Pop = one of the worst in-game managers in the league..

[spursistan]

This bullshit has been going on for years now..

Overreacts to meaningless 4-0 runs in first quarter and then double down on a crappy lineup in critical juncture of game, giving a reeling upstart team hope just as they were ready to disintegrate..


I have said it many times: this dude is no longer an asset in the playoffs and none of his coterie of yes men assistants are able to step up to him..

[NASpurs]

This bullshit has been going on for years now..

Overracts to meaningless 4-0 runs in first quarter and then double down on a crappy lineup in critical juncture of game, giving a reeling upstart team hope just as they were ready to disintigrate..


I have said it many times: this dude is no longer an asset in the playoffs and none of his coterie of his yes men assistants are able to step up to him..

:lol I was thinking about that. He called a timeout early when the game was 6-6 but takes it in the ass when the Nuggets go on a 12 point run or whatever it was in the 4th.

[Floyd Pacquiao]

This is why phil>pop. Pop will never go away from his minutes allocation. He's too stubborn.

[RC_Drunkford]

Then calls a time out way too late and continues playing the same line up after that

[apalisoc_9]

Mills-Beli

:lol

[spurs1990]

Worst part about Popovich is he never gets his comeuppance. The 2016 loss to OKC was largely on him too and he never owned up to any mistakes afterwards. He'll shrug this loss off as well with his usual 'it's just basketball' or 'Denver made their shots, we missed ours'.

[ducks]

But he is white old man that is privilege
He can not let becky coach
Stupid liberal idiot

[midnightpulp]

:lol He's been doing this for years. Cost us the 2013 title.

[Kurgan]

The biggest mistake the Spurs franchise ever made was not replacing Pop with Bud in 2015.

[Dennis the Menace]

The biggest mistake the Spurs franchise ever made was not replacing Pop with Bud in 2015.

You can say that again.

[Uriel]

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[ShutUp SayItAgain!]

Then calls a time out way too late and continues playing the same line up after that

:lmao

Oh I can't wait for his smart ass press conference the dumb fuck

[RC_Drunkford]

:lmao

Oh I can't wait for his smart ass press conference the dumb fuck

He'll blame the players. It's never his fault

[ShutUp SayItAgain!]

Worst part about Popovich is he never gets his comeuppance. The 2016 loss to OKC was largely on him too and he never owned up to any mistakes afterwards. He'll shrug this loss off as well with his usual 'it's just basketball' or 'Denver made their shots, we missed ours'.

Would be nice if all the damn reporters started questioning his bs but doubt it

[NASpurs]

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That's bound to happen when you overplay Beli and Mills you old dumb fuck. Way to put the team in position to succeed...

[Spur|n|Austin]

Oh, that was a pretty strategic technical foul there too!

[DPG21920]

One of the worst coached half’s I’ve seen from pop. He deserves majority of the blame

[spursistan]

:lol He's been doing this for years. Cost us the 2013 title.

I remember the one time you said: he always lacked Phil Jackon's ruthlessness and ability to go for the kill..It applies here.

19-point lead over a bunch of upstart pretenders who would probably been swept if he went for his best players for a couple of extra minutes in the third quarter..Now we have a series because of his stubborn overthinking ass..

[Hoops Czar]

I've been saying it for years. I don't know why people are just starting to take notice this year. He's been overrated his entire career but when you have three future hall of famers at your disposal that can erase a lot of the erroneous in game managing and an assistant coach like Bud who can point stupid, I mean Pop in the right direction, it's easy to see how a fanbase can be confused into thinking he's an all-time great.

[RD2191]

This is why phil>pop. Pop will never go away from his minutes allocation. He's too stubborn.

I'm starting to lean Phil tbh

[ShutUp SayItAgain!]

I'm starting to lean Phil tbh

[Hoops Czar]

I'm starting to lean Phil tbh
Phil was nothing without Jordan or Shaq/Kobe.

[RD2191]

Iirc it was the 2013 Finals (Game 6?) going into the 4th and we were up 10. Instead of going for the kill this worthless fuck throws out one of the most retarded fucking rotations and let's the heat back in the game with all the momentum. Fuck this clown.

