POP is a good coach?

[polandprzem]

who's next?

[Spursmania]

Pop is a great Coach. But he still failed tonight. His rotations seemed questionable and just plain stupid at best. I'm no NBA coach, but Pop really did suck tonight with his line-ups.

[Spurminator]

Quality thread.

[rascal]

Pop is a better coach than he is a gm.

[rascal]

you can't put gooden in with the game on the line. he just joined the team. pop is of the opinion that you've got to earn your playing time if you're a new guy. he's got to consider the chemistry of the team, and i agree.

the last play was a broken play. obviously tp wasn't meant to shoot a three after losing the ball.

the spurs just got bullied around by a bunch of 20 somethings. they played like pussies. you can't put this on pop.

Thats stupid. If the new guy gives you a better chance to win you play him regardless if he is new to the team. Gooden brings more positives than Bonner.

[Cry Havoc]

Completely pointless, idiotic thread.

Anyone criticizing Pop for one game is completely void of any relevant basketball knowledge.

[Cry Havoc]

Newbies, lurkers, and people that know absolutely nothing about the NBA are ready to jump off a cliff. God settle down guys. One loss doesn't mean the end.

[Cry Havoc]

you my friend are a dumb yourself for making blind homer statements.

Its not just one game .

[Ditty]

i agree that pop has made some questionable calls this year one was the lakers game when we were down by 12 points in LA against a lakers team who wasn't playing very well that day so we had a chance to get back in the game but pop decided to sit his starters in the 4th

another one was in dallas last game when the mavs were starting a big run he had tony and tim on the bench for like 5 minutes..put them back in the game pop!

[EJK5032]

this is one of the deepest rosters that the Spurs have had in some time, which is both a blessing and a curse, in trying to tighten up the rotation for the playoffs........plus he's trying to keep the team fresh for the playoffs........plus we have injuries.......plus the backup PG experiment.......plus we just got Gooden......plus you don't know when Manu is coming back........that is a lot to manage. If Pop can pull this all together, it will be one of his best coaching jobs ever.

[lefty]

Gregg Popovich has the third-highest win total after 1,000 games and has earned all of his victories from the Spurs' bench.
Most Wins in 1,000 Games Coach Wins
Phil Jackson 731
Pat Riley 716
Gregg Popovich 676
Red Auerbach 631
Jerry Sloan 625


Oh, and he has 4 championships too


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[Yogurt210]

Gregg Popovich has the third-highest win total after 1,000 games and has earned all of his victories from the Spurs' bench.
Most Wins in 1,000 Games Coach Wins
Phil Jackson 731
Pat Riley 716
Gregg Popovich 676
Red Auerbach 631
Jerry Sloan 625


Oh, and he has 4 championships too


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Minus all his records/stats, if Pop just started this year, would you still consider him a great coach?
Do you like what he has done with the spurs this year? Do you like his line-ups and decisions?
Do you like how when players get hot, he benches them? Do you like when Mason is our game winnder shot taker, he makes plays for other non-game winner players? Do you like how he gets rid of all the young athletic guys?
Do you like how he pretends to know what he is doing this year? Or did you just like his ing beard that it turned you on so much that it blinded you this whole season on what he has done. There has been signs off the old spurs this year, but pop usually just dismisses it by playing the scrubs the next game. Or waiving players.

What has made Pop so outstanding this year?

[lefty]

Minus all his records/stats, if Pop just started this year, would you still consider him a great coach?
Do you like what he has done with the spurs this year? Do you like his line-ups and decisions?
Do you like how when players get hot, he benches them? Do you like when Mason is our game winnder shot taker, he makes plays for other non-game winner players? Do you like how he gets rid of all the young athletic guys?
Do you like how he pretends to know what he is doing this year? Or did you just like his ing beard that it turned you on so much that it blinded you this whole season on what he has done. There has been signs off the old spurs this year, but pop usually just dismisses it by playing the scrubs the next game. Or waiving players.

What has made Pop so outstanding this year?

1. Winning games without Manu and TP; oh, and 2 b2b wins without Timmy, against good teams

2. Going CIA; he is not showing his hand to Phil Jackson; it will pay off in the WCF

[Yogurt210]

That CiA thing is overrated. Believing in Pop’s “cia” tactics is like believing in doing penis stretches will actually make you grow an inch, haha. So you can stop now.

