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the lineups were perfectly fine for this game. they do not have a strong frontline
Congrats to the team for laying it all out tonight.
Pop deserves six swift kicks to the junk for a shortened bench and no one taller than 'Dice seeing the floor tonight. Larry Brown is the worst thing to ever happen to Pop's coaching decisions.
This has to be one of if not the worst coached game of Pop's career.
the lineups were perfectly fine for this game. they do not have a strong frontline
1) Death
2) Taxes
3) AHF ing about Pop
You wanted Haislip out there?
Manu 0-10 from the field, 2 pts on the night. I don't think that's on Pop (Ginobili did everything else but score though).
The lineups weren't fine at all..
At one point, there was a lineup consisting of Parker, Hill, Manu, Mason and Blair..Mason was ing guarding Jeff Green..luckily the Thunder didn't go to him..
Pop played an 8-man rotation, despite playing against an athletic team that always gives us problems and we were on a b2b..he didn't play an interior defender at all this game and the entire team was clearly dead by the 4th..he should have used the young guys and the bench more IMO..
Pop wasn't the main or only problem, but he coached a poor game tonight IMO..
Did the Spurs lose?
Pop did his job.
Why didn't Mahinmi and Ratliff play?
Nope. If only we had a long, lanky, athletic big. Like a 15/9 in his last game type... that we could have put in.
Voluntarily shortening to an 8-man rotation on a back-to-back is pretty crazy.
And, Parker was obviously exhausted by the half... but hey, in the end, he got a clutch basket at the end of regulation. And the Spurs toughed it out, sucked it up and got the W. So maybe in the long run, a tough, short-manned game like this will help them.
We need shot blockers if he isn't going to play the ones we've got, trade for someone that he trusts.
spurs won, but no thanks to pop.
Eh, I'm not sure he could have done anything with Durant. It would have been nice to see.
I would trade this victory to have seen 28 minutes of Ian out there tonight
there won't be another opportunity like this one to evaluate him against legit NBA talent, soon Bonner will return, Blair and McDyess continue to improve in the Spurs' system, Pop will start to settle on his lineups and rotations...
So you'd rather Ian Mahinmi play than win the game.
Sorry, I'm strange in that I want to win games. Weird like that.
I dont understand why at the end of the 4th blair didn't get any touches... He was having an amazing game and still no touches? It's stupid.
Pop haters are ridiculous. Leave it to them to still find something to about after a great undermanned win, on the road, against the arguably the hottest team in the NBA over the last month. Go try your hand in coaching Im sure teams are dying to sign you with your clear superior knowledge over Pop.
It was great to see them win and will do wonders for everyone's confidence.
That said, you know Pop's stubborness as well as I do. We'll get in a hole against the Lakers and Pop will think he can trot out a front line of Mason, Jefferson, and Blair to get back into the damn game. And we'll lose by 30.
I would never trade this win. This one was damn valuable. On a B2B against another +.500 team. This win was HUGE.
Yo' broski I was about to yell at you until I saw the words in the bracket, way to give my man some credit. The insane hussle play to lead to the jefferson game winning shot was wiiiild
It's not so much about tonight, it's about the bigger picture. You will see that lineup again somewhere when Pop thinks he can be cute, only there will be a coach on the other sideline smart enough to post up whoever Mason or Jefferson are taking turns guarding at PF.
Not Durant necessarily. There was just no one at the rim to fend off any Thunder players who drove to the basket. Blair did better than expected but even the damned Thunder announcers said repeatedly "they need to attack the rim because the Spurs have no shot blockers". And they did. They got the lead by attacking the rim.
Ratliff or Mahinmi could have received the same burn Ratliff did yesterday, about 4 minutes from the end of the first through the beginning of the second.
Seriously, they were scoring at will in the paint during the 3rd quarter, why not trying Mahinmi just 2 or 3 min.
I don't know, Pop must really hate him. I don't understand.
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