[TDMVPDPOY]

millsap and plumlee in foul trouble, yet everyone on the spurs continue to settle for midrange jumpers, instead of attacking down low for points

stupid ddr with teh hero ball bullshit shot selection
forbes with teh rush shots out of nowhere
mills cant defend for shit
lma with the long midrange against midgets

[ShutUp SayItAgain!]

Iirc it was the 2013 Finals (Game 6?) going into the 4th and we were up 10. Instead of going for the kill this worthless fuck throws out one of the most retarded fucking rotations and let's the heat back in the game with all the momentum. Fuck this clown.

Then benches Duncan in the clutch, your leading rebounder and HOFamer, when you need that rebound to close the series and collect the trophey that was being wheeled out :lmao

[Dennis the Menace]

Pop is nothing without Tim Duncan.

[UZER]

I'm starting to lean Phil tbh

It’s always been Phil. Been saying this forever. Pop cannot get out of his own way. Never coaches to what’s happening in the game in the moment with his lineups. He has a pregame plan and that’s how he coaches the entire game.

:lol Those damn “Chaos Theory” note cards.

[Stabula]

Both Phil Jackson and Pop are good but very overrated coaches due to having a constant luxury of superstar talent. That being said I don't think most of you actually think Jackson is better than Pop, you're just really mad over the loss. Understandable but try to see through your temporary hatred.

[DAF86]

If Manu hadn't come off the bench almost his entire career Pop might have gone with stretches of Jacque Vaughn, Michael Finley, Ime Udoka perimeters on playoffs games, tbh. :lol

[RD2191]

Then benches Duncan in the clutch, your leading rebounder and HOFamer, when you need that rebound to close the series and collect the trophey that was being wheeled out :lmao

Fucking forgot about that shit. :lol

[TheGreatYacht]

I put this on his loved ones, I could've sworn the team turned it over after every time out in the second half...

[Mugen]

Have you guys just started watching the Spurs this year tbh? :lmao

Pop has done this countless times in pretty much every series in the last 10 years...

Not playing Beli / Forbes/ Patty together seems like a no-brainer but the old man decided playing Derozan and White more than 32 mins this game would be unfair to the rest of the team....

[timtonymanu]

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Coaching 101 that a Mills/Forbes/Beli lineup will get destroyed on defense more times than not. But I guess it's all on the players as usual :pop: :rolleyes

[spursistan]

Also that tech in a 2-point contest on the road with 3 min to go .

If you are not the adult in the room at that point in the game, you need to GTFO and retire..

[ShutUp SayItAgain!]

Have you guys just started watching the Spurs this year tbh? :lmao

Pop has done this countless times in pretty much every series in the last 10 years...

Not playing Beli / Forbes/ Patty together seems like a no-brainer but the old man decided playing Derozan and White more than 32 mins this game would be unfair to the rest of the team....

lol Spurs would have at least another 2 or 3 championships if it weren't for the stubborn old piece of shit. At least 2 or 3 more.

[Kurgan]

Would be nice if all the damn reporters started questioning his bs but doubt it

San Antonio sports media is a lot like the LA sports media. Only vanilla, positive press is allowed. Criticism of the team or front office will result in you being blacklisted by the team.

[NASpurs]

It's like playing a team of Mugsy Bogues, Spudd Webb, Nate Robinson, Isiah Thomas and some other midget and complain about getting outrebounded. :lol

[Chomag]

Yes we did give up 39 pts in the 4th Pop and I'm sure your shit line ups had nothing to do with it....

[ShutUp SayItAgain!]

San Antonio sports media is a lot like the LA sports media. Only vanilla, positive press is allowed. Criticism of the team or front office will result in you being blacklisted by the team.

Yes I was actually told this by a sports producer of a local station in San Antonio years ago

[tknapp777]

Pop sucks. Far too mechanical - not recognizing that Gay FN SUCKED and opting to continue to play him was atrocious. Not realizing that Derozan and White needed stay in the game towards the end of the 3rd was unforgivable. He’s too old and too stubborn to do anything to stem the tide. This loss is bad.

[emanueldavidginobili]

Fat ass Jokic played 39 minutes and White played 32 lmao

[UZER]

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Trump criticism from Pop coming tomorrow.

