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You would of been more convincing if you started this thread after a win. Instead you come across as a raging, whiny, Spurs fan, whose having a meltdown after a loss. But, hey, maybe you feel better now.
Postgame presser and he's praising the team's effort and talking about how hard they played and saying the reason the team lost was because Bonner and RJ missed some open shots.
Holy we scored 108 points. That should be enough.
Pop is R.I.P and has been for a while. He's Don Nelson now. We need to accept it.
He doesn't give a about defense. He's not even trying. Just cashing checks. And Holt is a clown who keeps paying them. Whole coaching staff full of yes men.
"What's that? Play RJ and Bonner 30 minutes a night Pop? Sure, great idea."
"What? You don't think Tim and Tiago can play together? Me neither."
I hate this.
You would of been more convincing if you started this thread after a win. Instead you come across as a raging, whiny, Spurs fan, whose having a meltdown after a loss. But, hey, maybe you feel better now.
"They made some shots"
It's no secret the our style of play is based upon making 3's and hoping the other team makes enough defensive mistakes. That recipe will win you plenty of games in the regular season but not in the playoffs. In the playoffs teams will cut down on their mistakes and those 3's won't be available.
Pop is a world class bull ter, but he's done a damn good job considering he's had extremely limited assets to work with (partially his fault tbh..). He's had to abandon his principles but, it's hard to find too much fault with Pop overall.
I'm really hoping Pop had a different tone behind closed doors. If Pop was fine with that defensive effort, someone needs to put together an intervention.
He just doesn't give a if people make open jumpers anymore. The only thing defensively that gets his attention is if people go crazy on the offensive boards or if we have like a million turnovers and the transition defense is bad. But he doesn't care about open jumpers at all.
Pop's not going to get in the press conference and say Bonner is a and Jefferson blows.
4 rings..... wait, that
or switch names and adjectives around...same difference...
The first step to fixing a problem is admitting the problem. If Pop can't even admit the defense is bad there's no help for him. I thought this was the year where he was going back to his defensive fundamentals.
I think Pop is just trying to keep his sanity...or what's left of it. He's got a lot of soft players who probably can't take a harsh critique. But that's just one part of it. There are a lot of factors at play here. A possible list might include: reality, small market, the effects of alcoholism, airheaded players, the effects of age, stubborness, etc...
Fire him and hire...?
hire...?
Exactly. Here is the problem, but I got no remedy. Damn easy and a coward's way.
I don't know bout that, but Pop's love fest for Danny Green has got to stop, the guy is ing horrible, he's such a terrible defender...Paul was having his way with Green the whole damn time. I still want to know why Kawhi was benched?
Babying them isn't helping either.
fun part: when I wake up in the mornung, I dont check nba.com ect. to see if the Spurs won...I just take a look at the upper posts of spurstalk:
if its "can parker win mvp", "is kawhi already better than bowen", "what is tim duncan's religion" or "can we get D12 for Blair+filler" (ok, I made the last one up)...than we probably won.
if its "fire Pop", "why does Pop play Bonner?", "just break up the team and start all over!" or again "what is tim duncan's religion" then we probably lost.
both is stupid. Its the regular season for gods sake! and even if it wasnt, you cant tell the whole story just coz of a few games! we are fine, where we are at. last time I cheacked, we were in the upper western standings...while the goal was to get into the playoffs and see from there. will we win a ship this year? I wouldnt bet on it, but neither would have a Dallas fan a year ago.
I take Pop over every other Coach at any time. Does it seem, that he sometimes is too smart for his own good? maybe! but he sees his players in every practice....knows more on them, than us or just wants to experiment a little bit as long as the games are not that important anyway.
And would you really prefer having, say, Mike Dunleavy on our sideline?
Last edited by mudyez; 03-10-2012 at 02:53 AM.
How about the old defensive minded Pop or Phil Jackson? Heck any defensive minded coach would be an upgrade at this point. I would much rather lose because we couldn't put up enough points than because we're allowing teams to score 120.
spurfan is realistic
Do you post this after every loss? Serious question.
I'd go with Budenholzer. Why not? He's been groomed for years. Lets see what he can do. Surely he must have some ideas in that head of his.
So true - however, one have to be few time zones in front
Pop not going to admit he was in experimental mode,gambling on both ends while messing with rotations and line-ups.
Go with the obvious. Bonner, Rj and Neal were trashy. Tony was out.
The spurs really had nobody to effectively guard Paul with both Parker and Ford out. This would have been a good time for Pop to throw a few zone defenses at the clippers, but of course that would require actual coaching.
The old Pop that cared about defense is dead
You can lead a camel to water but you can't make him drink. Bowen is gone and Duncan is half the man he used to be. What do you expect from a coach that has no choice but to throw out the likes of Bonner, Neal, Green & company. This team is paper thin defensively and no matter what defensive strategy Pop draws up on the whiteboard, the team will fail miserably.
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