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Yeah. It was out of control at that point, no sense in letting possible injuries happen to our starters. Let the team feel like and realize what they had done by not rebounding or making their open looks, might be valuable in game 4.
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Yeah. It was out of control at that point, no sense in letting possible injuries happen to our starters. Let the team feel like and realize what they had done by not rebounding or making their open looks, might be valuable in game 4.
The top Thunder guys ran in the high 30s, while our guys were all around 30 or less. Not sure keeping the main guys in would have made much of a difference as the bench did admirably against the Thunder's total scrubs. He may have also used it to send a message to TP and others to wake up.
yes since it is now every other day
but that patty three counts spurs could have made it close then go back with duncan
No, Ibaka is injured. We need to make him play major minutes as much as possible. Not give him a break by resting our guys too.
Never been a fan, especially when it was a 14pt game with a lot of time left when he pulled the plug... Pop has done this many times before.
I mean this is what he's been resting guys all season for... I get Tim and Manu, who are older, but Danny, Tiago, Kawhi, Boris, I thought they deserved to try to make a comeback.
I remember the lead being at least 17 when he finally took everyone out.
way too many times.
Parker/Duncan/Ginobili absolutely should have sat, but I would have been fine with Pop leaving Kawhi/Green/Diaw/Splitter/Mills on the floor..especially Patty, he needs to get in some kind of rhythm, badly..
I think we weren't winning this game if we played another 10 quarters. Basically everything and everyone was off, except for Manu. We weren't hitting open looks, couldn't get a stop on D, couldn't get a call on O... I know many things can happen with 6 mins left, but I feel we couldn't come back this time anyways.
I don't disagree with him pulling the starters but I don't agree with how the subs played. I don't think they should play to make it close, they should play to try to win, even if it means atempting to do something miraculous. The spurs have the shooters to do it, but instead of running plays to get Marco, patty, green or bonner threes they have Cory dribbling late into the shot clock with Baynes and Ayres shooting jumpers. I'm not saying they were going to win, but their job should be to try to keep Okcs starters out there as long as possible.
Pop injects himself into the games these days more than he should. He's too in-situ involved in the game, ordering intentional fouls, calling every play down the floor and I think some of that causes the team to run to sluggish as they try to adjust to what Pop wants instead of playing the game.
I mean, it's not like this OKC team didn't choke a 20pt lead multiple times before these playoffs, even at home...
I don't understand why they didn't shoot 3s every possession when they were down 14.
I was pretty pissed about it. I don't have a problem with him pulling the big 3 but with such a deep bench he could have put in a line up that still had at least a slight chance to make something happen. Going with Joseph, Baynes, Bonner, Ayres on the floor at the same time it's like he wanted to make sure there was abo ely no possibility of making a comeback.
I do think some of it is pop sending a message. If you come out lackluster & put yourself in that situation he will make you regret it. They all seemed pretty pissed after the game tbh.
after that golden state game, and seeing how okc has coughed up leads late, i don't agree with it. what are you saving yourself for? the playoffs?
If you think about all the times Pop has pulled the plug, ~3% of the time a miracle happens. If Pop did it 30 times, we were bound to win a game in miracle fashion
I think Pop knows they can beat OKC & feels he has the luxury of resting players on top of sending a message. I think if he really feared OKC he would have chased the game a little more.
Playoffs is not the time to concede games especially seeing what happened late in games in rd 2 but Pop has made this part of the MO. Let's hope the strategy pays off
I think there is some of this, and also the part of being cautious about injuries. But never been a fan, not in the WCFs...
Brooks left Ibaka out there when the game was already over. Durbeta had to tell him to take him out.
Which coach would you rather have?
It was clear who the powers that be had picked to win the game after the erased Patty 3, why bother.
More than that I thought Pop sitting out the big 3 to start the fourth was a big mistake. He did the same thing in the Finals in game 6 last year. Both times we basically lost the game during that stretch.
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