[tknapp777]

Pop sucks. Far too mechanical - not recognizing that Gay FN SUCKED and opting to continue to play him was atrocious. Not realizing that Derozan and White needed stay in the game towards the end of the 3rd was unforgivable. He’s too old and too stubborn to do anything to stem the tide. This loss is bad.

[superbigtime]

One of the worst coached half’s I’ve seen from pop. He deserves majority of the blame

Yep. Very pissed.

[$pursDynasty]

Coaching 101 that a Mills/Forbes/Beli lineup will get destroyed on defense more times than not. But I guess it's all on the players as usual :pop: :rolleyes
The lineup Pop starts the 4th with sucks unless they are up 20+, but he refuses to change

[Hoops Czar]

One of the worst coached half’s I’ve seen from pop. He deserves majority of the blame
Even worst than game 6 of the 2016 western conference semis vs OKC? Wow, that is bad.

[ElNono]

:lol Then he won’t foul up 3 coz :cry it’s not fair to the other team :cry I don’t believe in it :cry

[NASpurs]

:lol Then he won’t foul up 3 coz :cry it’s not fair to the other team :cry I don’t believe in it :cry

What grade do you think Pop's going to get?

B-?

[UZER]

The lineup Pop starts the 4th with sucks unless they are up 20+, but he refuses to change

It’s the same things that happened to start the 4th in game 6 of the finals in 2013. Shitty lineup. Miami immediately cuts a big lead down. Pop calls a timeout...and sends the same lineup out there. :lol

[ElNono]

What grade do you think Pop's going to get?

B-?

Maybe we’ll get a quick reaction instead so we don’t need to see grades :lol

[objective]

Have you guys just started watching the Spurs this year tbh? :lmao

Pop has done this countless times in pretty much every series in the last 10 years...

Not playing Beli / Forbes/ Patty together seems like a no-brainer but the old man decided playing Derozan and White more than 32 mins this game would be unfair to the rest of the team....

True, it wouldn't be fair to the team

I remember White's defensive coming out party in a loss to Houston earlier in the year, and he was killing harden on defense. Instead of matching minutes Pop went with the usual clowns and of course they lose.

Barring foul trouble White shouldn't play a single minute less than Murray

[NASpurs]

Maybe we’ll get a quick reaction instead so we don’t need to see grades :lol

crofl

[spursistan]

Also I'm still of the view that having underwhelming assistants with zero personalty isn't helping things..

Spurs having no clear heir apparent to Pop is telling in a way.

[tknapp777]

Pop sucks. Far too mechanical - not recognizing that Gay FN SUCKED and opting to continue to play him was atrocious. Not realizing that Derozan and White needed stay in the game towards the end of the 3rd was unforgivable. He’s too old and too stubborn to do anything to stem the tide. This loss is bad.

[HarlemHeat37]

Spurs would have been a 20-win team without Pop this season, tbh.. tonight was one of the worst performances of his coaching career, though, can't lie..

[Thomas82]

Worst part about Popovich is he never gets his comeuppance. The 2016 loss to OKC was largely on him too and he never owned up to any mistakes afterwards. He'll shrug this loss off as well with his usual 'it's just basketball' or 'Denver made their shots, we missed ours'.

In 2016 OKC killed us on the glass. I said throughout the whole series that Duncan and Aldridge's minutes should have been staggered. One of them should have been on the floor at all times. Pop kept playing Diaw and West together despite the size disadvantage. Another thing that works against Pop is his prejudice towards rookies. OKC had more big bodies than us, but we had the biggest body out there in Boban and Pop didn't even give him a chance.

[HarlemHeat37]

Malone coached poorly, as well, which helped the Spurs..sticking with Will Barton for so long was painful to watch, even cheering against them..

[ShutUp SayItAgain!]

Maybe we’ll get a quick reaction instead so we don’t need to see grades :lol

Real grades wouldn't be fair to Pop

[$pursDynasty]

Pop never rides the hot hand, a Spur can score 18 points unanswered and Pop will sub them out for 10 minutes. He is a cooler. LMA top scorer in game at end of first quarter doesn't get back in til 7 minutes left in half and isn't the focal point. Pop kills momentum for his own team with substitutions as much as he does for opposing teams with timeouts.

