NBA: So much overcoaching this post-season IMO.

[Clipper Nation]

I think there's a concerted effort by franchises to get certain rules established or changed. They have to make it painful to make that happen. That's so they can have a big man game again instead of this Eurotrash 3pt shootout that's going on now. You cannot have a big man game if your big man gets abused at the FT line.

Why else would so many coaches suddenly be employing that strategy when it obviously doesn't work? When has it led to a win? If anything, it's cost teams games, because it stops the game both ways and coaches typically do it when the other team has momentum. Pop is smarter though, he did it when his team had momentum. That's called being a visionary.

I'm convinced that bad coaches spam the hack-a-Shaq strategy because they've seen Pop do it and therefore think they look smarter and more strategic by doing it themselves. It's nothing new, Mark Jackass used to do it all the time as well. Dwane Casey does it as well.

I'd rather see DJ learn to make free throws than see the rule get changed, but I'm just saying - you'd think if ty coaches were going to rip off Pop, they'd rip off some of his plays, not this

[Clipper Nation]

I said Leonard was going to be a problem and I was right on the money. It was CN who claimed he was going to be great. Not me. Him.

Me.

[DMC]

I'm convinced that bad coaches spam the hack-a-Shaq strategy because they've seen Pop do it and therefore think they look smarter and more strategic by doing it themselves. It's nothing new, Mark Jackass used to do it all the time as well. Dwane Casey does it as well.

I'd rather see DJ learn to make free throws than see the rule get changed, but I'm just saying - you'd think if ty coaches were going to rip off Pop, they'd rip off some of his plays, not this

You can't unilaterally rip off plays. You'd have to get the team to actually learn them. That's a problem with teams who's IQ is about the same as Tony's FG%. American ballers who come up through AAU are likely never going to learn sophisticated offense and defensive strategies. It's just setting picks, rolling and isolation, then get back on defense and rebound. Almost every team in the league plays a 2 man game with that 3rd option being in the corner if the help defense cuts off the roller. The step up is that the corner guy hits the wing. Spurs run that as well, but with them the wing puts it back into the paint for an easy lay up whereas other teams just shoot the 3. Most never hit the corner guy because they guy is watching the ball, not moving at all. So you cannot steal that stuff if your team doesn't think a few moves ahead. It's like trying to get a left fielder to play shortstop and expecting Ozzie Smith or Trammel.

What they can control (coaches that is) is the hack itself. Even then it's often the wrong guy getting the foul and wasting more time than required.

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Me.

Si'!

[Ignignokt]

I said Leonard was going to be a problem and I was right on the money. It was CN who claimed he was going to be great. Not me. Him.

And what happened to you in California had a mountain range feeling to it.

ha, ha.

Your troll job is cute.

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Your troll job is cute.

It was fun, but, DMC couldn't leave it alone and he found the goods.

[Franklin]

I get it that intentional fouls are effective, they do it in late game situations to avoid allowing the 3, even if it's not away from the ball. What I don't get though is why a coach would do it during a momentum swing in your favor when up tempo is your ally. Also, in the Shaq days where most decent teams played inside out, you weren't reliant on the tempo as much to score at the other end. Now you are, so you're throwing out the baby with the bathwater. Teams today are too reliant on emotional surge instead of solid post play and kick outs.

But Pop is not a believer of emotional surge, unfortunately. It's his genius reasoning and composure that brought the team five rings, it may work out passively in given contexts but you can't throw the blame on Pop. The Spurs are just not a team reliant on emotion or whatsoever, and it's not rare to see a Spur being subbed out when he had just hit several shots in a row, just gets him out before he cools down - which I think is Pop's genius logic. The Spurs just acted as the team they were supposed to be imho, regardless of the result.

Another example, I remember last summer a lot of friends here (perhaps also including you) advised me to ask her out, but I remained inactive and finally I ran out her patience. But I don't regret, it may turn out to be a blessing in disguise. She may be just as good as I thought, or maybe even better, or the opposite, but it ain't having nothing to do with me anymore. In high school our teachers told us not to take on any relationship as a student, which I totally concurred on, and I just sticked to my faith. Without the faith I'd have been still working at a deadend ty job and would've probably been buried in a load of life troubles.

The Spurs function like a machine and even though most of teams today are reliant on emotional surge, the Spurs have to make themselves an exception, imho.

