Yes pop deservers another thread about his horrible decisions thus far, this season.
Pop, is starting to give me second thoughts.
He has been an excellent coach, but these past 2 years, he has def. been slipping.
He is making very questionable decisions with his team and it’s starting to really tick me off.
Very questionable line-ups, making me pull out my damn hair. He starting not to coach “Spurs basketball”.
He’s playing very “un-athletic” players : Bonner, Udoka, Vaughn.
When we see some young blood with some potential and actual athleticism, Pop just benches them, trades them ,waives them etc.
And then we go back to our original scrubs of Udoka, Bonner, Vaughn. Gahh..yes Bonner can shoot. That’s it.
Hariston was kicking ass for us, Mensa-Bonsu show spirit and hustle, what almost every spur’s player lacks right now.
Spurs need a spark player, something to get the fans up off their feet about. For reals. I Am a huge SPURS fan, and have been all my life. But it seems this year’s games have been really boring, except a few. We have evolved to a jump shooting “old” and injury prone team with bad coaching decsisions. Yes , we have a decent record, but when it comes time to beat the teams that matter, we rarely do. And when we do its just purely off 3 point shots lol. Even Timmy is pissing me off shooting long-ass jumpers. Tony starting to shoot threes, Mason Bonner Finley getting in slumps off jumpshots. We have ZERO slashers, we have ZERO energy bringers (not including Manu), making it tough to give us fans for something to cheer about. God Forbid we get a dunk in game, pop will put you on the reserve/inactive list. And where the is our “D”?? Bowen is a proven defender, he should be starting til his legs fall off. Even if he has lost a step, it’s still 10x steps faster than Udoka or Finley. Duncan seriously needs help downlow on the block, and putting Bonner there does jack- . If not makes it worse for Tim. Gooden should get the start, easily. Better defender and more athleticism than our current C/PF’s. And Oberto should back him up. I miss Oberto, his basketball IQ is very high and he’s not that bad of a player. I miss our old team, I hate watching the games as we slowly deteriorate as an old jumpshooting team with a scrub bench and a jacked up lineup.
Come playoff time I hope something gets fixed asap. Maybe even sooner..
PG- Parker
SG- Ginobili
SF- Bowen
PF- Gooden
C- Duncan
Backup
PG- Hill
SG- Mason
SF- Finley
PF- Oberto
C- Thomas
That my friends, is a solid line-up.
And something that needs to be put in effect as soon as Ginobili comes back.
Re-activate Harriston, please
De-activate udoka
I could on….but I will stop here.
/end rant
besides Orlando, Milwaukee (), and Cleveland (who we've only played once), we've beaten every playoff team from both conferences this season. Who else are we supposed to beat?
In a 7-game series. Not just 1 game.
With the way were are playing now, and the same line-up.
Considering all teams are healthy.
Lakers – NO chance – all around great team, kobe is always clutch.
Cavs – No chance – all around great team, and lebron is a beast this year.
Magic – No chance, Howard will wreck us all day. Making Bonner look like a trans-gender girl scout who got abused as a child..
Celtics – small chance, celtics is a good team, showing signs of age also. But they have a lot more Hustle than we do.
Those are the only teams that I am worried about, because they are the ones that stand in our way for that ring and pose a huge threat. One close season win, doesn’t mean much. Spurs lack the at ude this year. We are no longer called the “Dirty” spurs. I loved that name. We live and die off that 3 point shot. Nuff said. So just hop off Pop’s balls for just a sec, and think about it.
I really don’t wanna see the spurs knocked off in the first or second round, because the blazers pushed them around. I don’t even wanna see them get beat by the lakers , going all that way. We are a good team. Come playoff time if were are playing like this/coached like this we stand little chance against the elites Lakers/Cavs/Magic/Celtics.
LMAO "Yogurt210", is this you with your dad?
LMAO "Yogurt210", is this you with your dad?
That’s actually you and Pop’s wit your ugly ass mom in the back, haha
Lmao, be a Cavs or Lakers fan then.
Some Spurs fans can't seem to get the point that Pop's way of thinking is way different than the rest of us.
Sigh,
the 15 year olds return.
Let me sum it up for you. If you're this resentful about the Spurs and Pop then maybe you really aren't a true Spurs fan. Maybe you just liked them because they were champions. Bottom line is every team has its ups and downs. Yesterdays loss was definitely a down. But at the end of the day I trust Pop because I know he's one of the best coaches of all time. So give me a break.
Well, if your going to shrug this kinda stuff off, and watch the spurs slowly lose it. Then hey , that’s you. Don’t expect much come playoff time. And its not just 1 game, it’s been an overall season. I am from SA Town born and raised, spurs fan since I was crawling, so I’m def. not a bandwagoner. No sir. When I see something wrong with my team and nothing is being done for 1 game or for a whole season, I will be sure to express it. That’s how real fans are. Up’s and downs, yes. A lot of those UPS could have easily been downs. I think this year was our worst rodeo road trip correct?