Every team can see our hand. We lack athleticism and at ude. And we are a jump shooting team. Minus parker, who shouldn’t really be getting a team high almost every game as a PG.

[Cry Havoc]

That CiA thing is overrated. Believing in Pop’s “cia” tactics is like believing in doing penis stretches will actually make you grow an inch, haha. So you can stop now.

Every team can see our hand. We lack athleticism and at ude. And we are a jump shooting team. Minus parker, who shouldn’t really be getting a team high almost every game as a PG.

There's nothing quite like a newbie Spurs fan who thinks the regular season is incredibly important. Spurs fans who have been around a while realize it's almost meaningless.

Remind us where you've coached that gives you the knowledge to criticize one of the best coaches in NBA history. Thanks.

[jag]

No I mean you.

Drink Draino.

Walk into oncoming traffic.

Do the world a favor, and swallow a razor filled apple.

TPark is in full form

[Yogurt210]

There's nothing quite like a newbie Spurs fan who thinks the regular season is incredibly important. Spurs fans who have been around a while realize it's almost meaningless.

Remind us where you've coached that gives you the knowledge to criticize one of the best coaches in NBA history. Thanks.

Haha newbie spursfan? You serious? Just because im new here, don’t make me a newbie spursfan. Im from san Antonio born a raised, kid. Regular season matters in many ways. Why do you think we strive to get homecourt every year? Duh kid..common sense. Regular seasons games sends messages and shows how you stand it also lets you strategically pick apart the other team for best results come playoff time. So if the regular season doesn’t matter, how about we just lose all the games and pray to get in the playoffs and beat the elites? I have never lost faith in my team, and never will, I just believe we aren’t playing like we are supposed to, given the injuries.

I don’t need to coach to realize Pop’s questionable moves. NO one does.
So hop off his ..for once.
He’s not the best coach ever, he’s good, but has made a ton of mistakes this year, leading to me questioning him.

[sananspursfan21]

don't worry about it

[Flux451]

and the thread lived happily ever after.


THE END

[Muser]

[Manufan909]

nah, I have it at 50% Thunder, 40% Players, 10% Pop

Don't agree with the percentages, but I am happy to see a fellow poster who acknowledges the other team has an affect on the outcome of the game. And Pop didn't coach mssing 16 of 19 3s, the Spurs were off. A 30% Spurs team won't beat a 60% OKC team.

And I agree with Ime and Fin taking too many minutes with Bowen completely rested, but Pop is still a good coach. Also with Hill being the 2 for the last 5 odd games. He just isn't perfect, but then no one is. I'm not an extreme Hoya, but you can't put cold shooting from a few players(Hill, Fin, and Ime equaled 5-24, or 1 of 5) on Pop. I am a firm believer of S though.

I know it's cliche, but the true measure of the post ASG season for this year should be when Manu/Gooden play their 6th game together til the end of the year, if they both stay on til the last game.

I also hope Mason reemerges from his mini-slump. I want him to starting taking 8+ shots again, and making 4+ til Manu is back, to have a semblance of the Big 3.

[Manufan909]

don't sweat it OP. this is classic CIA Coach Pop. His plan is to let us slide down to the 9th seed so everybody forgets about us and starts taking us for granted---then we'll spring into action in the playoffs and the Lakers will be all like "Whoa, wait. What are ya'll doing here? You're the 9th seed, we're supposed to be playing the Mavs this round." And Pop will be all like "excellent, my evil plan has worked--they never saw us coming."

If he did that and the Lakers got booted in the 1st round at the hands on the Spurs, that would be hilarious. I doubt even CIA Pop could predict the exact number of wins needed to get the 8th seed, it would be theoretically be possible for the 6-8th seeds to go on a tear and ruins that plan. But if he overestimated and ended up 7th, it would all be for naught. At the very least he could knock the ROckets out, instead of the Jazz getting all the fun.

But seriously, who would the Lakers play if the playoff spots don't change, the winner of the Nuggets-Portland series? If that's the case, I hope Portland wins, so they can beat on the Lakers for SA, a la the Hornets of last year. But SA would probably have to face the Hornets again. Good thing they're a worse team now, and SA 09 at full strength is arguably better than SA 08 at full strength(though how often Tim is off in the POs could change that/how rusty Manu is/Goodens chem with the team).

