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Bryn's role going forward will be the absolute litmus test of Pop's intentions for the season. Is he tanking or is he seriously trying to win? Just follow the bouncing Bryn and you shall see.
Pop is not going anywhere because he knows if he retires then Bryn is out of a job. Pop is going to coach for 10 more years and use Bryn like a bar of soap. Also I'm sure DeMar probably blames Pop and Bryn for him not making the All Star team because if Spurs were .500 or better than he is most likely in.
Bryn's role going forward will be the absolute litmus test of Pop's intentions for the season. Is he tanking or is he seriously trying to win? Just follow the bouncing Bryn and you shall see.
Bold, sharp, logically argued article! Kudos!
Eeeh lets not exaggerate this
No further evidence needed.
2008 best, certainly after 2013 he should have been gone.
2014 was an absolute gift by Duncan etc so that would have been a great feel-good send off.
An underrated reason for Popovich’s decline this year has been the departure of key assistants in Messina and Udoka. With no veteran assistant coaches left on the bench to challenge his instincts (except perhaps Becky), Pop has free reign to play the rotations he prefers—which are worse for the team.
Underrated point. Watching Timmy on the bench, I don’t see him often being actively involved in discussions regarding game plan or strategy...he seems pretty reserved and works more closely with the players..which is understandable considering he is a rookie coach. He’s not going to come in and start trying to call the shots.
I still have high hopes for Becky, but she is still in her first year as a lead assistant.
“more important things” Pop not only wont retire from the thing that is so unimportant in life at 70 years old, he also dragged Timmy back to the bench and on the road away from his family and two year old daughter.
So glum after a big second half comeback. Pop just got his nose undeniably rubbed in Bryn’s poop, and he didn’t like the incontrovertible evidence that he has been horribly wrong about Bryn. Pop would have looked more cheerful at an actual wake.
I wish Manu was head coach. He sees everything.
I think there are positives and negatives to Pop this season. In the short term, YES, this team is worse because of the way Pop is coaching but in the longterm I don't think so. The younger players are being immersed in a culture and I'm sure Forbes just outworks and is out studying a lot of the younger guards outside of the game. Plus I think Spurs want to move Demar Derozan the most and Demar's stats are going to look better with more more space for him to operate (Forbes allows more spacing but negative anywhere else really).
-I think he's helped Walker, by holding him to a higher standard. He's also limited that development by not fully unleashing him. Walker looks significantly better defensively than he did before.
-The problem is that Forbes biggest strength hasn't been that strong this season. He shooting a full 6% worse than last season from 3. Teams actually don't always treat him like a sharp shooter either, he doesn't necessarily create as much space as one might think.
Watching the fourth quarter yesterday, it was clear that there are lineups that work with Beli (can’t have other zero’s on D) as he at least gives some size. Never thought I’d say it either, but if we only get to send to the bench, much prefer Beli to be playing over Forbes.
With Walker’s ascent, Forbes should be out of the rotation if not moved.
He does have a big say in the roster as the president of basketball operations...
This.
He's such a poser with his tired old glum schtik.
So Pop adores and plays Bryn so many minutes for his effort, but then says the second half surge was strictly dude to better effort, but Forbes was on the bench the entire second half.
Maybe the team would consistently give more effort is Bryn was buried on the bench where he belongs.
What an ass Pop has become.
What's our record with Becky Hammon or Tim Duncan as HC? We lack talent.
Sample size?
Don't think Crater has missed all year.
I know Pop’s teaching for players like Lonnie/Murray/White to earn their minutes, and not just given to them. It’s been frustrating because of the record, and I’m for one hates Pop about it. In retrospect, White/Murray/Lonnie has been playing better. I think he’s tougher to those who he sees has more to give. I think in the long run, Spurs will be better because if what fans see as stubbornness.
Remember when someone asked him about the White-Murray tandem earlier in the year and this asshole's response was "it just hasn't worked out" after like a 5 minute sample size?
When is he going to look at the 1200 minute sample size and realize Brent belongs in the Filipino league?
Pop should go do a Jackson and go coach the Knicks into another 5 years of losing.
Still he’s bot on the court
Put he decides who is...
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