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Let him finish the year and then pull a Biden on him, tell him he can stop gracefully or be forced out.
Wemby will make coaches want to coach here. It’s a players league. I just hope they pick the right replacement when the time comes. No way Pop is getting fired this year.
Let him finish the year and then pull a Biden on him, tell him he can stop gracefully or be forced out.
If they pull a Biden it implies we'll end up with Brett Brown tho... ^^
Problem is Lord Dip will probably have all the say in who gets hired to replace him.
I think the dipstick is going to finish out all 5 years of this current contract.
"Why wouldn't I?"
I don’t think so. There were murmurs this summer about it being his last year, to the point where we were all picking our pet cats to replace him. Mine were Snyder and Will Hardy.Problem is Lord Dip will probably have all the say in who gets hired to replace him.
I think the dipstick is going to finish out all 5 years of this current contract.
"Why wouldn't I?"
I think a bigger issue is that he absolutely FAILED that test against Denver and his horrid coaching lost them that series with his awful rotations.
I'll never forget how he could have won the series in game 2, Denver was such an inexperienced and young team that were completely rattled, and after winning game 1 in Denver, had the Spurs won game 2, they would have completely collapsed and quit. Instead when they had an 18 point lead in the first half he rolled out the Suicide Squad on defense of Marco-Forbes-Mills and it got completely wiped. So did Pop learn his lesson and adjust in the second half after getting another 18 point lead? NO. He rolled out the same fools who lost an 18 point lead in the 1st half and they DID IT AGAIN. Denver was ready to die in their crib but Pop kept them alive.
And then he ultimately lost the whole thing when he lost faith in and didn't know how to coach Derrick White. First of all, the only reason they were even in the playoffs was because of White excelling after returning from injury in the 2nd half of the season. Pop owed everything to White. And when he just lost interest in playing White in that series what did he expect?
People are going to bash White and some of the games where he did poorly, but the reality is he was just coached poorly. Look at him thrive in Boston. Theresa a reason why every Boston reporter says the biggest difference in White now compared to before is that he has a coach who believes in him. Not a tweak to his shooting form, not changing his body or his strength, not habits in the film room, COACHING.
AND Pop continued coaching him poorly the next year, not only not allowing him to compete for a starting job but REFUSING to ever even play him with Murray until the bubble. Thereby limiting his minutes to 24 a game off the bench automatically! So insanely stupid that Pop was intentionally avoiding playing a mature 25 year old White off the bench while in Boston he's starting every playoff game and getting 35+ minutes a game
Pop was an awful coach whose incompetence was ruining seasons 5 years ago, and he's even worse now.
^ rack it.
Hasn't won 35 games in 5 years
There is 0 hints of the coach from 2014
Against the Rockets, this dip surrounded Victor with non shooters and then had Victor set screens for them like the ing Rockets weren't just going to stand their and laugh
Dude lost the plot years ago...I can't remember the last time I saw 5 straight games of competent coaching by this old windbag
It's going to be funny watching Victor outgrow him. Seems like it's already happening.
I love how there is an attempt at absolution for Pop by pointing out that he has a roster to deal with... AS THOUGH HE DIDN'T HAVE A ROLE IN THAT TOO
no lies detected here. I'll never forget Game 2 against the Nuggets. This dude thought calling a time out and telling them to defend would make them miraculously be able to play defense. Only for them to go back out there and completely lose the lead. Typical Pop antics. I also never understood why White spent his first year in the G-League, when Parker was out for like 30 games and then came back from his injury and White was already polished coming out of college.
Once pop is gone things will start to get better
im with this a hundred percent
Tough to argue on this point. Pop really has lost the script for a few years, a lot of times the decisions are head-scratching at best. The team really hasn't improved much on offensive or defensive execution the last few years (yes, defence was better because we have Wemby), the rotations were odd to say the least, and the players appear to be just roaming aimlessly in game, but also in terms of skill development. I just cannot figure out what is going on.
Loved Pop, forever grateful for the 5 rings, 2014, 2003 and 2005 were just masterful coaching, but he has really lost it since Nephew neutered him.
Pop is going to be 76 in January so Yeah I think he should look at hanging it up
Haven't there been "murmurs" since 2017 about it being his last year?
There's a reason elite HCs across all sporting disciplines don't coach well into their 70s and, of those who try, very few achieve much of anything.
There's a ton of quantifiable evidence supporting the notion that elite sports simply evolves past coaches of a certain age but we're supposed to ignore all of it because Pop is Basketball Jesus apparently and anyone who says otherwise is a heathen who must be condemned.
Awesome!
Has anyone suggested a GoFundMe to pay Belichick to speak the truth directly to Pop?
Pop / Trump
Equal cementheads who will never step down voluntarily for the good of their teams.
Still curious to see if Pop returns to coaching full time vs some front office position.
the funny thing is that when I made this statement last season, mfers kept talking about how much of a genius pop is
... except all the results you're seeing right now are because of what the staff has been developing.
Like, are people just terminally dumb nowadays? Maybe Pop ain't it any longer, but... is this just why this country is going to destroy itself? Because there's just no capacity to really think anymore, or look at information, it's just slimy emotional impulses amplified by inane chatter about it?
Been happy with Mitch so far. He's modernized things but keeps continuity. Hopefully pop is not completely done and can create some sort of new coaching role or he oversees things but delegates to Mitch on the day-to-day basis or something like that.
Pop is done. You're holding onto him having one good year od coaching left is like that 38 year old welterweight trying to win the le one more time. It may happen, but the chances of a 40 year old ww beating the top guy does not happen often(Pacquia beating Thurman was no upset. Thurman was always overrated).
Pop went from NBA loser/Division III college coach to "genius" the day Tim Duncan first walked onto the court.Hasn't won 35 games in 5 years
There is 0 hints of the coach from 2014
Against the Rockets, this dip surrounded Victor with non shooters and then had Victor set screens for them like the ing Rockets weren't just going to stand their and laugh
Dude lost the plot years ago...I can't remember the last time I saw 5 straight games of competent coaching by this old windbag
It's going to be funny watching Victor outgrow him. Seems like it's already happening.
His "genius" left the building as soon as Tim walked off the floor for the last time. Since Tim left, he's had a horrific record that would have gotten anyone else fired years ago.
I wonder if the Pomona-Pitzer job will be available next year so Pop has something to do.
Post Tim, he won 61 games the first season, and averaged 52 for the first three seasons. It would have continued longer but for Kawhi snaking the franchise, forcing a trade that threw the roster out of balance.
You might try being less stupid, and actually doing some research before metaphorically stepping on your .
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