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Time to hang ‘em up.
Thanks for everything Pop.
We’ll be lucky to find someone half as good as prime Pop.
Yea he’s done. We need a new HC tbh.
Time to hang ‘em up.
Thanks for everything Pop.
We’ll be lucky to find someone half as good as prime Pop.
Not surprising, seemed kinda obvious he wasn't going to return this season. Sucks this is how Pop went out but honestly it's probably for the best if he just hangs it up and lived his life. This is not the kind of job a 76 year old recovering from a stroke should be doing.
Spurs need to throw the bag at Hurley in the offseason
I don't think there's much if any substance about anything that can be taken from the rest of this season. Mitch will finish it out and hopefully some clarity will happen after the draft, a new coach is hired and Wembys health concerns gain some clarity. All we can do is wait it out and hope for the best.
I wish him well to his retirement. He’s done so much for the Spurs, the city of San Antonio and to the basketball community. The Pop tree is legacy to his genius. It’s just not a good timing after the news with Victor. But I get that when it’s time to go, it will be up to his own accord and regardless of the situation. Good luck Pop! Simply the goat!
Lakers Spurs rivalry aside, I hope Pop fully recovers. Life >> NBA. Get well soon Pop.
Mount Rushmore coaches:
Pop
Phil Jackson
Riles
Red
In that order.
I wonder if the Wemby situation had anything to do with this. In any case, I hope they move him upstairs into a consultant role and bring in someone like Snyder or Bud to be his successor.
The whole pop seen driving to the facility was clearly about the Wemby news.
Retire and quite the drama !
I hope they move him to cal since he loves cal policies !
I tuned into the ABC pre-game show where Shams was going into detail, and one thing he reported is that Pop and Wemby have been in frequent communication over the last week since Wemby's issue surfaced. Don't know what, if anything, that plays into things... just sharing what I saw on TV.
What do you mean? He drove there to see how Victor is doing?
Expected and it’s the right decision, but still pretty sad to be honest. Pop was a big part of my basketball following growing up. All the criticisms I’ve had about his coaching the last few years still doesn’t change that he’s the GOAT coach.
I hope ass cancer kills you slowly and painfully.
I don't really want it to end this way for him and would still like him to go out on his own terms coaching out a season (not talking about this season specifically) or some games at least, but if it's not going to be good for his health, I guess he has to look at what's best for him. He's always the guy that talks about there's other things outside of basketball that are more important, so I guess going by his own philosophy, it's not worth continuing to try and coach. It would have been great to see if the passion would have come back for him with a better roster than what he's had to work with in previous seasons with subpar rosters.
I have talked about his coaching for a while, but I'm not going to change my tune now. He has been pretty bad for a while now (it could have been due to how bad his teams were and he may have had some better seasons coming up with better rosters). I agreed and loved his philosophy from 1997 to around 2005, but slowly along the way he started losing me from there and I found myself disagreeing with some of the stuff he was doing. Small ball in 2006 in the WCSF against the Mavs was probably where it started. He had a few brilliant seasons mixed in between 2008 to 2018, and some not so good ones too.
How's your son doing?
Please no Mitch
Mitch would be the cheapest option and after years of being very generous with Pop they might try to claw back some savings by being cheap
Nate mcmillan
stotts
jim carrey - if pacers let him go
would all be good options…
Should of signed Quinn when the chance was there
Would love to see Avery Johnson coach the spurs.
Yeah I wish him better health. Some of his decisions puzzled me, but when he would do things like pull all 5 of the starters because they weren’t playing D or doing anything right, I was entertained. Damn sure can’t complain about his records. Just WOW! Things turned flux around this organization in the past month: picking up Fox and shedding Collins on the same day, Castle shining in the All-Star events,(Then the gut punches) Wemby’s health scare, and now news on Pop. What an eventful season and not over yet. Let’s keep things civil and GO SPURS GO!!!!!!!!!!!!
Always will love that man, but probably it's the best to give him his good bye celebration.
Hope he will have a long and happy life.
...and bring Becky back!!!
Becky gets paid a million a year, salary wise it probably wouldn't take a massive contract to get her to come over especially if Pop asked. Hurley on the other hand just signed for 6/50, so it'd take a Pop-level contract to bring him over.
imo it would be best for him to coach the regular season finale at home vs the Raptors. Give him the huge farewell that he never wanted but that the fans would love.
But knowing him, I think he has already coached his last game.
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