back a lot stronger in 2011-12.

[MarCowMar]

https://www.si.com/nba/magic/news/orlando-tim-duncan-san-antonio-spurs-grant-hill-free-agency-rumors-history-doc-rivers

Does rolling the ball out to Duncan refer to allowing family members on the plane or something else?

""I remember like it was yesterday, we went to dinner, and Tim's girlfriend asked Doc a question: 'can wives and girlfriends travel on the team plane?' You gotta understand, back then it didn't happen, it happens now, but back then it didn't happen. So Doc says, 'no, it's a business trip, it doesn't happen. I don't allow that'. I didn't know that San Antonio had started doing that, and so that's why. "

Also his immoral handling of the Barry/Parker situation was a winners move and he handled it about as slick as could be for a company that pretends to be about family.

For me there will always be pre and post Trump Pop though. I just never can bring myself to trust or respect post-Trump Pop. If he breaks through his TDS there could be a second golden age for Pop though.