Yeah save the "popsucker" comments and what not, I know its coming and I don't care.
IMO this was his best year of coaching and heres why. You take any team, and you give them the injury problems they've had, the lineup problems, slumps to certain players, juggling rookies, youngsters and whatever else, and still win 50+ games, a division le, AND you have a dark horse chance at ANOTHER le?
IMO, this was his best season of coaching yet. He took an Ime Udoka who most of the season looked like a worthless Sacramento King and has turned him into a damn solid player off the bench.
Now has he had his ups and things where hes made you saymultiple times? Sure as . George Hill not being the backup is still dumbfounding to me.
Flame away like I said, I don't care.
IMO, given what he's had to work with? Pop has done his best work.
I don't know if it's his best coaching job. However if you would have told Spurs fans at the beginning of the year that Manu would miss half the season and Duncan's knees didn't work in back-to-backs, no one would have said they'd win the division.
Props to Pop and all the Spurs players.
(Side note: Ime has had a few good games this season, but to me the jury is still out on him.)
Well, I think Ime has had a good month.
I mean it REALLY started in that tough loss against Houston, and ever since then, while some games hav ebeen down, he's actually been pretty decent.
Without looking, I would say that he's probably shot somewhere close to 42-43 percent for the month, but he's done some other good things. I just don't think he's that good, in general. But I hope he can contribute in the postseason.
I give Pop a ton of credit with the last play of regulation. He drew up the best play of the season on the night it mattered most.
I just hope he has a couple more tricks up his sleeve.
Better than I expected but I still question many of his plans. Also I don't think 4 decent games counts as completely turning Ime into a solid bench guy though i do give him props, at least hes playing with confidence
Not only that, if we don't tank and win that game against Denver we would have ended with the #2 seed. Obviously, the whole thing is relative. The West is too packed and has been very, very even in the last couple of seasons. But props for staying ultra compe ive even when the odds didn't look good. To put it in another way, at some point in this season it looked like we could have ended like Phoenix. The fact that we didn't says a lot about this group.
They wouldn't have won that game with everyone, let alone tanking.
Looking back on it, it was probobly a good thing Manu and Timmy didn't play.
Its been way more than that.
Tony didn't play either.
this has been Pop's most frustrating year, from a fan's standpoint. he's too damn stubborn. the 2nd team offense is ineffective. he loves Bonner and Finley's jock too much. the Mason-experiment is a failure. he refuses to start and give Bruce significant minutes and donut's Hill while playing Parker 35+ minutes a game.
and a refuses to change any of that. i wholeheartedly disagree.
I don't think hes Bruce Bowen meets Stephen Jackson either.
But he's probobly the best rebounding wing, and his defense lately has been solid.
this has been Pop's most frustrating year, from a fan's standpoint. he's too damn stubborn. the 2nd team offense is ineffective. he loves Bonner and Finley's jock too much. the Mason-experiment is a failure. he refuses to start and give Bruce significant minutes and donut's Hill while playing Parker 35+ minutes a game.
and a refuses to change any of that. i wholeheartedly disagree.
Yeah that Finley just sucks.
Wut?
That play was horrible, imo. Everyone in the building knew it which is why the Hornets were able to avoid the screen and stay up in Mason's grill. If West doesn't get lazy then Finely has what was already a pretty hard shot turn into one that is either blocked or at least 10 times as hard.
This shows how results oriented Spurs fans are. If a basket goes in the play was great, but if it misses the play was bad. Thats not the way these things should be looked at.
As far as Pop, I couldn't disagree more. It was a pretty horrible year for him overall and certainly not his best. The fact that the Spurs managed to win the division with the injuries shows more about the job Tony Parker was able to accomplish. Pop hurt this team a lot by playing JV, Ime Udoka and probably Bonner too much. He hurt this team by sitting Bowen and Thomas too much.
Pop made a lot of the wrong decisions this year and that the Spurs have had some success despite that doesn't mean he had a great year.
Forgot about that.
I have zero qualms about that game, and IMO, with the matchups, I'd rather play Dallas than New Orleans.
New Orleans is gonna be a .
On Michael Finley's shot - "It was a great play and a great design by Pop (Gregg Popovich) and Michael Finley knocked it down. It was a big shot."
- Tony Parker
On the end of regulation - "Pop (Gregg Popovich) drew up a heck of a play. He had me coming off for a shot, I didn't get a good look and the counter to it was for me to find Fin (Michael Finley). Tim (Duncan) set a good pick and Fin hit a heck of a shot."
- Roger Mason
Agree.
Oh gee that certainly solidifies your opinion. Pops players said he drew up a good play. I would expect Tony Parker and RMJ to complete trash the play because thats what they do.
Don't take my word for it. Look at replays of the play. RMJ is smothered because everyone knew where it was going. Drawing up a play everyone in the building knows is not a good play. Duncan helped a lot with a of a pick but had West not fallen asleep Finley likely has that ball down his own throat.
If things play out like I hope,
It'll be Spurs New Orleans in the second round AGAIN.
New Orleans IMO is just gonna pick and roll and blow the Nuggets out of the water.
IDEAL IDEAL
Spurs play out of their minds, beat New Orleans in 6, Portland plays LA, beats the living crap out of em in 7 games then in the west Finals the Lakers are exhausted for the Spurs.
Won't happen, but a guy can wish.
Shut your stupid mouth.
Yeah he's had a decent few games. My main issue with him is he's so so slow, and unfortunately that's not something that can change.
On the end of regulation - "Eight seconds is a long time. We knew that when we were talking about that in the timeout, that it's a lot of time. We talked about if Roger's not open then the second option was Michael Finley and he was wide open and knocked down a big shot
- Tony Parker
That solidifies my opinion. They were already prepared for a plan B and executed it well. Yeah, West had a hand up in Finley's face, but I thought the play was well designed.
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