Can anybody name a series.....

[Raven]

Duncan, Diaw, Parker, Manu, and Kawhi were a combined -32 for game 7. This was the big lineup that won the le last year. Not sure how coaching makes up for that. It's pretty sensible to keep hoping that they eventually decide to play the way they did the last month of the season.

The Spurs shot 68 percent from the free-throw line in this series. Nobody on the team shot that badly in the entire regular season. If they just hit their free throws, they probably win the series in six games.

The pace is determined by the players and by the playoffs. Much of the Spurs' fast break comes from steals. Steals didn't happen. Part of that is because playoff teams don't cough up the ball as much. Let's not pretend that Pop suddenly commanded the players to slow down.

The Spurs weren't forcing long jumpers unless the shot clock was running down. The problem with their offense was people standing around. I saw Pop standing on the sidelines screaming profanities at his players trying to get them to move the ball around. The offense looked good for short bursts, but then they'd start stagnating again and the quality of their shots would drop.

Let's dispel the "Danny Green defends Paul" myth, please. Paul had a ty game 3. The fact that he didn't have any more ty games means what the Spurs did in that game had nothing to do with it.

Unless I'm mistaken, Danny Green lost minutes because he suddenly forgot how to ing shoot. There's no amount of defense that makes up for that. You could make a case that putting Joseph in for Green might have worked, but Joseph isn't much more than a placeholder on offense, and we all know it.

Pop hacks bad free throw shooters, and does so because the percentages dictate that it will benefit you in the long run. In order for there to be a long run, you have to keep doing it. I don't agree with it, but we all know he's going to do it. He always has. His name is Gregg, nice to meet you.

Manu looked pretty ty at times in this series, as did many of the shooters. Beli came in and was aggressive offensively. I'm unsure how people making a case for Patty to get more minutes simultaneously slam Beli getting minutes.


Honest to god, anyone who questions Pop's coaching after this series must not have been around for 2011, much less 2006. This year's version of Pop almost completely let the outcome be decided by his best players. I wish Patty could have gotten some more burn, but that's about it. This is probably the least Pop has interfered in recent memory.

yeah i don't agree with anything you just said. Of course the coach decides the pace and he is to blame for making bad defensive matchups therefore not getting steals. beli was not agressive at all, he was in one game where he took awful shot after awful shot but that's not being agressive, that's just being re ed, he did not drive, he took multiple minutes off, was nowhere on D et cetera.. The hacking is good, but you use it when you cannot defend a certain player and the flow of the game needs to be broken. pop did it all wrong.

[Raven]

except Beli didn't play vs turko dip

manu did btw and was awful

of course

[Mugen]

I 100% agree that Pop took a hands off approach this series.

As I said, he made zero adjustments and looked disinterested the entire run......

[baseline bum]

I'm going to say 2012 WCF because he played Bonner and Blair together in the third in a must win Game 5.

[Obstructed_View]

yeah i don't agree with anything you just said.

If you think the coach can make up for -32 by the top 5 players then there's not really anything else to talk about.

[FkLA]

Who even says that?

[Raven]

If you think the coach can make up for -32 by the top 5 players then there's not really anything else to talk about.

frankly, yes i think so. of course the premises are wrong..

[Floyd Pacquiao]

Thinking about it more this was his worst coached series ever. The adjustments were so simple yet he just couldn't see it.

[Mugen]

Just sucks cuz I don't think the Clippers played that great. that 06 Dallas team is better than the '15 Clippers and the '15 Spurs were significantly better than the '11 Spurs tbh.

[RD2191]

Just sucks cuz I don't think the Clippers played that great. that 06 Dallas team is better than the '15 Clippers and the '15 Spurs were significantly better than the '11 Spurs tbh.

That's the luxury of having go to guys in their prime, tbh. You can just go iso at the end of a close game and have a great shot at winning. Spurs have to rely on ball movement and mismatches.

[DMC]

where Pop coached worse?

I legit cannot think of one tbh.

Taking Tim out in game 6, then over playing Manu who was bleeding turnovers... yeah. Much more important than a 1st round game.

[daslicer]

Who even says that?

Like someone posters mentioned it seems like Pop's fire has gone away due to all the success he has had over the years. Pretty much the whole entire team kind of looked burned out from the long playoff runs of the last few years. I think that's why most of guys outside of Green didn't take the loss too hard. It just seems like everybody was just tired.

[Sean Cagney]

Parker was

Manu was

Splitter was

Duncan was eh soso

Kawhi was eh soso


The fact that pop made it to 7 games actually is a miracle imo

Which Duncan were u watching???

[james evans]

Maybe he needs to stop throing 7-10 games each season. That isn't cute once you get bounced from the first round.

[GrandeDavid]

where Pop coached worse?

I legit cannot think of one tbh.

