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To me, it's like Pop always has an answer for whatever other coaches throw at him. But against Phil he just has no answers. I was listening to the postgame interview, and he was saying that coming into the series he wanted to keep the Lakers under 95 points, keep Kobe off the free throw line, etc. All things we did, yet we still came up short. Does anybody else notices the coaching edge there?
coaches dont shoot baskets
I don't know outside of game 1 what else you wanted the guy to do.
His team ran out of gas. WTF do you want? He can only do so freakin much.
Yeah, I know. It seems like Pop really had no answer for Phil's decision to have Kobe Bryant on his team.
I don't know about that.
If Phil was coaching SA and Pop was coaching LA, I think the result would have been the same honestly.
He had less to work with. Did all he could.
No.
One team was old, the other team was not.
Asking this team to play 48 hard minutes every other night, with all of the miles they've got, with the tough series they finished against the Hornets five minutes before playing this one - it's too much.
I don't know what more Pop could have done to improve our chances, other than flying Michael Finley down into the heart of a rainforest and leaving him there.
Exactly i mean a couple of issues i had with him but he can;t make Manu healthy or get us to make anyone one of the 8 million open shots to go down
I guess I got the wrong impression then. Thanks for the comments.
No, I think Pop did a good job with what he had. It's not like he had a lot of options with the motley bunch he was trotting out there every night!
If Pop had L.A.'s, roster, they'd win 70 games and cruise to the le!
Eating lunches is so '80s - a three-martini lunch, a lunch-club aristocrat, box lunch at the Y.
Phil drank Pop's milkshake. He drank it up and sucked it down.
Pop did a great job this year and in the playoffs. Like the others have said, he couldn't shoot for the team and he couldn't pull a Mr. Miagi (Karate Kid) on Manu's injuries.
If Manu's healthy I think we win this. I said all year we would only go as far as Manu could take us.
The Lakers are the only real rival the Spurs have. They've eliminated the Spurs 4-1 this decade. Spurs still hold their ankles to the Lake Show.
All those other teams like the Mavs, Suns and rival du jour, the Hornets are just wannabees.
Phil owns Pop.
Kobe was far and away the best player in the series, Manu was about as good as Daequan Cook. That's hard to overcome.
I dont agree.
Were 3 pts shots the key of this series?
When we had a good % (w/ Manu getting 5/7 in the 3r game for example) with got the game.
What you think?
Yeah a healthy Ginobili makes things alot different.
Its just another season of what ifs.
Not Pop's fault ...Phil didnt win the last 2 years and the Spurs won a le one of those same years ...
To be honest I think this was HIS GREATEST coaching job ...the Hack a Shaq ...Playing Barry@point, Playing KT tonight, putting Tim on David West, Telling horry to hurt West's back... jk...but I thought he played all his cards he just had no aces left ...
3 pts = energy
they hit them well in the first half when the had it, second half when they were tired, they couldn't make one.
Coincidence? I think not.
Forget about comparing him to PJ. Pop's a great coach and will go down as one of the best of all time. He's got the rings and the scoreboard to prove it. That's the bottom line in my book.
Well, I do question Pop's decision to hurt Ginobili. I think that came back to haunt him as the series progressed.
Yeah, game 1 you could easily say he ed up.,
Other than that, he pulled every stunt, every play, everything.
If Bynum gets healthy next year, the Lakers will win 70 anyway and cruise to the le.
I don;t know about that one. They look for real.
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