Greg Popovich Coaching Shelf Life (Health Question)

[Fabbs]

This is not about his coaching abilities. This is about his health. (which you may think is translating into declining ability to coach. That's a separate matter)
I think he's done as a coach tbh.

SA210

Pop went senile 6 years ago. Too late.

Would be interesting to know in retrospect if indeed in addition to his stubborness undoings he had onset of dementia as a contributing factor.

[HI-FI]

SA210

Would be interesting to know in retrospect if indeed in addition to his stubborness undoings he had onset of dementia as a contributing factor.

Probably not dementia but excessive drinking tbh. He's got a drunks nose. Wine is good and all but everything in moderation.

[CitizenDwayne]

Pop's fine.

And sure, D'antoni sucks, but I doubt his age has anything to do with it.

[Seventyniner]

Thinly veiled agenda is thinly veiled.

[Baseline]

Popovich is the most overrated coach of all-time. He has four rings because of Tim Duncan, yet he sits Duncan in the last minute of a closeout game - and that's precisely why he doesn't have five rings. This stuff isn't rocket science. If you have the pieces and the talent, you steer it so it doesn't go off a cliff. Pop is no wizard. And he cost Tim a fifth ring. Period.

[TheGreatYacht]

I officially hate Gregg Popovich. The most overrated coach of all-time. Duncan, Manu, Robinson, Bowen, and to an extent, Parker, carried your hacked up face to those les. You didn't do expect tell the guys to play defense. I was on your bandwagon for most of the year. , no one expected the Spurs to do much of anything and your offensive system got to them into the Western Conference Finals riding a 20 game winning streak.

The problem with you, Greggory, is not your X's and O's, it's the way you stubbornly stick to your rotations and refuse to improvise those rotations on the fly. Gary in' Neal should have not seen one more goddamn minute tonight. This was a game Parker should've played every minute of the 3rd and 4th quarters. fatigue. There's about 70 TV timeouts per quarter, and those minutes should be enough rest for a world class athlete in his physical prime. Yet, despite the liability Neal has been all in' series, you put him in for Parker with close to 6 minutes left in the quarter. And just like last time you did so, the Thunder went on a run.

Are you in' re ed, Greggory? Serious question.

For the second straight year you ed this team with stupid rotations and roster decisions. http://www.spurstalk.com/forums/showthread.php?t=198885

You are not very bright are you?

Two years in a row - I said that POP would up the Spurs chances for a le - and the Spurs would have to win IN SPITE OF POP.


Scotti Brooks - all of 16 years old - puts Sefalosha on Parker - and Pop s the in bed- after young Scotti spots Pop two games.

Next year all the Popsuckers are frothing at the mouth and their vaginas are moist with "pop-love" and what happens?

Pop s the bed in game 6.

I am giving you a free long-range prediction for next year and you are sitting here with your pop-suckin-thumb up your ass and talking about vegas odds?

Just stop before you embarrass yourself further.

Losers are happy with 2nd place.

Losers feel fortunate to have already won a le.

Losers will accept anything the front office does - because - well - see above...

Losers think you are selfish and spoiled - to be critical of anything - Pop and the front office do.




Do you think Lakers and Celtics fans - should just stop wanting their team to win more les?

Do you think the Celtics fans gave up their rights to question their front office?




Spurstalk is full of losers and this offseason has revealed what losers most of you are. No one is calling for Pop's head. No one is calling bull on the Manu contract - as much as I love Manu - he is not worth this contract and he has deteriorated significantly and it is painful to see.



Losers will continue to lose. Enjoy.

[kobyz]

Pop is too old, we should bring Jerry Sloan to replace him.

[milkyway21]

Coaching a 37-yr old TD, injured TP, injured Manu, Diaw just from a surgery, if you look closely, it was almost impossible for the Spurs to reach what they had accomplished in 2012-13 season. To the Finals.

So it does not warrant your move for him to stop coaching.


Slipping, I think, or the in so-called "execution" function maybe, but he's more on the stubborn side than dementia.

Like he yanked out Duncan when they already had no time-out left, then re-inserted again? huh? That was so out of the blue.. Negligence of Pop? or his asst. coaches?

[ChumpDumper]

Agenders assemble!®

[HemisfairArena]

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[xmas1997]

Another really stupid hate thread. Name one coach who is better.

[HemisfairArena]

Another really stupid hate thread. Name one coach who is better.

Name one coach who has ever benched a top 10 player of all time in game 6 of the Finals with a 5 point lead and the le on the line. ...even Phil Jackson never benched Hack a Shaq in that situation.

[xmas1997]

Phil Jackson? Geez, certainly you can do better than that, can't stand that * SOB.

[Ocotillo]

Adelman and D'antoni don't do anymore and are clearly past their prime like Pop.

D'Antoni had a prime?

[HemisfairArena]

Phil Jackson? Geez, certainly you can do better than that, can't stand that * SOB.

Can you read? Pop is the only poor coach that would ever do what he did in game 6 in the Finals.

[xmas1997]

I can read, but apparently you can't, you don't answer a question with another question.

[Clipper Nation]

I could see Pop in a Tex Winter role in a couple years, tbh....

[xmas1997]

I could see Pop in a Tex Winter role in a couple years, tbh....

Might happen, but I doubt it. He will retire first IMHO.

[Rogue]

Pop is Sir Alex Ferguson in basketball and you can never say Fergie won those honors because of Keane & Beckham, or Rooney & Ronaldo. Pop only got some scraps from drafts into the 2000s, but he turned them all into solid role players or even star players. He only tanked one year to get Duncan and made a dynasty that lasted well over a decade, which's not that easy for a small-market team imho. You may have assembled a squad made of top drafts and talents but there're still many ways for you to fail (like OKC)

[maverick1948]

64? That's pretty old no. He's like double the age of Brad Stevens. The NBA is now getting filled with the younger coaches. Jason Kidd, Brad Stevens, Analytical Guys, Eric Spoelstra etc.

Hubie Brown, George Karl, Larry Brown, Phil Jackson, Pat Riley and most of his contemporaries are no longer coaching. Who else is an NBA coach over 60 years old?

The only guy older than him is Rick Adelman, and other than that, it's Mike D'Antoni who is over 60.

No it isn't old. Just ask me. I am older than Pop and I'm not old.

[anakha]

Offseason really brings out the idiots in here.

[HemisfairArena]

Offseason really brings out the idiots in here.

and here you sit.

[anakha]

and here you sit.

Tell us again how Holt not owning 50% of the Spurs makes him the majority owner.

[HemisfairArena]

Tell us again how Holt not owning 50% of the Spurs makes him the majority owner.

If you dont understand that...you are one of the idiots on here that you talk about.

[anakha]

If you dont understand that...you are one of the idiots on here that you talk about.

Still holding on to that delusion despite being shown the definition of a majority owner and being provided information that Holt doesn't own 50% of the team.

Where's the proof that Holt owns 50%? Still waiting.