I thought he was atrocious. Pretty stupid bneching Duncan end of Game 6 in the 2013 Finals, but this series takes the cake. Doing that absolutely IDIOTIC hack-a-Jordan and while up 10 was comical. I wish for ONCE Pop would say "this one's not on the players, its on ME."

[therealtruth]

I thought he was atrocious. Pretty stupid bneching Duncan end of Game 6 in the 2013 Finals, but this series takes the cake. Doing that absolutely IDIOTIC hack-a-Jordan and while up 10 was comical. I wish for ONCE Pop would say "this one's not on the players, its on ME."

The defense was horrible all series and then resorting to hack-a-jordan showed even less confidence in it. It isn't the coach's job to not interfere. It's his job to put the team in the best position to win. That means implementing strategies and a gameplan that the players believe in and works. Not having a good counter to the CP3 screens was absolutely dump.

[HI-FI]

Who even says that?

Wow. I wasn't off when I said he acts like a tenured and wino prof.

[ManuTastic]

Duncan, Diaw, Parker, Manu, and Kawhi were a combined -32 for game 7. This was the big lineup that won the le last year. Not sure how coaching makes up for that. It's pretty sensible to keep hoping that they eventually decide to play the way they did the last month of the season.

The Spurs shot 68 percent from the free-throw line in this series. Nobody on the team shot that badly in the entire regular season. If they just hit their free throws, they probably win the series in six games.

The pace is determined by the players and by the playoffs. Much of the Spurs' fast break comes from steals. Steals didn't happen. Part of that is because playoff teams don't cough up the ball as much. Let's not pretend that Pop suddenly commanded the players to slow down.

The Spurs weren't forcing long jumpers unless the shot clock was running down. The problem with their offense was people standing around. I saw Pop standing on the sidelines screaming profanities at his players trying to get them to move the ball around. The offense looked good for short bursts, but then they'd start stagnating again and the quality of their shots would drop.

Let's dispel the "Danny Green defends Paul" myth, please. Paul had a ty game 3. The fact that he didn't have any more ty games means what the Spurs did in that game had nothing to do with it.

Unless I'm mistaken, Danny Green lost minutes because he suddenly forgot how to ing shoot. There's no amount of defense that makes up for that. You could make a case that putting Joseph in for Green might have worked, but Joseph isn't much more than a placeholder on offense, and we all know it.

Pop hacks bad free throw shooters, and does so because the percentages dictate that it will benefit you in the long run. In order for there to be a long run, you have to keep doing it. I don't agree with it, but we all know he's going to do it. He always has. His name is Gregg, nice to meet you.

Manu looked pretty ty at times in this series, as did many of the shooters. Beli came in and was aggressive offensively. I'm unsure how people making a case for Patty to get more minutes simultaneously slam Beli getting minutes.


Honest to god, anyone who questions Pop's coaching after this series must not have been around for 2011, much less 2006. This year's version of Pop almost completely let the outcome be decided by his best players. I wish Patty could have gotten some more burn, but that's about it. This is probably the least Pop has interfered in recent memory.

True all this. This one wasn't on Pop. And Timmy was great, don't know wtf that one guy was talking about.

[EVAY]

That's the luxury of having go to guys in their prime, tbh. You can just go iso at the end of a close game and have a great shot at winning. Spurs have to rely on ball movement and mismatches.

This is a good observation.

[EVAY]

Pretty much the whole entire team kind of looked burned out from the long playoff runs of the last few years. It just seems like everybody was just tired.

This.

[100%duncan]

2006 mavs, 2012 okc, 2004 LA

[100%duncan]

Who even says that?

I think Pop is tired of coaching and the job overall tbh. He should just hang it up too if he's so uninterested

[therealtruth]

Maybe he needs to stop throing 7-10 games each season. That isn't cute once you get bounced from the first round.

Agree. Pop's got to coach every year like he did in '13-'14 with the same attention to detail and same intensity. If he doesn't have it how the heck does he expect the team to have it. He can't play the game for the players but he can try to motivate them like he did last year.

[K...]

Agree. Pop's got to coach every year like he did in '13-'14 with the same attention to detail and same intensity. If he doesn't have it how the heck does he expect the team to have it. He can't play the game for the players but he can try to motivate them like he did last year.

uh 80% of pop is still the best coach in the lg. I don't know what your thinking. Basketball is a players game.. No amount of coaching is going to make up for player missing shots, recovering from injury, or chis paul deciding his legacy was on the line and going into god mode.


'yall all so annoying

[Capt Bringdown]

If Pop deserves credit for keeping the troops motivated and focused last year, then he deserves criticism this year for the way we went out in the first round.
Can anyone claim that the Spurs were motivated and focused against the Clippers?
The lack of the adjustments for the high double screen, as others have mentioned, amounted to a love letter and big, sloppy kiss to CP3's career.
And the hack-a-Jordan move when we're up 10 in game 6 at home - who does that?
It was precisely at that point that I knew that the Spurs would not recover and that the series was over. And that was all on Pop, not his players.