[NASpurs]

Pop sucks. Far too mechanical - not recognizing that Gay FN SUCKED and opting to continue to play him was atrocious. Not realizing that Derozan and White needed stay in the game towards the end of the 3rd was unforgivable. He’s too old and too stubborn to do anything to stem the tide. This loss is bad.

Yeah bro, we read your post the first time.

[Hoops Czar]

Spurs would have been a 20-win team without Pop this season, tbh.. tonight was one of the worst performances of his coaching career, though, can't lie..

:lmao never change Harlem, never change!

[ShutUp SayItAgain!]

Pop never rides the hot hand, a Spur can score 18 points unanswered and Pop will sub them out for 10 minutes. He is a cooler. LMA top scorer in game at end of first quarter doesn't get back in til 7 minutes left in half and isn't the focal point. Pop kills momentum for his own team with substitutions as much as he does for opposing teams with timeouts.

Sadly he's done this for years. I remember we lost the the Clippers in the playoffs when we were hot bc Pop randomly went to hack a Jordan. Season ends bc of that stupid bs

[RD2191]

Pop sucks. Far too mechanical - not recognizing that Gay FN SUCKED and opting to continue to play him was atrocious. Not realizing that Derozan and White needed stay in the game towards the end of the 3rd was unforgivable. He’s too old and too stubborn to do anything to stem the tide. This loss is bad.

Great post. First time I've ever read it. Tbh

[DPG21920]

Spurs would have been a 20-win team without Pop this season, tbh.. tonight was one of the worst performances of his coaching career, though, can't lie..

That’s a bit of hyperbole (the 20 wins) but absolutely. Pop did an incredible job this year. The criticism from this 2nd half has nothing to do with that. It’s a one game evaluation. He lost the game for SA.

[tbdog]

Pop is an excellent coach. He out coached Malone in the first 2 and half quarters. Going with the iso Gay with 3 shooters has worked in the pass. Gay unable to go one on one with Plumlee. Nuggets go going in transition and Forbes/Beli/Mills are poor transition defenders. Pop riding his two stars and white is all he could have done better here. Really, Gay should be torching Plumlee.

[$pursDynasty]

Pop needs to adjust rotations for playoffs too many times scrubs on the court at the same time

[TDMVPDPOY]

Pop is an excellent coach. He out coached Malone in the first 2 and half quarters. Going with the iso Gay with 3 shooters has worked in the pass. Gay unable to go one on one with Plumlee. Nuggets go going in transition and Forbes/Beli/Mills are poor transition defenders. Pop riding his two stars and white is all he could have done better here. Really, Gay should be torching Plumlee.

how many times when out coach the other teams coach, yet nobody on here calls him out when he t ried to outcoach himself doing stupid shit to prove everyone wrong?

[Hoops Czar]

That’s a bit of hyperbole (the 20 wins) but absolutely. Pop did an incredible job this year. The criticism from this 2nd half has nothing to do with that. It’s a one game evaluation. He lost the game for SA.
I think the hyperbole you're looking for is being a 20 win team with the mess of a roster he created. He's the best of the worst of the deadheads on the bench but to think another coach can't come in here and coach this team to 20-30+ wins is being quite shortsighted.

[Spur|n|Austin]

Phil was nothing without Jordan or Shaq/Kobe.

What great coach wasn’t great without their star players?

[spursistan]

Pop sucks. Far too mechanical - not recognizing that Gay FN SUCKED and opting to continue to play him was atrocious. Not realizing that Derozan and White needed stay in the game towards the end of the 3rd was unforgivable. He’s too old and too stubborn to do anything to stem the tide. This loss is bad.

[**BUSTA**]

2013 , 2015 , 2016 .
Three of the last four seasons of Tim Duncan .
Playoffs were masterpieces of maestro Gregg Popovich .

[Hoops Czar]

What great coach wasn’t great without their star players?
That's how a catch-22 works. You're not considered great unless you win and you can't win unless you have great players. Phil had his chance in New York to instill his triangle offense with the Knicks and it backfired immensely. Coach Pop is a master motivator but from an X's and O's standpoint, he's subpar.

