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This. ESPN and TNT are clearly fishing for Pop's reaction and have been doing so for years. So much so, that it almost seems scripted now.
Holy those are some horrible questions."Shakes head"
This. ESPN and TNT are clearly fishing for Pop's reaction and have been doing so for years. So much so, that it almost seems scripted now.
This. Ask him about wine even.
Nope.
He's great.
He's methodical in what questions he won't answer and what questions he really turns the negative conditioning on about. He says they're all stupid questions but he treats questions about strategy and tactics as if you had asked him if you could his mother. OTOH, he will be happy to heap praise on an opponent if you ask intelligently.
Overall I think youre right in the sense that he doesn't really try and use the press like Carlisle and Jackson but to say he just doesn't care at all seems incorrect.
He should just give generic answers from time to time.. alternate the acts.
I think Pop tries a little too hard to be mean to the media and it makes him look worse. ESPN/TNT pay teams to gain access for interviews to coaches and players before, during and after games. After all these years, isn't Pop tired of this I'm mad at the media "act?" It's not David Aldridge's fault that he is bothering Pop in the middle of the game, it's his job. I was laughing when Israel Gutierrez took it so personal and said he didn't want to talk about his encounters with Pop on ESPN NBA lockdown before. He is always uncomfortable. Good for him because Izzy is an a-hole himself.
But other reporters, like Heather Cox and Kristen Ledlow don't look intimidated by Pop. Look what happened to Doris Burke in the finals, she cried after Pop said "turnovers" three times. All I know is that I would be scared to interview Pop.
Kristen Ledlow what's her story ? Is she a former athlete ?
I agree that some of his interviews are cringe worthy, but what's the alternative?
Smile and give generic answers just to make some idiot feel better on camera when all he had to do was prepare for the job he is being paid to perform?
Dumb down himself, the game and his job so that lazy "fans" on their couches are not shocked or even offended by the truth?
He's not here to entertain the masses he's here to train the best team in professional sport today - and that should be easy enough to understand.
It's bad enough that Sterling recently again said that the NBA is in the entertainment business when explaining that they are looking to penalize the hack a Shaq tactic. What's next? Everybody get a medal for participating?
Can you remove Kool's thread starting privileges before you head out? I know downstairs is a hole regardless, but it would at least polish the turd some.
Thanks.
you kids don't get it.
Pop is trying to make a point. He does not want to discuss strategy to the entire nation while in game. he even hardly discusses strategy between games.
He is in a clear feud with the league on this issue.
Pop's reaction to the New Hampshire election results was not curt or dismissive, imo. He looked to me like he was trying very hard not to say something clearly one-sided. So upon hearing that the two most extreme candidates from each side had won the primary, you could just see his wheels turning. I think saying nothing then was absolutely the right thing to do. And the reporter obviously thought so too.
These reporters need to learn how to get on Pop's good side -- just have a serious illness.
On Aldridge and West having issues playing together...
Im sure he will go into great detail about how their mothers hate each other.
Seriously stupid question unless you have a coach ready to use the press against hisown players, we all know this is Pop's MO.
Then they have to make better effort.
WTF??? these guys are trying to make a living...you can be a reticent once in a while but not go overboard with it, tbh...
IN fact I would like to see the last time Pop used any single player on any team as a subject of a negative narrative. The guy from Dallas that talked smack about him, what did he do?
I agree with him on that. I think it's dumb to just give away your strategy every time a reporter asks.
But also he needs to mix it up and throw them a bone from time to time, imo.
I think we all know BB is a game and by definition entertainment, it's just the thing about how to interpret it and how far to take the entertainment.
I'd like to know how many people actually change the channel just because a player is hacked.
I think BB is entertaining because of the exciting nature of the game and the unique skills it features, leading to a worthy compe ion between great athletes.
That develops an appreciation in the fans related to what's considered the purity of the game.
Making FTs is one of those skills. Changing the rules to hide that is not what many fans want because they rather see these players show they can execute making FTs and they appreciate strategy even if it slows down the game.
Which is why I never got bored of the '00 Spurs.
Regarding POP, I think it's great that he's sarcastic and doesn't give up strategy (I love SVG too). I like their at ude because it's entertaining. But it wouldn't hurt if he's polite from time to time.
Pop doesn't throw bones. Never has never will.
add Twitter button pls
BB is entertainment now? so Olympic Basketball is entertainment yet Olympic track and field are not?
makes absolutely no sense.
Go tell the olympic teams that what they do is for entertainment.
then tell me, how is Olympic basketball different from NBA basketball?? one is entertainment and the other is not?
makes absolutely no sense when people say "its entertainment"
dumb dumb dumb
I say good for Pop. Each year these networks get more and more intrusive. Cameras in the dugout, interviewing coaches during a game, interviewing coaches at halftime. Its bull crap
Pop has long shown that when he's asked good questions about things that he wants to talk about (specifically, not himself and not about broader strategies that he understandably doesn't want to reveal), he'll answer them in detail and offer great insights.
When he's asked inane questions, he offers the terse responses.
Who can blame him for that? The alternative is to guess what the media is trying to ask (or to volunteer something); doing that -- rather than simply answering the questions as they're posed -- creates a substantially greater chance of a regrettable misstatement of the sort that gets coaches/players into trouble. While I think Pop is too smart for that to happen to him, his measured responses to dumb questions are indicative of his wisdom in dealing with the media.
I think a lot of the media (not all, but at least some) are inclined to believe that their interviewees should lead them to the story and not the other way around -- they seem to think that even if they ask garbage questions, the obligation is on the interviewee to come up with an answer that becomes the focal point of the story and makes the rest of the writer's job easy. Pop (and Duncan, too) don't really seem to be willing to do that, but have long histories of elaborating where they're asked truly insightful questions. When reporters actually do their jobs by asking meaningful questions, Pop gives them the meat of the story.
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