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NO ............... there would not be any rings in SA if he would have been here. NO!!
-- "I begged the (ownership) to keep Chris Webber and let me go ... and I could have been in San Antonio and had Tim Duncan."
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NO ............... there would not be any rings in SA if he would have been here. NO!!
I cant picture Tim Duncan playing Nelly ball.... I just cant.
Don's right. He probably could have had the Spurs job.
Sure am glad things didn't work out that way though............
I am waiting for the first Pop-hater to post that we would have had MORE rings with Nelly at the helm.
then the warriors wouldnt have knocked out mavs like they did in the playoffs
This is no hating on Pop, but who knows what would had happened if Nelly would have joined the Spurs at the time.
People associate Nelly ball with his stint as a Warriors coach, but he also demonstrated extensively that he was a of defensive coach all his years in Milwaukee. He never had a true dominant post player his entire career as a coach (as a player he played and was coached by a great one).
Once with the Warriors, when he finally gave up an arm and a leg to get Webber, the prick was young and immature and didn't want to be coached (Webber semi-redeemed himself later in his career and matured, but in my eyes he was always a spoiled child).
He was very unfortunate that before he started as a coach in NY, it was leaked that he would have preferred to trade Ewing for a young Shaq, making his relationship with Ewing irreparable (i.e. Ewing run him out of town after ~60 games).
Don't you think that with DRob and Duncan at his disposal, he wouldn't be able to use them effectively? Nelly was the master of putting players in a situation to succeed, he always adapted to the strengths of his personnel. Who knows, under Nelly the Spurs would have never won a championship or they would have established the longest winning championship dynasty since the '60s Celtics.
IMHO, he is/was the most creative coach in basketball.
Spurs would still have at least 2 les IMO..
Nellie's assuming an awful lot. If Pop had hired Nellie in 94 instead of Hill, there's no guarantee either would have been around in 97.
Nelson's a great coach to have if you're the underdog. I gotta give ato the Warriors management; I can't believe things could have turned out better under any other coach. Tim had all the reasons in the world to leave in 2000, but I think his relationship with Pop was the main thing that kept him a Spur for life.
...and if he had, the rafters of the AT&T Center would be emply.
God help us all, if that would've happened.
If the AT&T Center even existed..
Dude, there would be no AT&T Center. The Spurs would probably be moving from New Orleans to Anaheim as we speak, and the Missions would be the big game in town.
Since when Duncan is a shooting guard ?
Yeah.... no 99 le? No San Antonio Spurs. I remember the arena vote in 98 getting killed in a landslide. They were smart to take that vote right after ringing.
O_V says he could have coached the Spurs.
"If only they'd answered my emails..."
Nellie was a great coach, but I just can't see him orchestrating the prolonged success that Pop has. Not saying the Spurs wouldn't have ever won a le with Nelson, but Nellie, as good as he was, always found a way to eventually wear out his welcome.
...you'd still have donnie.
who knows...
maybe timmy would now be known as "tragic johnson" Timmy...
I'm fine with the way it played out.
He should coach the Heat unless he's burned bridges with Riley and Co.Now thats one of a small ball team and he can even Hack a Dwight too.
Damn that would have sucked.
Clown Nelson would have done what? Start Ginobili at center?
Well at least he wouldn't have waited until the playoffs of a 63 win season to begin the transition to smallball.
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