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Jax always plays big minutes with his starters
Kinda head scratching though watching Bynum logging so many minutes of late.
The strategy might caught on Jax team.
Might not.
Honestly, I didn't know how to feel going to this game. I figured Pop would tank the game, preferring to rest the Big 3; however, I really coveted a win against LA in LA. Just to serve as a big " you" heading into the PO. But after seeing that hopefully minor injury to Bynum, I find a new found respect for Pop and almost find myself laughing at Phil. I know he wants a win but does that really require playing your starters heavy minutes against a Spurs team either bent on tanking the game to avoid an early matchup or a team determined to keep its starters fresh for the second season? Shame on you Phil. Thoughts?
Jax always plays big minutes with his starters
Kinda head scratching though watching Bynum logging so many minutes of late.
The strategy might caught on Jax team.
Might not.
Jackson has no one else to play. His deep bench is garbage. Of his normal bench, Odom is elite, but Brown and Barnes are just pieces. Blake has reverted to journeyman status.
Lakers are still fighting for seeding though. Big advantage playing only one series on the road in your conference verses playing 2.
Agreed. And I found it suprising how close the Spurs have kept it at times tonight, but like I said it really wouldn't take alot of minutes from LA's starters to accomplish beat this Spurs lineup. Props to the lack of a deep bench response but I still think Spurs lose regardless. I'm not saying it's for a matter of fact but I'm pretty sure Pop doesn't want to see LA in the 2nd. As experienced as Phil is, he should have seen that and coached accordingly.
LA gets HC against Dallas, wins easily in 5, well rested for WCF
also, LA gets Mem or NOH in first round
also, Spurs lose HC against Chicago
Pop just did LAL a HUGE favor
lost even more respect for Pop, he obviously doesn't care about winning the championship, only wants to make sure the spurs get out of the first round
oh well, I never really thought the Spurs had a real shot anyways
Wow, what a negative little pussy...
Sure.It was a huge favor.
But they still have to win tomorrow in SAC without Bynum.
If they lose the game and Dallas win they will be 3rd so they face Portland.
Sadly the most probably scenary for them will be NOLA and DAL
Pop trying to avoid Lakers in the second round gives them the easiest way to the West Finals while we'll have the hardest one.We would have to face them anyway and they will be more rested than us.
I'd like a lot of more our chances playing them before we play OKC
You're really having a meltdown tonight huh?
what is the point of posts like this? why aren't you able to maintain the topic of Spurs/Pop?
So I guess it's better to face them after play against MEM/OKC while they play NOLA/DAL.
I don't get the point of that.
Imo I like our chances a lot of more playing them in the second round when we will be a lot of more fresh than after play OKC if we are able to eliminate them.
In the other side Lakers would have to fight to defeate Denver while now they will have easy series against NOLA or DAL.
Pop threw this game. Anyone who is a Spurs fan knows his manlove for Bonner. Yet he pulled him in the middle of the 4th when he was on fire and hadn't missed from 3, hadn't turned the ball over, and was playing as-to-be-expected Bonner D (he stopped Odom a couple of times, but got burned a couple of times as well), and it was a one possession game with 6 to play. He also pulled Neal, right after drilling a clutch 3 with like 3 to go. And Green came in and jacked up a miss. Why?
Pop threw it, for whatever reason, but he did.
Pop cares about winning the game in front of him, he's not thinking about all the bull you just brought up. Probably because hes a professional coach and youre an armchair quarterback.
Spurs’ subs nearly stun L.A....It didn’t matter to Popovich that Tuesday’s defeat allowed Chicago to pull even in the race for the NBA’s top overall record (61-20), opening the door for home-court advantage in a potential Finals matchup to be decided by a 50-50 coin flip. The loss also ruined any chance the Spurs had of matching the franchise record of 63 wins, set in 2005-06, a pursuit that mattered even less to Popovich.
His focus, as always, remained on health and freshness, for the first round of the postseason.
“It makes more sense to play tomorrow than today,” Popovich said before the game. “Even if it was Phoenix tonight and the Lakers tomorrow, we’d end up sitting them.”
Jeff McDonald
http://blog.mysanantonio.com/spursna...s-trouble-l-a/
And pop didn't throw . Get your heads out of your asses, this isnt the conspiracy theory.
You should be respecting Pop, for prepping his team to come out and play the way they did tonight. The Spurs have nothing to be ashamed of, the way they played tonight. Always room for improvement, but anytime you get kobe and odom in foul trouble and keep it tight that long, against the defending champs, at their house, with your BENCH, you did OKAY.
That's the dam problem we had them in foul trouble with Gneal, and Pop pulls him and puts Green in the game, then follows that dumb ass move with bringing quinn back instead of ghill. Why are you defending piss poor coaching?
Neal was out for like 1 play that time. And Pop chose quinn over hill bc quinn looks better on crutches.
After Pop benched 4 out of 5 starters, people should have been smart enough to figure out that his goal wasn't winning the game.
It says a lot that you completely missed that.
We had the chance to win it, and Pop put in the ballboy's maid and her two sons instead of trying to win the game. He pulled every guy who made a shot until our worst shooters were jacking it up in the final 3 min.
Perception is not really your strong point tbh.
Its easier if you just come out and say it anakha...
Pop was not trying to win the game. He could give a damn.
Maybe he wanted to get a closer look at some bench guys to see if they could possibly contribute anything in the playoffs.
Maybe he was trying to look for other guys that might match up well specifically against the Lakers.
Maybe he was actively trying to tank the game.
I'm not going to presume I know his motivations for this game, but it's pretty ing obvious winning it wasn't his main priority given how many core guys he sat out.
And it appears that people ing about how the Spurs could still have won that game can't seem to see past their own noses.
Yes, perhaps our closing lineup of the worst shooters on the night was coincidental, and we were searching for that Quinn/Green matchup that was going to take us over the top. We closed the game with:
Splitter 3/10
Anderson 2/9
Quinn 1/7
Novak 3/6
Green 3/10
while the on the bench sat
Bonner 4/5
Neal 6/13
combined 5/7 from 3 land
Both those guys hit bombs in the 4th, and got pulled. Pop threw it.
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