Alright basketball expert, who should coach the team instead?
And NOT, this year's road trip was NOT.
Whatever we are thinking here....Pop is thinking the exact opposite. Every yr. its the same thing....we praise him...we bash him...but at the end of every year we love the guy. Pop is taken for granted just as much as Tim is. They should both be praised for what they have done since they set foot here. They are the reason we have 4 les. And the reason we are still in contention every year even when we don't take it all. But 4 in 9 years is pretty damn amazing, considering some teams have ZERO. No matter all the that has happened this year, I still believe in Pop, and this team, and we'll be there right in the end, where we belong.
Waiting....
I've said it before and I'll say it again....
Once again, the only people or person who can rant or give his/her opinion is TPark and a guy named Eric B.
Whatever we are thinking here....Pop is thinking the exact opposite. Every yr. its the same thing....we praise him...we bash him...but at the end of every year we love the guy. Pop is taken for granted just as much as Tim is. They should both be praised for what they have done since they set foot here. They are the reason we have 4 les. And the reason we are still in contention every year even when we don't take it all. But 4 in 9 years is pretty damn amazing, considering some teams have ZERO. No matter all the that has happened this year, I still believe in Pop, and this team, and we'll be there right in the end, where we belong.
But, but, but -- Spurs fans are en led to another ring and Gregg Know Nothing Popovich is screwing that all up!!!!!!!!
I mean, people in the know have the utmost respect for Pop. They will tell you that no coach has more respect from his crew than Popovich. His team doesn't place any great emphasis on the regular season, yet consistently wins 56+ games (an exceptional number if you think about it). His teams have won at least one playoff round in all but 2 years of his career -- one was his first year, the other was the year he had to play without his superstar. For years, franchises have made runs to displace the Spurs atop the West and nobody -- NO BODY -- has been able to sustain such a run over the same time that the Spurs have. Pop's been at the heart of player evaluations throughout that time and has overseen at least 2 substantial overhauls of personnel and (to some degree even) philosophy. The end result of that? Wins, of course.
So when Pop tinkers during the regular season -- when he harkens back to the dilemma he faced in 2006 when cir stances basically forced him to use smallball lineups that he'd never really given any thought or time to -- and plays with combinations to consider how to deal with any number of things his team might face in the post-season, I think it's a really, really fair criticism to suggest that he's lost it. When he thinks that guys who are athletic, energy players don't have the size, strength, or talent to play consistently at the NBA level, it's reasonable to think that Pop just hates youth and athleticism (reasonable, particularly in light of the fact that Pop has almost never been unwilling to give time to young, athletic guys who have NBA-ready size, strength, and talent). When Pop doesn't panic over a disappointing regular season loss, I think it's appropriate to blast him for his unwillingness to adapt.
Really, I do.
So if Pop didn’t think Hariston or Bonsu was big and athletic enough to play in the NBA, what the does he think about Bonner and Udoka? Give me a break.
We are not the same Spurs team ,love it or hate it. I see this team slowly going in a different direction. But you can surely count me as A spurs fan always and forever. To be honest I think Pop’s is just setting us up for next season. And kinda blowing this one off.
I'd say that Pop thinks -- like other NBA franchises have -- that both Bonner and Udoka have the ability to play regularly at the NBA level.
It's funny that you point to Pops Mensah-Bonsu, who is already with his 3rd NBA team (one that blows chunks at the moment, for what that's worth) and still hasn't even come close to reaching 40 NBA games.
But, by all means, I encourage you to get out there and apply for a job as an NBA talent evaluator. I'm sure you know more than Gregg Popovich -- you've already demonstrated that much.
At some point -- specifically, the point at which Tim Duncan is no longer playing -- all of this luxury of being a perrennial contender will end, abruptly. There is no sense in trying to build beyond Duncan. The Spurs best hope after Duncan retires is to get really bad and pray that they land another guy who has all-world talent and an all-universe head. For now, though, the Spurs are rightfully building to try to make as many more runs at it with Duncan around as possible. In that regard, it makes no sense to try to keep a bunch of project-type players around. It's much more feasible to find guys who are undoubtedly NBA players and make them the pieces that surround the big star in the middle.
I think you're foolish if you think Pop is blowing off the season. I think that Pop is working through combinations at times and trying to cobble things together while one of the 3 stars that his team was built around is out and while another of those 3 stars is hobbling. And, frankly, I think he's done a remarkable job of it. For this team to be 3 up on everyone in the West, other than LA, this close to the end of a season that has seen the Spurs absolutely ravaged by injury is amazing to me.
the only team we currently have no chance of beating in a 7 game series is the Lakers. Magic flounder come playoff time, and I don't trust the Cavs supporting cast come playoff time either.
There's a difference between critiquing someone and just being ignorant. Pop is one step ahead of all of us, he gets paid to think every rotation and lineup through. Ranting on the forum about what you think should happen is just being ignorant.
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