Fire Pop

[whottt]

WTF?


Bonner was having the game of his life, we were up nicely...


And then small ball into an 11 point deficit?



Small ball must never be played against the Warriors again, and if it is Pop should fired...this is awful.

[ricketts]

dude, you stole my thread.

seriously though i am trying to figure out what they are up to. it doesn;t even lok like the players know what they are doing. this is really, really ugly ball. dont fire pop though.

[Pistons < Spurs]

It didn't take long for this thread to get started tonight!

[easjer]

The only thing I can guess is that Pop wanted to see if they could work out some of their smallball issues (like lack of D) or what. And the Warriors make a good target for that, because they are such a freak team.

Or, mentioned elsewhere, Pop doesn't really give a shit and wants to make sure he doesn't have to coach the ASG.

[slayermin]

What the hell was Pop thinking?

[BonnerDynasty]

It's bullshit if he is really throwing some games to not have to coach ASG.

It's funny to say, and definitely believable that Pop would do it, but we need Home Court :(

[Cry Havoc]

What the hell was Pop thinking?

I KNOW. OMG. 17 and 4! WE SUCK. POP IS CLUELESS. THE SINGLE REGULAR SEASON LOSS WILL DOOM US ALL.

[JamStone]

Pop really needs to get his act together if he's going to get this team to the playoffs. Stupid idiot.

[twincam]

Pop 'broke' something that was already 'fixed'. Why bring in the cold shooting Manu and Tony when the bench was getting the job done? I just don't understand it.
They cut the lead from 20 to 12 points. Then Pop decides to bring in Manu and Tony, and that just killed them. What gives?

Advise of the night: Never fix something that is not broken

[gospursgooo]

Nobody's perfect... no team's perfect!

[word]

So we lost ? I turned it off in the 2nd quarter. They were making Christmas cookies on the Food Network.

[LaMarcus Bryant]

Also, Udoka was applying masterful full court or 3/4 court defense, THE ENTIRE FOURTH QUARTER, which was combined with Bonner Offense and Rebounds to provide an excellent run.

Udoka was pulled after the timeout and we floundered.

[Cry Havoc]

Advise of the night: Wear your players out until they are worthless come playoffs for a meaningless regular season win

[Udrihlooms]

we have a "fire pop" thread already, now, who's going to start a "Trade Manu or TP?" thread?

[T Park]

:lol @ the coaches in here giving their "insight" I love it.

[SouthernFried]

Really tho, I was surprised Pop brought back Manu and Parker, after it was obvious they ate some bad barbacoa.

The subs got the lead down...let em try and win it.

Other than that, props to Bonner.

[BeerIsGood!]

No big deal. I guessed the Spurs would go 8-4 in December before Duncan got hurt and they're on pace to beat that without him. This isn't a step back, isn't a horrendous coaching error worthy of termination, isn't a sign of anything except that just about everyone except Bonner and Vaughn played like shit in this one game. Manu was due for a bad outing and had one tonight.

[ata]

Fuck Small Ball

[ancestron]

Spurs just couldn't execute, and the perimeter defense was deplorable. I wouldn't blame it on Pop.

[Taco's Troll]

http://espn.go.com/media/nba/2006/0111/photo/a_hill_395.jpg

CAN I START A "BRING BACK BOB HILL!!" THREAD?

:lol

[SpurYank]

Haven't we been down this road before?

Fire Pop? Oh, that's right! We've only won 17 games out of 21. Geez, that's only 81%.

Yup. Fire Pop? How imperfect of him!

[Taco's Troll]

Haven't we been down this road before?

Fire Pop? Oh, that's right! We've only won 17 games out of 21. Geez, that's only 81%.

Yup. Fire Pop? How imperfect of him!


:lmao

DON'T YOU JUST LOVE IT :lol

[Indazone]

Trade Manu for T-Mac! LOL

[RobinsontoDuncan]

i dont think anyone here realizes exactly how far ahead of the curve pop is.... he sees the game changing so he has shaped a roster and a style of play that can adapt to anything... yeah sometimes small ball doesn't work, but who gives a fuck, i think pop is waiting for a guy athletic like Ian to develop enough to be combo forward for this team... i dont know if Ian is that guy, but someone along those lines-- jump out of the gym, plays good D at that basket but can keep up with some of the smaller guys

[ancestron]

Bring back Larry Brown

[AnotherArgie]

Bump.

No, not really, I'm just pissed.

[ShoogarBear]

Bonner was +7 in six minutes of play.

Manu was -13, Barry was -10 and Horry was -8.

[LaMarcus Bryant]

Pop's 2nd to last playcall was very good. But Manu came within 1 inch of turning it over with his pass, and Bowen just missed. And I guess we'll never know his final playcall of the game.

[T Park]

I'll take Bowen shooting that shot 10 out of 10 times.

Evidence?

Game 5 vs the same Suns in Phoenix to win the game and a stranglehold on the series.

[tp2021]

i hate losing close games. i wish we could hit a game winner. the only one i've seen with the spurs as it happened (on TV though) was tim's jumper in cleveland a few seasons back. that was nice.

[duncan228]

i hate losing close games. i wish we could hit a game winner. the only one i've seen with the spurs as it happened (on TV though) was tim's jumper in cleveland a few seasons back. that was nice.

One of my favorite Duncan moments.
It was a pretty shot.
Oh...it was in '05.