[daslicer]

2013 , 2015 , 2016 .
Three of the last four seasons of Tim Duncan .
Playoffs were masterpieces of maestro Gregg Popovich .

He screwed up in '13 and '15. I agree with you on that one. '16 Duncan was washed once the playoffs started. That's what really killed the Spurs chances of winning.

[rascal]

Doug Moe was a great coach. Had the 1979 team in the finals if the refs didn't screw the Spurs.

[Hoops Czar]

2013 , 2015 , 2016 .
Three of the last four seasons of Tim Duncan .
Playoffs were masterpieces of maestro Gregg Popovich .
OKC made one adjustment by putting Adams on LMA and the series was a wash. Re-watch game 6 again and tell me with a straight face how that game was a masterpeice by Pop.

[objective]

Pop was outcoached by Avery, who was ran out of the NBA and can't even keep a job in college

[Dennis the Menace]

Tim Duncan won 5 championships in spite of Pop

[spursistan]

Tim Duncan won 5 championships in spite of Pop

[spursistan]

What will take for Derrick White to play 35-40 minutes a game like a 24-year-old , most valuable player on the team is supposed to do..

Why is Pop is fuckin' allergic to playing young guys?

[ShutUp SayItAgain!]

Tim Duncan won 5 championships in spite of Pop

Yup. Should have had another 2 or 3 more, minimum

[TimDunkem]

What will take for Derrick White to play 35-40 minutes a game like a 24-year-old , most valuable player on the team is supposed to do..

Why is Pop is fuckin' allergic to playing young guys?

Gotta save him for when he's 34 and Pop is still starting him.

[MultiTroll]

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Patty and Beli can hold Denver to 39 4th qtr points.

[RC_Drunkford]

He screwed up in '13 and '15. I agree with you on that one. '16 Duncan was washed once the playoffs started. That's what really killed the Spurs chances of winning.

Pop got outcoached in that series cause he had to stick to his stupid rotations just like in this game. He kept playing West/Diaw together and didn't stagger LA/Duncan to have a true Center out there. That was the key to the series. Kind of like last night when he benched White and DeRozan and played a back court of Mills/Belinelli. We've seen this movie before

[spursistan]

Great regular season coach, I will give him that..

Bottom tier playoffs coach..

You could argue that there hasn't been a series this decade that he hadn't had a hand in Spurs losing it or getting extended unnecessarily..

Rocket's '17 WCSF was the only playoffs series Pop managed perfectly..

[UncleDennis]

I remember the one time you said: he always lacked Phil Jackon's ruthlessness and ability to go for the kill..It applies here.

19-point lead over a bunch of upstart pretenders who would probably been swept if he went for his best players for a couple of extra minutes in the third quarter..Now we have a series because of his stubborn overthinking ass..

fucking spot on man, Denver already showed they were capable of making big runs (in the same damn game for that matter) and those extra minutes with all the valuable guys on the bench sure helped the spurs "energy levels" in the 4th right? The luxury of pre-set tight minute plans and what not are relics of the big 3 era, at this point what's he saving them for, an early vacation?

[Roscoe P. Coltrane]

Even worst than game 6 of the 2016 western conference semis vs OKC? Wow, that is bad.Even worst is when he went to the hack a Jordan against the Clippers killing all the momentum the Spurs had in 2015 against the clippers.

[Mikeanaro]

That's how a catch-22 works. You're not considered great unless you win and you can't win unless you have great players. Phil had his chance in New York to instill his triangle offense with the Knicks and it backfired immensely. Coach Pop is a master motivator but from an X's and O's standpoint, he's subpar.
At that point, and with those Knicks players triagle offense was like disco music.
Phil phell phlat.

[Kobe'sAchilles]

Tbh this is how Pop has always coached. Give the ball to the best player in iso situations. He did it with Duncan, Manu, and Tony. Now he is doing it with DeRozan (over white which I feel is a mistake). Sometimes it works and sometimes it doesn't. It's a shitty 90's strategy which doesn't work anymore. Ask OKC how they're doing with Westbrook pulling the same crap.

