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Originally Posted by kobyz
Also bingo, well the first half. The second half, yuck.Quote:
Originally Posted by look_at_g_shred
Some folks in this fanbase truly spoiled and completely delusional. As if any other coach, including Phil Jackson, Pat Riley and Red Auerbach (all big market coaches, people), could possibly squeezed this much success and good fortune outo this group.
Expected the long rest got the team out of wack....just stop with this bullshit and start prepping for playoffs...i hate to lose Game 1 at home because we coasted our asses to it..
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Originally Posted by DrunkTXLabrat
I hope we get someone in the draft this summer or a prospect from overseas like Bertans next season.
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Originally Posted by J_Paco
Like Jackson, Riley and Auerbach couldn't play a generational talent like Tim Duncan in his prime...
Pop likes to rest players in the playoffs too. He rested Duncan in game 6 against the Heat.
Pop's late-game decisions were awful in last seasons but some people don't want to admit it.Quote:
Originally Posted by UZER
He rested Tony, Danny, Manu, and Tiago in the series against the Clippers last year.Quote:
Originally Posted by UZER
It isn't just about Tim Duncan, dumbass. He's cultivated and maintained a culture of winning without a big market or deep pockets to back him up. Popovich, as much as Duncan, is responsible for all the winning and success of the last 19 seasons and counting. Auerbach, Jackson and Riley had big markets and deep - pocketed ownership to help them surround their generational talent with help. Parker and Ginobili became HOF quality players out of simingly nowhere, while Robinson was already here when Duncan/Popovich arrived and Kawhi has been an revelation built through hard work and a great development staff.Quote:
Originally Posted by YGWHI
Tim Duncan deserves the bulk of the credit for Spurs success. I wonder if Pop could have built a winning franchise without him... But I can see Tim playing for Phil, Riley or Auerbach and winning at least 3 rings.Quote:
Originally Posted by J_Paco
He doesn't get a ring in 13-14, nor come within a few seconds the year before, under any of those other coaches, because they would have worn him out. I don't think any other coach would have started trimming Tim's minutes down as early as Pop did. That alone got Tim another ring, and potentially a shot at two more.Quote:
Originally Posted by YGWHI
It's hard to make the argument that Riley/Jackson would have been better for sure. With TD leading the way, we won 4 rings over 8 years with Pop as coach. It's a big call to say that Riley/Jackson could have led us to more than that. After 2007 we started to feel the effects of injuries and ongoing personnel issues (hello Dick Jeff) and it wasn't until we drafted Kawhi that things started to turn around. I don't think any other coach could have set up the kind of system that's let the Spurs continue to be a dominant force in basketball almost two decades from when TD first entered the league - and I don't see the point in trying to argue that we would have won more rings in the prime years (99-2007) - maybe we would, maybe we wouldn't but the fact is that 4 rings in 8 seasons is nothing to complain about. Basically no other team has managed to keep that kind of longevity.
The only other team that comes close is the Lakers, winning 5 rings in 11 years. But there was a huge transitional period where they really, really sucked for a long time until deliverance came in the form of Pau Gasol - and just look where they are Post-Pau. They didn't build a culture of continued dominance like we've had in San Antonio. Pop is the only coach in history to have turned a small-market team into the most successful franchise in modern sports history for 19 years, and STILL showing no signs of slowing down.
Say what you want and bitch all you can about Pop's fuckups at"this minute of this game" but you're a total moron if you think Pop's not a top3 coach of all time and that finding a replacement that could fill his shoes or give us the success that he's given us is incredibly unlikely. Fuck the Pop haters. Top3 coach all time guaranteed, possible best pending this season's results imo.
Shitter was awful. Deandre made him his bitch in game 1 and he never went back to him.Quote:
Originally Posted by GSH
Theres no titles in San Antonio without Pop
Every other fanbase would kill to have him coach their team
His system has turned bad players into starters, decent players into stars and good players into great players
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Originally Posted by Benoit
Maybe. Or Tim could have won more rings in his prime, at least one "repeat" playing for those coaches. Who knows...Quote:
Originally Posted by GSH
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Originally Posted by Benoit
So you're a supposed Warriors fan who shows love for Pop and Parker but talk shit about Kawhi and Green...You sound too much like a Cat Lover Meowing.
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Originally Posted by ElNono
he was supposed to retire with Duncan :depressed