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Pop was a mental midget against Spo
Disagree. Pop came within a whisker of beating a team with a 66-16 record and superior talent.
Pop coached circles around Philibeaner. Spoelstra came a rebound away from getting beaten by Danny ing Green with Parker on a bum hamstring.
...again just like 2012
1. Be smart with the ball
2. Take the ball to the hole
3. Box out on rebounds
4. Crash the boards, don't start running back to stop a fast break
Don't know how to embed tweets but here are some from today:
Dan McCarney @danmccarneysaen 1h
Popovich said he cited Joseph at film session today at the approach he's looking for: "Everybody has to take the at ude of Cory Joseph..."
"...kind of a take-no-prisoners, bunker mentality. He was fantastic, and he did that better than anybody on our team.”
Popovich's message was the same as last night: More than any tactical tweaks, Spurs mainly have to match OKC's intensity and desperation.
Pop on possible lineup changes: "We’re considering a couple of tweaks, just in the game plan. I don’t know exactly where that will be...."
"...but we saw some things that might warrant a little tweak here and there."
Scott Brook's massive adjustment was going Mister Miagi on Ibaka's calf.
Who's Mills suppose to guard? He's gary neal in 4 inch high heals. Maybe the NBA's best bench in the history of the NBA has to show up on both ends of the floor. If the Starting unit struggles, insert Ginobili for green. That's all you can do.
Kinda hilarious that Pop's been dubbed by some members of the media as the "greatest coach of all-time" when he's been outcoached by:
Phil(numerous times)
Brooks(2012, this year)
Spo(last year)
Avery Johnson(2006)
Rick Carlisle(this year)
One of the keys to winning is to NOT PANIC. It seemed the Spurs got taken out of their offense when the Thunder would send 2 guys at one of our ball handlers. It froze our guys which led to over dribbling or a stupid pass that turned into a turnover. If the Spurs just kept calm and protected the ball they would fine the open man. Take a deep breath, be calm damn it!
Dont forget him getting swept by Alvin Gentry and the Suns. One of the pinnacle moments in his overrated career.
its not yet over.. though Spurs are heads down already
The thing I find odd is we played the perfect team to prepare for the Thunder. The Trailblazers have the same length as the Thunder, so why were we able to draw their bigs out of the paint but we can't do that against the Thunder?
Go strong if u have to throw a pump fake this weak layup go strong or go home
Just remember Coach of the Year is a regular season award.
Would like to hear other opinions on this possible adjustment. In game 4, westbrook and Durant scored 71 between them and no other thunder player cracked double digits. I think you have to focus on westbrook more than Durant. Make him carry the thunder by himself. with reggie Jackson hobbed, move parker on him. put leonard on westbrook and green on Durant. Durant just makes difficult shots even with good defense by leonard. I just think the bigger threat is westbrook and he needs to be contained so they aren't scoring so many points between the two of them. make Durant earn that mvp trophy.
Pop getting outcoached. What else is new?
Is throwing a zone at Westbrook actually rocket science? If Carlyle were our coach, he'd do that in a heartbeat, and he'd win by doing so. But of course, Pop will stick to his guns, and we'll blow another championship opportunity. Same old story.
Yeah there is no defense for Parker on WB. He has to be back on Jackson (who is hopefully hobbled) Green has actually dominated WB (since the WCF, during the regular season meetings WB has shot 39% for 22 points on 20 shots) He has the "Sef affect" on WB.Brooks' switch has led to stupidity from Pop, too..
Westbrook has been atrocious against Danny Green in this series, shooting less than 35% against him, but after Brooks finally benched Sefolosha(obvious move, he's no longer a rotation-caliber player) in favor of Jeremy Lamb's hideous, ostrich-looking ass, Pop decides to switch Parker and Green's assignments..
This results in Parker getting torched by Westbrook all night, as expected, tbh..
Why not have Parker guard Lamb, instead?..is Tony guarding Lamb really scarier than Tony guarding one of the 10 best players in the league and wearing himself out?
I don't expect Brooks to get any credit(since he's one of the worst coaches in the league, tbh), and I also don't expect Pop to receive any blame from non-Spurs fans or media..
I'd actually like to see some Joseph on 'Brook as well. Maybe a Mills-Joseph-Manu-Green/Leonard-Diaw lineup for a small stretch to see how effective it can be.
Its a bold move but having Diaw go at Adams in the post (who is a foul machine) and force him away from the basket when sets screens and spots up from 3.
Its big enough to match-up any of OKC's small ball units and has enough boarding (Joseph, Manu Green/Leonard all are solid rebounders for their positions)
Super easy tbh..
- Give Cory a shot and bench Beli
- Play Danny more and less to no Patty
- More Diaw with Duncan to allow a leonard drive and more diaw post ups on ibaka
- PnR with Tiago and Manu of the bench..
But Don't expect pop to make any of these adjustmens he's stubborn...
Duncan and Parker will probably try too hard next game thus killing the team's rhythm in the process.
Ibaka coming back wasn't an adjustment
Great adjustments from Pop tonight, finally..
- Stretch 4, not only forcing Ibaka to cover more ground, but it also allowed Duncan and Leonard to have much more room to operate
- Mills with only 5 minutes in the 1st half, Belinelli with 0..Belinelli didn't check in the game until the Spurs were up by 17 towards the end of the 3rd
- Leonard and Green mixing coverage against Durant and Westbrook
- Ginobili and Splitter working the pick&roll off the bench
- Diaw becoming a focal point for a large volume of plays, the biggest mismatch the Spurs can exploit
Pop needs to put Daye instead of Ayres in the eligible roster for game 6 as a Bonner insurence, imho.
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