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oh i'm not saying i'm unhappy with green's general performance in the finals. still, 2-19 does hamper a team over a 2 game stretch, especially since you are supposed to be the one that makes their defense pay for being over aggressive. you don't think his lack of floor-spreading/shot-making had anything to do with manu's turnovers in game 6? it allows the defense to be hyper aggressive
boom truth grenade
if spursfan would make a try to really remember what happened, we squandered a 10pt lead in the 4th and heat had the momentum. That is when Parker took over and killed the Heat momentum and regained Spurs lead. All this was going on while Ginobili was getting his 5, 6, and 7th turnover.
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I didn't say completely, Pop will still be known forever as a great coach. However that mistake he made tarnished his legacy as it will keep it from reaching its potentially very high ceiling.
Don't get the need to on any Spurs player after an amazing season. Or to on one to prop another one up.
What do you mean "never supposed to be there"?
Was there another team that got food poisoning and couldn't make the NBA Finals?
No, they were never favored to make the finals.
Doesn't really matter who may or may not have been favored to win the finals at the beginning of the season. There were in the finals.
They were supposed to be there...because they were there. And they were seconds from winning #5 - you can't dismiss that by saying 'oh well they weren't favorited to make it this far at the beginning of the season'.
Beginning of the season? , they were not even favored at the end of the season, right before the playoffs began!
And if you remember they did not have home court advantage in the finals, nor were they favored then either!
Pop will easily be remembered as one of the top 5 head coaches of all time, at the very least.
I doubt after a few years go by that it will even be remembered by the great majority of fans in the world, so I seriously doubt it tarnishes anything.
I doubt after a few years go by that it will even be remembered by the great majority of fans in the world, so I seriously doubt it tarnishes anything.
Your right, all fans I talk to at work in here in VA (Not Spurs fans either) all praise Pop and say we made it there and lasted this long because of how great our system and coach is (Tim too lol), they all admire him and how he coaches. Fans of bball love Pop as a whole, treat him alot better than some in here.
Didn't read the thread... don't need to. One need not go to an extreme in order to counter the folks that have taken the extreme position to blame one or two guys for the Game 6 debaucle.
Parker was clearly hampered by his hamstring. He did not have the burst from earlier in the season otherwise he would have been blowing by Cole, Lebron, Wade or whoever else the Heat would have thrown at him...
ESPN agrees with the OP. They had Parker outside of the top 10 PG in the league based on some wonky advanced metric, behind the likes of Kyle Lowry, that guy he beat 4-0 in the WCF last year and Lawson ... and behind John Wall too apparently.
What probably helped the Heat to defend Green better was Lebron taking TP. It reduced the amount of help defense they needed to play.
He gets a pass because 9 is a reversed 6
There's enough blame to go around for last season.
NBA Finals loss in seven games, 12-2 Western Conference playoff record, you can't wipe that stink off matter how hard you try.
And you can't blame just one player for that kind of collective failure.
Warrior TP stuck a dagger right in the throat of the best player in the world twice, unfortunately he didn't stay down the second time while we brain farted the game away.
That step back 3 pointer he hit on LeBron was one the sickest cold blooded assassin shots in the history of the NBA.
Someone please step up and ban or pink the OP.
You are whack.
Parker had a legendary game winner in game 1.
Then he got hurt.
In the final moments of game 6 he busted a three in LeBron's stupid face, then followed that up with another shot to put us up by 2 possessions.. Where the team failed after that was Manu missing FT, Leonard missing FT, and the entire team letting that punk Wade push them around for 2 straight rebound attempts.
Blaming Parker is absurd.
Parker had the entire defense keyed on him and he still went ape a few times, he had LeBron ing James, one of the best perimeter defensive players, on him most of the time and he was playing with a calf injury. gtfo with this , as far as on the court Manu was the worst player in the Finals
This.
Parker was getting penetration with ease when James on him in the early games of the series. That changed a little when he got hurt, and now all a sudden James was slowing down Parker. (Revisionist history 101.)
Well, yeah, but even hobbled Parker was getting the Spurs offense the looks it needed to win not only games, but the series.
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