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nice article: but I really can't agree with you that Pop is not a good coach. In fact there're not so many good coaches in today's NBA, but Pop is inarguably one of them.
Pop's coaching this season has been iffy and I honestly feel they could have won a few more games if pop didn't screw up the rotations in the fourth quarter of many games. I'm also a little concerned at the playing time gooden is receiving, if the spurs wanna go deep they need golden to be playing. Anyone else thinks pop might cost the spurs games in the playoffs with his unwillingness to play the better pLayers like hill, gooden and Bowen? I really don't understand what's goin through pops head and it's the first time coming into the playoffs that I'm worried about the coaching. Anyone else feel this way?
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nice article
this.nice article
I do think pop is a great coach, he just has been erratic this season. Moving away from defense, focusing on offense scares me. People say Bowen lost a step our defense isn't as flgood as it used to be. But think about it we are still up there in the defensive category given that pop hasn't emphasized on it. I feel that our defense can still be better if they just focused on it a little more. I think that great defense will still give us a better shot at winning than offense.
This is un ing believable. If I was a fan of a lesser team and I heard this coming out of a Spurs fan's mouth I would ing vomit. I will give Pop AT LEAST 4 ty years as head coach, as it is appropriate considering he's got 4 rings, before I will truly question him. Go root for L.A. or Cleveland you ing spoiled .
Pop's coaching style this season is a direct consequence of the players he's had to work with. Factor in the new faces and the injuries to key players and the need to adjust to increasingly tougher compe ion, its not surprising Pop has been experimenting to see what works best hopefully come the playoffs. I think this has been Pop's most challenging season and he's done a terrific job.
I don't really dissagree on POPS decisions, Hill dosent have any experience in the playoffs and hasnt played where it counts, but he shouldent have really played Vaughn, he is just a scrub. Gooden needs to get alot of minutes off the bench, sorta like starter minutes, I will really be dissapointed if he dosent get 30+ minutes. Bowen has really slowed it down this year, he is not the old Bowen we are used to watching, anyways we need to try and get rid of Bowen and get a younger type of him or just stick with Udoka who has shown this year he can produce when given the opprtunity,thats why I don't know why people call Udoka a scrub.
You're a mushroom cloud laying moth er?
wow, this looks like the ramblings of a psychotic
A 18 and 5 line from Gooden and a similar line from Ginobili are worlds apart. Gooden cannot replace the impact of Ginobili by matching his output. The sooner you realise this the sooner you will realise what Pop is dealing with.
this is exactly what im talking about. no gooden and matt bonner in the fourth? thats really messed up, i dont really think gooden plays worse defense than matt but at least he can shoot the ball (i know he didnt shoot well but was at least aggressive). pop u have to play gooden more mins! he can get offensive rebounds!! there was a stretch in the fourth where they only got one attempt per possession and gooden could've helped. heck hill on barea. even if he's a rookie all he had to do was play d on barea and thats more than enough.
i cant believe there are still TOOLS defending pop's coaching.
he WAS a great coach but now hes ty as .
its OK to call him out on making stupid ass decision when they are costing us playoff games.
Pop is a great coach, but I don't understand his love affair with Bonner. The guy is a regular season player. I mean when does he hit big shots? Finley was money all night mase tried to save us, Bonner can't do .
exactly! is there actually anybody here who honestly thinks pop has done a great job with the rotations this march towards the playoffs?
he was really awful. going small when desperate and constantly playing matt bonner again and again.
My left nut is a better coach than Poopavitch.nice article
Making a topic like this after a loss is weak make it before the game starts if your serious.
Pops a stupid ! Play Bonner more!
uhm kindly check my posting date. it was after midnight, way before the game.
never did i say that he wasn't fantastic! he has been for many years it's just that coming to the end of this season and start of the playoffs, he keeps on playing awful players more, matt bonner over gooden, bowen not getting more mins (i feel he can defend better than other perimeter players), and not giving hill a lil chance.
Popovich is the most overrated coach in the league.
What he has done this year as a coach is embarrassing. What the Spurs players have done this year in spite of his stubbornness and idiocy is truly remarkable.
What other NBA coach would start Matt Bonner? What other NBA coach would bench Bowen all year long? What other NBA coach would not play George Hill when there's a guy like Barea running around making us look silly? What other NBA coach would seriously consider Mike Finley a "good" defensive 2 who can guard the best scorer on opposing teams?
Here's another question...don't you think your grandmother could coach a Tim Duncan team to 4 les? I know mine could.
Popovich can take the back exit any 'ole time if you ask me. if had enough of his totalitarian schtick.
Now people are going into full-on meltdown mode. Pop led us to over 50 wins in one of the toughest conferences in years to compete with a makeshift, often-injured unit.
I surely could not believe that I was watching an NBA playoff game with 6 minutes to go and the Spurs were playing:
Mason at PG
Udoka
Finley
Bonner
I felt bad for Tim out there.
put the Kool-Aid down!
Bonner was the biggest let down. The rest of the puzzle was obviously initially contingent upon Manu playing....without him, it shifts the balance of everything. Nevertheless, it's one game.
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