coach breaksdown gamefilm spurs vs mavs

[Ice009]

The guy who implemented Sochan at pg for 40 games is saying some other hairbrained strategy he comes up with is "too complicated for the young players."

Cool story.

I heard Sean Elliott say it during the broadcast of one of the games. Can't remember if it was last year or the year before.

[MultiTroll]

I heard Sean Elliott say it during the broadcast of one of the games. Can't remember if it was last year or the year before.

Oh i believe you.
I'm scoffing at the content and Pop, not your posting of the info.

[RC_Drunkford]

I remember on one of the telecasts Sean recounted a conversation he had with Pop, asking him why they didn’t run a certain play any more. Pop said the players weren’t capable of running it. It was too complicated.

You can’t tear down the house and expect a new one to appear in its place overnight, This youthful inexperience is why the Spurs were reluctant to tear it all down, and why they tried the LMA/Derozan pairing.

that's funny since they value culture and high basketball IQ so much according to you sniffers. Yet most of them don't have any.

[Joseph Kony]

I remember on one of the telecasts Sean recounted a conversation he had with Pop, asking him why they didn’t run a certain play any more. Pop said the players weren’t capable of running it. It was too complicated.

You can’t tear down the house and expect a new one to appear in its place overnight, This youthful inexperience is why the Spurs were reluctant to tear it all down, and why they tried the LMA/Derozan pairing.

overnight? it's been 5 ing years of not sniffing the playoffs

such a supreme sniffer level take excusing ty roster construction and ty coaching

[widowmaker]

The dude kept on saying “what do the spurs do during practice?” Its basketball not ing rocket science, how stupid can they be to not know the game that they have been playing for 3/4 of their lives? Coaching has a lot to do with it there isn’t any guidance being given.

[J_Paco]

The guy who implemented Sochan at pg for 40 games is saying some other hairbrained strategy he comes up with is "too complicated for the young players."

Cool story.

No dummy.

He was saying that their former Motion offense was too complex to implement with such a young, inexperienced team as last year's.

Obviously, with two adequate PG's on the roster and a bunch of guys that can do some secondary ball handling (plus the teams overall good passing) that shouldn't be the case anymore.

People on here do realize the Spurs were the second youngest team in the league last year, right? And that they had only one viable option at PG (which was a huge fail on management's part) to try and play an extremely complex offense.

The Spurs didn't have a Rondo, LeBron, Jokic level basketball savant to lean on last season. Again, that was a failure of management and Pop, but getting upset that a young, inexperienced team couldn't play an offense that was built around smart, veteran players (and tons of player/team chemistry) is silly.

[objective]

OK, cool. All good if he wasn't your top pick, I was just curious as to your thoughts on him. Who did you prefer?

Sheppard #1 easy, but he was off the board and not realistic to even trade up for in retrospect

I liked Holland among available players. Castle has been better than I thought.

[J_Paco]

Just in case someone tries to retort my post with the usual 'Pop Sniffer Blah Blah' BS, I didn't like the team getting away from ball movement and playing a smart, multifaceted offense.

I know everyone complains about guess not 'getting Wemby the ball enough,' but just as annoying was seeing him go one-on-one instead swing the ball and setting a screen (or being involved in more dribble handoff action).

If the team wants to get back to being an elite offense - especially with a lack of three-point shooting and individual shot creation - then ball and body movement is gonna be key.

[MultiTroll]

He was saying that their former Motion offense was too complex to implement with such a young, inexperienced team as last year's.

But Pop did think a young, inexperienced team was able to process a Sochan at pg for 40 games?

[J_Paco]

But Pop did think a young, inexperienced team was able to process a Sochan at pg for 40 games?

No, he was trying to stupidly experiment to see if Sochan can/could handle a perimeter/ball handling role.

It was a dumb idea that should've been left for off-season training/runs & Summer League.

[ambchang]

Pop was looking for a motion offence.
Motion offence require multiple high IQ primary and secondary ball handlers.
Putting sochan there can potentially expedite to at process and moving him to a future secondary ball handler role.

Not saying it’s doable, especially in retrospect, but without the benefit of hindsight it seems perfectly logical, especially when there was nothing to play for last year but experiment.

It failed spectacularly but I still believe, over the long run, it helped sochans processing speed