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Manu's injury. A healthy Manu changes everything.
Manu's injury
Popovich gone senile
Although we are missing Manu big time, that wouldn't have prevented Pop from giving too many minutes to Finley and Bonner, and benching Hill most of the time
Manu's injury. A healthy Manu changes everything.
even when manu came back popovich was coaching bat crazy
manu's injury didn't require giving boner a ton of minutes in the most important quarter of the season
Actually it's Duncans age. But out of the two....Pop.
manu.
combination of both.
manu
Pop's stubbornness. Yes it brought us 4 NBA Championships, but it cost us also.
Manu...without him, TP gets gassed by the 4th quarter...he's got nothing left. A healthy Manu would have this series the other way around right now, with the Spurs headed back to SA to close it out, 4-1.
Pop, we should still be able to win in the first round without Manu. Having Manu would of course give us an edge above any top team in the NBA, but to say we need Manu to beat every team even the bottom dwellers(which we saw all season) is crazy.
This team is underachieving because of Pop's very questionable coaching this season.
Pop has been a very good coach if not the best. However this year be it his old age, or his stubborn ego. Pop has lost touch with coaching the Spurs.
Down 3-1 I'm betting Pop pulls out all the stops and will play Gooden and Hill a lot more minutes. He's got nothing to lose.
But in terms of winning or losing, I'm taking Pop as the reason. Manu would have added offensive firepower but looking at that stat line last night, you needed a lot more points spread around. In fact, I would be playing Oberto over Bonner because Oberto is a proven and battle tested playoff veteran. Gooden can back up Duncan and play some minutes at PF and Duncan can shift to center. Still I would go with a lot more size down low.
why isn't "kori and timvp going to mavs home games" in the poll?
The real question is, could have we competed better in this series without Manu? And to me the answer is a resounding yes. I think having Manu around would have masked some of the current deficiencies, like Mason not being able to play point, Bonner being a complete waste, etc. We would have won more games and everything mostly gets swept under the rug when you win. Not having Manu, however, magnifies all these personnel problems. When all is said and done, it might be a blessing in disguise. I don't like to lose any more than anybody else, but we were not winning a championship without Manu anyways, so might aswell get these chokers exposed.
I think Manu's injury is the main reason Pop has fallen off the deep end as of late.
The half healthy Timmy
If you notice Manu on the bench he really wants to play. It looks like it's just killing him just sitting there.
Why not ign play him? it.
Both.
Awful coaching and an untimely injury to a player that didn't do anything to avoid it.
It's not Manu's injury, and it's not Pop's coaching. Injuries are a part of the game. Pop knows what he's doing.
Oh, and last time I checked, this series was best of 7, not best of 5. The first round has been that way since 2003. You have to win 4 games to win a series, so why anyone is already declaring Dallas a winner is beyond me.
IF the Spurs lose this series (which they won't), it will be because of Game 3. The Spurs have competed very well in this series. Game 1 and Game 4 could have very well been W's for the Spurs, we just missed a couple of key shots. Not much you can do about it. This series could be 3-1 Spurs right now. But like 2006, we'll just have to do an uphill climb here. The series isn't over. If we are able to stretch the series out to 7 games, 2 of the remaining 3 games are at home. Dallas hasn't necessarily done anything impressive. Sure, they blew us out by 21, but we blew them out by 21. So we're even there. The other 2 games, Dallas just got some bounces and calls to go their way, end of story.
We've taken Dirk and Terry out of the series. JJ Barea has had his 5 minutes of fame as well as Brandon Bass. The Spurs know they need to concentrate on Josh Howard, but don't count on Howard to play consistent in the remaining games of the series.
The series isn't over last time I checked, not sure about everybody else.
Manu being injured is obviously a big loss for the spurs and timmy being injured hurts the team also but I have to go with pop's coaching. He doesn't seem to know what to do anymore.. Not trusting in hill in this series against dallas and having mason play backup pg has been idiotic from pop.
Manu would have made up for Pop's coaching.
I agree.
We may have lost to the Lakers or someone else down the road beacause we don't have Manu, but the question is who hurt us most? Since we haven't gone into a round that we would really NEED Manu to win it, I blame POP 150%.
It's Pop because what hurt us the most so far is that POP has lost his damn mind and sold out his own damn beliefs. This is a very winnable series against the Mavs without Manu, Manu is VERY important to this team, but with Pop's stupid decisions and rotaions, we have just about lost this series.
The Celtics seem to have other players pick up the slack after Garnett went down. For some reason, no one on the Spurs is able to make a basket. There is no way we deserve to win if only 2 players are responsible for the majority of the scoring.
I picked pop screwed up because there have been plenty of games with and without Manu that were well within our reach and we failed to execute for the win. Another part of the problem this year and just yesturday was Ime in up on the rotation and fouling Jason Kidd on the three point line, didnt really go for the block but bulldozed him then acted like it was a good play on his part. That guy Jacq Vaghn, Finley need to go next year and I hope Pop and and his staff are looking at this years draft for at least one guy that can contribute for us next year.
"we just suck" isn't an option?
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