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who could not even try to compete in the 2nd half for 2 WCF's games and...
a)not be at risk of being fired
b)and more importantly not cause an all out mutiny by the star players?
The nose knows
Pop's untouchable. All that power's gotten to his head. If they lose he's just going to blame the players for not showing up.
They didn't show up. WTF are you people wanting...for Pop to put on a uniform?
The starters sucked. Period. It's on them.
^ this
Miami would sweep this Spurs team the way they played in Games 3 and 4. Pathetic.
There is no accountability
I would have made the same subs utions. Those guys played with more passion and performed infinitely better. Cory Joseph might have worked himself into the back up role based on his play. The starters werent complaining and admitted they played like crap. What do you want?
I would have inserted at the very least Manu, after the 2/3 unit cut the lead. He played well enough in those two Okc games to get a shot of trying to bring the team back. I understand the starters (and most of the team) played like crap. However, this is the WCF and every game is important.
I agreed with Pop on this choice. No sense in wasting our precious minutes we have with Tim/Manu/Parker on a loss. Pop sent a good message I think and I hope the plane ride back to SA was a somber affair. They had no guts tonight, especially insulting after game 3's no-showing. At least CoJo and Diaw were great, though. We need Diaw to be offensively and defensively minded in this series to survive, he's perfect versus OKC.
No ref complaints can be the scapegoat of that beatdown. Horrible game, one of the worst I've ever seen watching the Spurs in my lifetime... such a crucial game and all of our starters played awful.
Pop accomplished two things:
1. He rested his key players for Game 5.
2. He saved their psyches from a longer, more humiliating beat down.
Point #2 never gets mentioned but I think it's out there.
Ultimately, however, it's futile.
The Spurs were ing down 27 and are old. Why would he not pull his players?
It was still the right call. Starters were completely worthless. Public humiliation time.
That's not what I asked. So forget about question a) what about question b) is there any other coach who could do that?Lebron, KD/Westchuck, Kobe, Griffin/Paul etc. would any of them accept being benched the 2nd half twice in a row and just say ah gee I trust my coach?
Spurs don't have any star players other than maybe Parker, and he deserved to be pulled. If he wants to whine about only getting 5 second half minutes he shouldn't have let the Thunder balloon the lead to 27 in his time on the floor.
I think Pop was just rolling with who got him there. He messed up by putting in Mills but Cory had 5 fouls (in how many minutes?)
pop don't care it's a deal with presti and the nba for money and interest. spurs in 7 with a hot story along with it. cant just have the final 4 be lackluster in the playoffs.
Putting it all on the line in Game 5.
The average IQ in this forum HAS to be below 80. JR Smith isn't this ignorant.
Is that Game 5, Russ?
Subbing your guys out in a blowout is a no-brainer, tbh, easy decision..
Pop's lack of adjustments and the fact that he continues to play Belinelli(even having him guard Kevin Durant) is the more egregious issue that the media will ignore..
I think history has shown that No matter what kind of rest they have it doesn't make them elite. Spurs had 3 days between game 2 and 3 and came out flat. Spurs had 5 minutes of Spurs basketball and then reverted back to ty ball movement and fear. There is no amount of coaching at this point that Pop can do to get his players to execute but at the same time there is no spurs game film that shows them the secret to beating OKC at full strength. It's going to take some kind of mental mind to get the Spurs to play with urgency and with effort.
This is what happens when you get complacent with legacy and living in the past. You know your team is screwed when your vets give up and quit and your coach doesn't demand anything out of them.
His decision to switch to Parker as the Westbrook defender was puzzling, too, as Westbrook was shooting just 37% from the field prior to game 4 and was horrible against Green..
It is called a losing mentality.
A) The players quit because they are coddled pampered pussies who cannot have a scratch before they have to rest for 3-4 weeks and they learned this from the paranoid pussy coach.
B) The coach quit because instead of trying to show that warriors fight til the end - he pussy-coached and taught them to have an at ude of "we don't have it tonight - we will try again thursday - why tire ourselves?"
C) The pussy fans side with this pussy losing mentality because the franchise already has 4 rings..."why not just be grateful....we are lucky to have this coach...there are other teams that wish they had one ring...who would you replace Pop with?....sniff sniff...whimper...whimper....you are stupid....blah-blah"
2nd place is for losers and pussies...
Pussies.
Spurs is a much much older team than Thunder, no other coach in the history of this league would be able to get the current GDP core 2-0 into the western conference finals and 28 seconds away from a le last year.
Think about what Hakeem/Shaq/Jordan were doing at age 38, they sure as weren't competing in the final rounds of playoffs.
Spurs fans are so incredibly spoiled. Only reason the team was/is a contender is because of Popovich's minute management of GDP. There is only so much you can do when Duncan is no longer capable of soloing Perkins/Adams of the world.
Anything GDP gives at this point is a gift, just enjoy the final moments of this core before this team sinks to the bottom half of the league for the next decade when Popovich retires.
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