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It takes a so called "young, terrible" coach in Doc Rivers to call out the league,
while Pop, with every bit of 50m in the bank at least, has said nary a word in his entire tenure.
All those times the Spurs got jobbed in the playoffs, and Pop likes to pretend for his players, and their efforts sake,
that this league isn't as rigged as a winch cable.
Pop is deluded, and no doubt thinks if he complains publicly, the Spurs will get treated even worse.
Well, Pop, the Spurs haven't rang in 7 years (and counting after RefKC "beats us" next round),
so I am not sure what you think your cowardly silence gains.
Maybe he doesn't think the league is rigged. [/conjecture]
Youre an idiot op. POP has stood up to Stern and the league more than most coaches. In the way he operates his team, lineups, interviews, interaction with refs, etc. You can tell many at the league officess aborr Pop.
He just knows how to do it and get away with it. He still needs to play the game by gheir rules or he would have been banished long ago.
Oh yeah?
Then please provide quotes and links displaying Pop's bravery.
I'll save you the trouble, and tell you won't find a thing.
Because it ain't there.
The longer history of Pop's refusal to do David Stern's bidding:
http://sports.yahoo.com/news/nba--da...194828970.html
According to the rules, the right call was made. Sooo, doc looks like a whiney baby, that doesn't know the rule book?
that gif gets me every time
yeah man pops the worse. trade his ass!!!
So, Stern and his refs send the Spurs home on multiple occasions,
and Pop never says a single word.
But you think Pop is some cavalier, brave, folk hero, because he rested some guys?
Come on guys, no one is this naive.
No one is this naive except you. You dont have to say things into microphone to fight a regime. Wake up.
Your initial post was about Pop not "standing up" to the league. Several people have shown ways in which that observation is patently false. So, now you change the argument and now you're trying to say that we're making Popovich a hero?
I don't think Pop is a cavalier, brave folk hero. I think he's a basketball coach who's had the guts to challenge a very powerful commissioner on a lot of things during the course of his tenure as a basketball coach while creating a franchise that is the envy of the entire league.
Pop doesn't about officiating and made-up conspiracies because his teams win (even if they haven't actually won a le in 7 years) at a rate that is basically unprecedented in the history of this league, no matter what the league's game officials might or might not try to do during the course of games.
If you think there's some vast conspiracy to keep the Spurs down, it doesn't make a lot of sense to be a Spurs fan or to continue watching a league that you think is rigged against the team you choose to support.
There is a difference, and a big one, between having a public temper tantrum and standing up for your team.
Mark Cuban is a good example of someone who has had a lot of public temper tantrums and paid the fines for them. Last night Rivers had one and it might well have been for the purpose of impacting how the next game (or two) is (are) called. Coaches used to do a lot of the kind of thing that Rivers did last night in '80's and '90s. And everybody knew it was for the purpose of impacting how the next game was called.
Pop's approach is to send tape to the league offices and request that they be reviewed and paid attention to in the future. I don't define that as cowardice. I define that as a more mature response to the same problem. It is up to the league to determine which is more effective.
Questioning the legitimacy of the league is to call into question 4 championships sitting in the Spurs trophy case. Pop knows the game is not rigged. Refs are not perfect. And they do make mistakes, and I think some are influenced by certain players and certain stadiums. But ultimately, if your players play better than the other teams', you're gonna win. You think the NBA is in the tank for the Thunder, then why do they not have a single championship and have only made it to the finals once, where they were beat soundly?
I could spell it all out for you.
But that is uneccassary.
School is in session in the WCF, where Stern and Silver will gift the Thunder the series, per par.
If you need further history lessons, see the 2012 WCF, where Spurs were up 2-0, going to sweep OKC, or beat them 4-1,
until the big time, high dollar rigging began per par.
Westbrook got injured last year
Influenced? you mean like zombies? if refs make stupid call after stupid call when you have a nice lead helping the opposite team when they donīt deserve it thatīs BS, it doesnt matter if you are in a stadium in Congo or Delaware or if the player is Shaq or Delonte West, you are a ref to judge whats really going on...NOTHING ELSE.
Thunder went to the finals to make the Durant vs Lebron show, Lebron already fell against Dallas and SA so this was perfect he would get his ring and Stern his ratings. Game 6 against the Thunder was a full 64 piece/whistle concert.
I question the legitimacy of the league yeah.
With this breakout performance, poeticism has quite possibly moved into the Top 5 Worst Posters in the Spurs Forum ranking.
This is an impressive list of names as we enter the final stretch of the postseason.
jkid
testies
apalisoc
jARS mEsH sEt
poeticism
I'm staying true to my original pick, jkid. I think he has what it takes to finish at the top.
Also, my guess is that Pop doesn't question the legitimacy of the league because he doesn't think there's any real basis to question the legitimacy of the league.
Pop's a very, very bright man and I have the sense that while basketball is important to him, it's also not some all-consuming thing that he needs to have in order to have a quality life. My sense of Pop is that if he thought there was some sort of illegitimacy to the league, he'd walk away from it. Fundamentally, he seems driven as much by his belief in the thrill of competing and testing himself and his players against the best challenges they can find and trying to overcome those challenges in legitimate compe ion. Maybe I've misunderstood him, but having watched him pretty closely for the better part of 20 years now, I can't see Pop just continuing to devote time and passion to something that isn't legitimate.
And if the response to that is that Pop benefits financially from continuing to be involved in basketball and sticks around despite the alleged illegitimacy of the NBA, then it doesn't make sense to complain about his public silence concerning the imagined conspiracy.
People like OP are the same ones who used to about Phil Jackson's manipulation of the media. They want everything both ways...perhaps in more than one respect.
Should we start running a fantasy league for this next season, tbh?
Should we start running a fantasy league for this next season, tbh?
We can pe ion the Powers That Be (Kori, Slomo, Bruno, You) to pink the winner of the poll.
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