[objective]

Pop got outcoached in that series cause he had to stick to his stupid rotations just like in this game. He kept playing West/Diaw together and didn't stagger LA/Duncan to have a true Center out there. That was the key to the series. Kind of like last night when he benched White and DeRozan and played a back court of Mills/Belinelli. We've seen this movie before

Just remembering Fake Tough Guy David West pisses me off. He got absolutely slaughtered by the OKC bigs.

But because he was a veteran who 'sacrificed' to come to the Spurs that meant he was untouchable in Pop's eyes. Pop just fell in love with him like he did with the washed up Finley. West could do no wrong, he was set in stone.

Mills is in the same boat.

[ShutUp SayItAgain!]

Even worst is when he went to the hack a Jordan against the Clippers killing all the momentum the Spurs had in 2015 against the clippers.

All for no reason whatsoever. We were on a run about to murder them lol

[spurraider21]

Then benches Duncan in the clutch, your leading rebounder and HOFamer, when you need that rebound to close the series and collect the trophey that was being wheeled out :lmao


Fucking forgot about that shit. :lol
they were selling our shit

[kobyz]

That what happened when all those years the pathetic fanbase of the Spurs don't hold him accountable, that what created this full of himself shit, that losing 20 point lead in a playoff game is a day in his office...

[TD 21]

:lmao At White, the player with the top net rating on the team and the one who he's said (to paraphrase) allows the team to make sense, averaging only 30 mpg through 2 games. It would probably be slightly higher if not for 1st quarter foul trouble in game 1, but still.

Aldridge and DeRozan can routinely log 36-40 minutes, but a much younger player can't? Especially considering he's the glue that holds this ill-conceived roster together.

Not only should White and DeRozan obviously be staggered from mid 1st/3rd to early 2nd/4th, but when they're in the process of (predictably) squandering the opportunity to inflict irreparable damage on the psyche of a bunch of playoff neophytes, White damn sure can't sit for 6-7 consecutive minutes.

:lmao At having Bertans periodically defend Millsap, when it was obvious beforehand that he should never defend him and it's the surest possible source of offense in this series.

Now, having said all that, even if the genius pulls the right strings, I never for a second thought they were going to pull it out. My only thought when it got back to 19 in the 3rd was, how quickly before the lead vanishes? This series is sitting on a platter for these losers, but even though I said beforehand the game 1 winner takes the series, I'm not going to pretend to have an ounce of confidence in them coming through.

[K...]

Do y'all think the Leonard saga made pop gun shy about young players being ridden so hard? Like maybe White has an overt minutes restriction, or maybe pop is erring on the side of dynamic load management

[Down Under]

Meh, Nuggets were getting the same clean looks in the 4th from Mid range & outside as in the previous 7 quarters of the series. They were going to hit just about everything at some point as they were missing those same looks they had all season.

[SouthTexasRancher]

I've said it before and I'll say it again...Pop should have retired when Timmy did. Pop is too damn stubborn and getting senile. Too many good young coaches in the league now and they out coach Pop and too many really good GM's that are a lot better at picking good talent than RC is these days. Booze has taken its toll on certain people!. :drunk

[r0drig0lac]

Meh, Nuggets were getting the same clean looks in the 4th from Mid range & outside as in the previous 7 quarters of the series. They were going to hit just about everything at some point as they were missing those same looks they had all season.

this

[KDKSpurs24]

I've said it before and I'll say it again...Pop should have retired when Timmy did. Pop is too damn stubborn and getting senile. Too many good young coaches in the league now and they out coach Pop and too many really good GM's that are a lot better at picking good talent than RC is these days. Booze has taken its toll on certain people!. :drunk
He made the WCF after Tim retired..

[Dennis the Menace]

Kawhi made the WCF after Tim retired..

Fixed it for you.

[jjktkk]

Booze has taken its toll on me when I post sometimes. :drunk

[SouthTexasRancher]

He made the WCF after Tim retired..

And just where are the key guys (defensive) from that team? KaWhitter, Danny Green, Kyle Anderson to name three defensive stalwarts. Pop did not work very hard to keep any of them. Instead he way overpaid Pau Gasol and Patty Mills.

[SouthTexasRancher]

JJTheKuKluixKlan bozo. You should probably quit posting and stick to masturbating with tweezers. Pull that Silly Putty out of your ears and stop telling people that it is your brain. You don't have a brain, numb nuts.