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Pop was great today, his key move was playing TD the whole 2nd half
I probably wont be able to see your apologies because I put most of you cliff jumpers on ignore, but nonetheless here is your forum.
For those of you who understand basketball at a basic level at least, how good were Pop's adjustments and rotations? This team has always been a "big four" especially in the playoffs.
Pop was great today, his key move was playing TD the whole 2nd half
Most fans who criticized Pop wanted Pop to keep Bogans, Mason and Bonner nailed to the bench.
Now, Pop has Bogans and Mason on the bench, with great results. He's still playing Bonner (simply due to lack of other options), and Matt's been the Mavs' so far.
Looks like people were 100% accurate in criticizing a rotation which had flawed players, which Pop has fixed now.
Damn no kidding about Bonner, whoever he was guarding the ball went to him. But one of the great things about Pop is that he will never ever toot his own horn. so it's up to us fans to do it for h im.
No Bogans. Two bigs.... yep. He's back. I guess the regular season crap was just CIA Pop all along.
This exactly
I'll admit Pop finally pulled his head out of his ass and tightened up the lineups.
It will never happen.
So you would rather Pop didn't:
A) Evaluate the talent he had.
B) Prepare the aforementioned players should they be needed during the playoffs.
That's not mentioning Pops masterstroke of arriving at the playoffs with the big three fresh and healthy.
Yeah good call, Pop should have kept the those guys on the bench and worn the big three out. ing genius.
Bonner outside of the missed rotation on Terry played GREAT defense. He missed a couple shots but u know that's gonna happen..
Keith Bogans started 50 games. That ain't Playoff prep.
Look, it's one thing to call for Pop to be fired, but a lot of the criticism this year was justified. He took too long to settle on a rotation, he played bad players too often at the expense of developing players who could have contributed more, and he has a history of overthinking things and getting in the way.
Fortunately, he's simplified his approach, stuck to a winning strategy and gotten back to what makes him a Hall of Fame coach. It's working now.
Pop has a generally good feel for this series...he knows who is working and who isn't and finding time to rest the Big 3 when he can. He's asking certain guys to take on a lot given the stage, but overall I think he's been doing a pretty good job. He'll use guys accordingly and won't count anyone on his bench out.
Oh I get it. CIA Pop, right? And you, in your infinite wisdom, just happen to know without a shadow of a doubt that Pop played his masterstroke with the intention of the Spurs getting the #7 seed and the toughest road in this year's playoffs.
The problem with that little "rest the big 3" theory of yours is that none of us were clamoring for the big 3 to play more instead of Bogans/Mason. In fact, Garrett Temple proved it by actually playing better than Mason or Bogans when he was given some burn. Oh wait, I know! Bogans and Mason were just chucking up bad shots on purpose, right? CIA Bogans, right?
Dumbass.
NZSpurs is Pop's lover from down under. He/she knows all about the CIA stuff. We should all just shut up.
I hated the Blair/Bonner combo....outside of that pop was solid. The key for pop is almost always his big man rotation. Dice had a rest in the 3rd but came back strong in the fourth for Bonner and made a key block on Terry + SolidD
I thought so too.
Bonner hasn't been great, but he's soaked up time to rest Dice without making too many mistakes and that's all he needs to do.
I'm just hoping he'll hit a hot streak with his shooting some time soon.
That could not be explained by injuries and Pop's continued quest to figure out how to use RJ. Bogans also had a good stretch where he was a legitimate starter.
Pop uses most of the regular season as an experiment to find what works and what doesn't. I wouldn't call that over-thinking. The sooner spurs fans realize that Pop always coaches with the playoffs in mind they will better be able to evaluate the team during the season. They might also save them selves from a stomach ulcer.
Blair/Bonner combo is really hurting us this series. Let's hope Pop can find a way to now play those two together
I give Pop credit for doing what most Spurs fans have been asking for the entire season (keep Mason and Bogans on the bench and don't play smallball so much)
I still wonder if Mahinmi and Hairston could have been decent playoffs contributors if Pop would have given them enough playing time during the regular season.
Great CIA work, it earned us a 7th seed.
Its not CIA, its called being familiar with the team and the thinking, and having a ounce of basketball knowledge. Notice how most of the long term regular posters don't throw a fit during the regular season.
The same Garrett Temple who was with the team for what 15 games? I takes NBA veterans a whole season to pick up the system. I think Pop has proven he knows how to bring along rookies, case and point SJax and G Hill.
Thanks, I will inform my law professor not to waste her time marking my exam then.
That's a dishonest argument, if there was ever one. Surely you haven't forgotten the mistakes Pop made in his handling of Hill. Having Mason play the point and not trusting Hill till too late in the Mavericks series last year was something that many of us could see coming from a mile away. Only Pop was stubborn and didn't realize his error till the season was lost. Thanks to him, Hill didn't get the stage he deserved last year, and Mason never recovered from his clueless stint at PG, despite a hot start at SG.
Now you can probably spin that too and say that Pop was CIA-ing the whole season and the 1-4 defeat to the Mavs to "develop" Hill in his own way. But that would be dishonest. I mean, where does it end? Has Pop made no mistakes at all in his career? Everything he did, starting from the Mason/Hill fiasco, the Michael Finley love affair, the excessive smallball in 2006 vs the Mavs, the terrible Nick Van Exel experiment ... are we going to claim that all that was part of some grand master plan by Pop?
The truth is that Pop has made mistakes, he's human. And we're fans and have the right to call him out on a message board. By the way, I'm a "long term regular poster", only I call it the way I see it. I don't need to fake some kind of deep understanding of Pop's genius mind to blindly support every single decision he makes.
I usually stick up for Bonner, but he played terrible defense imo and was a complete no show on offense.
Pop is a HOF'er ...show respect he can coach circles around Carlisle
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