[Manufan909]

You settle down. The le was more to get people into the thread and also what I thought about Pop's coaching last night. I think I was pretty accurate as Pop coached a poor game.

Maybe I should have made the le 'Pop is a great coach' .

Nope, the correct le would've been 'CIA Pop at work'. Taking the most recent crappy outing and starting a thread with a le implying Pop does this on a regular basis, so why would anyone think he's a great coach, is mindnumbingly stupid. Thank god I didn't suc b to flaming your overreacting, sorry excuse for a Spurs fan ass, but you sure got under tparks skin. We usually don't agree, but the idea of you eating a razorblade apple doesn't sound too harsh a punishment right now.

But in all seriousness ice, you should really unplug your internet after a loss, cuz you post before thinking 99% of the time if the Spurs have a brain fart. I'd recommend you take a deep breath and try to think overall, since the blame can be spread around alot more than you imply(the opposing team/coach, Spurs players, injuries, off night for the team as a whole), but if this is cathartic for you, by all means, bash away. You are a bi-polar poster though, so when you're level-headed you make decent points, hence I don't have you on ignore. As opposed to shadowflames/johnnysix, they just and moan on game blogs, so I had to block them for the saftey of my own sanity(don't know how ruff stands it, since apparently he has never blocked anyone). And of course mrspurs, but he focuses his idiocy on general threads, so he's alot harder to dodge if you don't block him.

P.S. I apologize for the long post, but poster I like to refer to as ' ers' really get on my case sometimes. If I go to a game with timvp, angelluv, sequ, and kori(apologies to regulars I missed), I'll expect alot of ing at players and Pop's coaching, but reading it online is so much worse.

[Manufan909]

Minus all his records/stats, if Pop just started this year, would you still consider him a great coach?
Do you like what he has done with the spurs this year? Do you like his line-ups and decisions?
Do you like how when players get hot, he benches them? Do you like when Mason is our game winnder shot taker, he makes plays for other non-game winner players? Do you like how he gets rid of all the young athletic guys?
Do you like how he pretends to know what he is doing this year? Or did you just like his ing beard that it turned you on so much that it blinded you this whole season on what he has done. There has been signs off the old spurs this year, but pop usually just dismisses it by playing the scrubs the next game. Or waiving players.

What has made Pop so outstanding this year?

I need the stat s to back me up on this(and it'll be hard with the Timmy tendonosis aspect), but considering the vast number of games his most important 3 players have not played, with Tony injured, Manu injured, Timmy injured, and I'm counting the games where he was 20% due to his current injury, you have to give Pop props. And I wouldn't factor in the Nuggets B2B game, since that was intentional. His record has been stellar considering what he's had to deal with over past seasons. I know the Spurs wouldn't be 1.5-2.5 games behind LA(they're currently 9 behind) if they'd been healthy all year, but they would have a significantly better record. I personally see it as a blessing in disguise overall, with Mason and Hill being thrown in the fire cuz of Manu and TP being out early, allowing them to get chemistry far ahead of schedule.

And call me a nerd, but I'd love to see into an alternate reality where the injury bug was completely reversed between LA and SA. For me, that would mean the Spurs would've been fresh for the most part of the year, with Hill and Mason not being as comfortable in the system, but having Manu, KT, and Fab all in prime shape to start would override that. And the Bynum factor for the Spurs would most likely be Fin/Manu/Mason combining to miss the same number of games Bynum will have missed to end this season(I really don't know where Bynum is with the Lakers, I know he isn't their 1st or 2nd best player, and Odom/Fish could possibly make cases for 3rd). On the la la land side, Kobe would miss 2 games as well as be around 60% for the last 25 or so games, and Pau would miss however many TP/Manu end up averaging this year, plus half their bigs not really being in game shape for a major part of the beginning half of the season. When I type it out, I think SA could quite possibly be 1st now, but as long as they get 1st and 2nd round with homecourt advantage I'm good. I think 3rd place could do that, with the Rockets history of 1st round exits, but you never know.

[Il Caraibico]

Yes...Pop is a good coach.