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Poor naive bas . When he said he was going to come here and "Steve Kerr it" for a few years....I don't think he realized just what that meant...Brent Barry didn't sign a four-year, $21 million contract with the Spurs in July to be a practice player getting spot minutes during garbage time.
I'll go on record again, and say that if Devin plays well and Barry plays well, Pop will continue to do the same thing. Because Barry will never be the defensive player Devin Brown is IMO. He's a great athlete, but he's not the athlete Devin Brown is..Devin will always be favored by Pop if he is the better defensive player.
Now that is no crime in and of itself...but the truth is, Pop does not use a deep rotation...he ices the 9th and 10th guys on the bench historically and they go games and games and games without playing.
For Barry to continue to get playing time Pop will have to make a drastic departure from the way he has coached in the past. He will be coaching a little bit more like Hubie.
I don't think he's going to do it...because in the past I have seen him refuse to play guys only because they weren't as good a defenders as the guys in front of them...no matter what else they could do to help the team.
I have been wrong about Pop before, I didn't think there was any way in he would start a rookie PG....and he surprised me...so I won't say it's impossible but there is nothing in Pop's past to indicate both Devin and Barry, and Horry and Malik, for that matter...are all going to get decent minutes....or to put it a better way...get the same opportunities in big situations in big games.... And that's a huge mistake on Pop's part.
I hope Pop proves me wrong, and if and when he does, I will give him credit for doing so, and I will also enjoy the le we win because he changed.
I'll also give Chump credit for being one with the sac even more than TPark. But I'll owe no apologies to the Barry haters who said he sucked and didn't think he deserved PT. They'll owe, in fact they already do.
