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he's making a statement, and I agree with him..he's sending a message to our starters that their performance today was unacceptable..
Why do you have to always give up so soon ?
we were down by 13 at the end of the third. We had two players doing well, our two best players Tim and Tony.
why keep tim on the bench to start the fourth ? the 4 fouls ? come on, let's try to win this game.
what about tony ? who give a of his usual rest at the beginning of the fourth. he had played only 30 minutes, he's only 26. i guess he can play the whole 4th.
Let's play them. we make a 5-8 points run and it's a game again.
why does Pop always do that ? any idea.
he's making a statement, and I agree with him..he's sending a message to our starters that their performance today was unacceptable..
because its not a playoff game.
Because he is a kiss ass.
i was expecting this answer. but i don't see what it means. why not trying to make a last push ? the game wasn't over and why would we be the only team in the league to give up so soon.
we need every win in the closed west and i don't think it's a good habit to give up games like this. we need to learn to make a come back, it could be useful come PO time.
we weren't going to win this game after that horrible 3rd quarter..they had all the momentum, we beat ourselves..the only criticism of Pop is that he didn't play Bowen in the 3rd..
there's absolutely no point of playing our guys in the 4th when it was clear we were done going into the 4th..there's no point of "fighting"..it's an injury risk, and it's a waste of energy..I'd much rather have Pop send a message and have our big 3 sitting on the bench embarrassed for their effort today..
Because of the long road trip. No sense burning a lot of energy on this one.
Pop knows his team. No use burning out your big 3 for a VERY low chance at winning the game. Spurs today were bad at both ends of the court.
All i can say is DAMN! All the missed jump shots and no driving to the basket is a pain to watch ! except for Tony Parker.
what message to our big three ? tim and tony played well, they were the only ones with maybe bruce. you bench your best players to send them a message ?
the only one of the big three on the court was manu who had an horrible game tonight.
Once again, WHICH MESSAGE ?
If we can't ever win a game down by 13 at the end of the fourth, we're not so good. we could make this. Let's try the 4 first minutes of the quarter with all your best players and bench them if you're still too far. but not down 13 with 12 minutes to play.
Message to the big 3 ??? come on they are no kids anymore, what kind of message pop could possibly send to Tim ing Duncan?
He does it in the playoffs too. Game four against Seattle in '05 comes to mind.
Thats no excuse these guys are getting paid millions of dollars to play a game this is what they get paid to do not to sit on the bench the whole 4th quarter because there loosing, And the spurs could of come back Pop is just to damn nice. Pathetic
I got the impression Pop was happy to have this Loss, for the purpose of lighting a fire under his team's defensive performance in the future. I base this on one thing in particular.
Bowen played most of the first half, then in the second he hardly played. I thought he did a good job on Bryant, and I was encouraged by the change. But with Bowen's contribution in the first, I thought the Spurs would play him in the second as well. They didn't and I'm left wondering whether Pop was just trying to see what the D would look like with him vs. without him. We battled hard in the first, not so hard in the second. The message is now there for all to see. Maybe this will serve notice to the guards who are not playing D as hard as they should be.
Either way I hope Bowen gets his role back on this team, if not now then after the All star break.
And where in the is Ian!!!!!???? Damn we could use some help inside....
The Spurs weren't winning this one with the starters. Pop decided to give some under-utilized bench players a chance to see if they could make something happen and bring the lead down to single digits. Playing Ginobili, Duncan, Parker more wasn't going to miraculously get them back in the game with the way they were playing.
I really don't see why people are mad..we clearly didn't have a chance to win after the 3rd..what difference were our big 3 going to make? they were all playing horribly, and it was their own fault..all 3 of them were just jacking up stupid shots that they didn't have to..were they really going to lead us to a victory on the road, down double-digits, against a better team with all the momentum?..
I'd rather he bench players and light a fire..we need to play better D, way too many missed rotations today..they clearly won't learn otherwise, as we've seen already..Pop needs to step up too, particularly with his rotations..we need Bowen badly..
Because the 5% chance they can lead a comeback is outweighed by the 100% chance your best players are less tired after the game and will be better in a more important game.
Eh, it was over. Shooters weren't hitting, Duncan not outplaying Bynum, Ginobili not doing much, Parker decent but not too efficient and the bigs offering little help. You run TP and Duncan out there, best case scenario is Spurs keep it close before they tire out and Kobe comes in to win the game. Then next game the Spurs are even more tired.
This game was over a couple minutes into the third.
spurs lost when tp drove mason missed the three and then tp drove and passed to booner and booner did not shot and got the 24 second shot ran out to start the third quarter
spurs never recovered
did we see the same game ?
Tim and Tony were playing well. Nothing amazing but quite decent, scoring 19 and 15 at 50 %, with 8 rbds for tim and 6 ass for tony. and they were still benched.
Manu was playing like and he was on the court.
what kind of message or logic is this ?
+1 What kind of miracle are you looking for from the Big Three, who pretty much laid a stinking pile on the court when they were in there? They're the ones that dug that huge hole in the first place.
You broke it, you bought it? Manu stunk, and should have been left out with the scrubs.
are you saing it's impossible to win a game down by 13 at the end of the third ?
because i saw a lot of teams make a come back against us after having been down by more points.
we could have won it. maybe 10 % of chances, maybe less, but a 13 points deficit with 12 minutes to play is nothing in the NBA.
Exactly dude
It's not impossible but I'd say this game Pop could have coached all out and the Lakers still win 98% of the time. That 2% isn't worth the wearing down the key players ... especially when there are a load of tough upcoming games.
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