[DMC]

But Pop is not a believer of emotional surge, unfortunately. It's his genius reasoning and composure that brought the team five rings, it may work out passively in given contexts but you can't throw the blame on Pop. The Spurs are just not a team reliant on emotion or whatsoever, and it's not rare to see a Spur being subbed out when he had just hit several shots in a row, just gets him out before he cools down - which I think is Pop's genius logic. The Spurs just acted as the team they were supposed to be imho, regardless of the result.

Another example, I remember last summer a lot of friends here (perhaps also including you) advised me to ask her out, but I remained inactive and finally I ran out her patience. But I don't regret, it may turn out to be a blessing in disguise. She may be just as good as I thought, or maybe even better, or the opposite, but it ain't having nothing to do with me anymore. In high school our teachers told us not to take on any relationship as a student, which I totally concurred on, and I just sticked to my faith. Without the faith I'd have been still working at a deadend ty job and would've probably been buried in a load of life troubles.

The Spurs function like a machine and even though most of teams today are reliant on emotional surge, the Spurs have to make themselves an exception, imho.

That worked well when the big 3 were running the show, but now the Spurs are mostly NOT the big 3. Players like Danny Green and Marco are surge players, as is Patty Mills. If you stiffle that, you're saying you can go to the big 3 for production and it was apparent by then they couldn't.

[UZER]

Pop was the Joey Crawford of coaches against the clippers. He thought people were there to watch him.

[HI-FI]

Pop was the Joey Crawford of coaches against the clippers. He thought people were there to watch him.

i wonder if the Spurs just didn't have enough gas, especially after Tiago's injury flaring up, so maybe he put in Parker to do his thing and help the Spurs get a higher draft spot. that or Pop's an asshole.

[Franklin]

That worked well when the big 3 were running the show, but now the Spurs are mostly NOT the big 3. Players like Danny Green and Marco are surge players, as is Patty Mills. If you stiffle that, you're saying you can go to the big 3 for production and it was apparent by then they couldn't.

We don't have big 3 for a long while now imho, Manu has been a role player for years and the same goes for TOSB Duncan as well. They can still put out solid performances once in a while but more often than not we need supporting roles to stand up and score, which they miserably failed to do this year. Therefore, I think the success of the Spurs has always been dependent upon the contributions of their role players, and they only perform well in a well-functioned system that Pop has meticulously designed for them. If you let them out playing emotional ball and setting up the game themselves, they'd most likely get blown out. Spurs belong in the bottom range in terms of talent level, admit it or not. In that sense, it's always been Pop who orchestrates the show no matter which player or players run it, imho.

[N0 LyF3 ScRuB]

Didn't you say you haven't watched the playoffs Apa??

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Pop was the Joey Crawford of coaches against the clippers. He thought people were there to watch him.

Ooze

[Caltex2]

Sad that the three main culprits are also the top 3 coaches in the league...

Poop, bud, Kerr have all made terrible decisions when they could have made the obvious call...

It's like Pete Carroll going away from an obvious play with three downs left.

Sad..

I wish Kevin McHale would over-coach. It might mean the Rockets would be up 3-1 as opposed to down 3-1. The Rockets entered this series with six days of rest vs. the Clippers 45 hours and long plane ride of rest? And they're down by a dominating 3-1 deficit?

At least Pop, Bud and Kerr are actually trying to coach. Meanwhile, McFail gave up five minutes into the game and started hacking, because he had no adjustments ready at all

Also, Philo is a got.

Yep. The Clippers are bad matchup but yep.

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I wish Kevin McHale would over-coach. It might mean the Rockets would be up 3-1 as opposed to down 3-1. The Rockets entered this series with six days of rest vs. the Clippers 45 hours and long plane ride of rest? And they're down by a dominating 3-1 deficit?



Yep. The Clippers are bad matchup but yep.

"matchup"---my ass. They skulled you out, punched you in the kisser and you ran away. What the did your people think was going to happen?

[unforeseen]

OP would not be able to coach a pre-season WNBA game if his life depended on it.
Yet he continues to post from his straw hut in a third world country.

[ducks]

Sad that the three main culprits are also the top 3 coaches in the league...

Poop, bud, Kerr have all made terrible decisions when they could have made the obvious call...

It's like Pete Carroll going away from an obvious play with three downs left.

Sad..

why do you not apply you know so much