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This team wins tonight, and probably would have beaten the Clips last year, with Rick Carlisle sitting first chair.
I think Pops mind is down the road a bit. Golden state is going to be very very difficult and I don't think he wants to get to the Western Conference Finals and look like . He wants his guys healthy when they get there and I think he believes they can beat the Thunder. I hope he's right.It's mind boggling how much he babies Leonard and Aldridge. Literally a 4 day break between Games 2 and 3 and he's managing minutes?
You know damn well Pop doesn't play anyone after midway through the third quarter if they're down 40 points like OKC was.
This team wins tonight, and probably would have beaten the Clips last year, with Rick Carlisle sitting first chair.
I would like to see Mr. Popovich shave his beard.
Spurs had all the momentum heading into the 4th and Pop trots out a Fathead/West/Diaw lineup???.....smh
Spot on. 100% agree with all of this. I HATED that lineup to start the 4th. Kanter/Adams and we counter with Diaw/West? Like... What?What the happened in the 4th?
1. That lineup for the first few minutes of the 4th when the Spurs had finally cut the lead down to 1
2. They can't stop Aldridge, nor are they doubling him, yet the Spurs didn't run the ball through him until the end of the 4th
3. He stubbornly played Parker over Mills in last year's Clippers series when TP was at rock bottom and Patty was hot, but he let Patty stay on the floor for way too long in the 4th while he was killing the team with his poor shot selection and bricks
This really gets me... it's like he forgets not all his guys are 38+ years old...
I'm pretty ticked about it too, that is one of the biggest reasons why Spurs lost game 6 against the Heat. I'm just saying that when it works, its pretty smart the differential shouldn't change that much and you get rest for all your best players. Unfortunately, when it doesn't work, you lose all the momentum your team had in a crucial playoff game or a 10 point lead in game 6 of a close-out game in the Finals dwindles to 4 in the first 2 minutes of the 4th quarter.
Spurs had all the momentum heading into the 4th and Pop trots out a Fathead/West/Diaw lineup???.....smh
Pop was atrocious, Becky would have coached this team better.
Been calling it for two seasons now: Pop has regressed as a coach.
The only real problem I had with the lineup was start of the 4th with Diaw and West out there with Adams and Kanter. Only real lineup issue I had.
Has mailed it in since 2014, tbh...
And it's not arguable.
That was mindboggling. I have no idea what he was thinkingand then he even doubled down on the ridiculousness and subbed out Manu for Kyle Andersoning unbelievable.
You have 28 time outs during a game(7 time outs per team per half) about 6 tv time outs, and free throws which take about a minute for every 2. There is no excuse for anyone to be tired during an nba game.
Amid all our struggles and health woes, he cost us the Clipper series with his momentum-killing hacks of Deandre in Game 6 not to mention going down with Parker..If we lose this series, we'll look at another overthink backfiring with his overprotection of Kawhi and his 2 fouls late in 1st half and then the resting both KL/LMA early in the fourth..
You can tell pop had an off night when he put Kyle Anderson on kd at the end of the first half. Leonard was on the bench for some reason.
Welp, at least he didn't go to the Hack-a-anyone. That was unnecessary last year against Clipps.
Getting outcoached by Tom Rivers and Scotty Donovan in b2b playoffs would be downright embarassing tbh
That ty lineup to start the fourth reminded me of the ty lineup to the start the fourth of Game 6 back in 2013.
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The game was lost in the 2nd quarter when he kept Kawhi on the bench while the Spurs perimeter D did its best impression of a matador show. The offense was clicking in that second quarter and we were poised to get some separation, but OKC basically ran a layup drill.
10 pt lead gone in a few minutes.
It all started when he pulled Kawhi after a fluke defensive breakdown in the first and subbed in Kyle over him. I could not believe my eyes seeing him downgrading his own team like that but then again he did something similar against the Clippers last season which arguably really cost us.
That is something incomprehensibly bad. It might even have contributed to Kawhi struggling to find rhythm this game, who knows, and yeah then the sabotage lineup after we've made a run, again taking out Kawhi.
In periods where Kawhi was out OKC had an easy basket feast and there is simply no reason those minutest totally wasted that Kyle played shouldn't have gone to Kawhi who played more than 7 minutes less than LMA.
Eh, yes, Kawhi was horrible down the stretch, Tim was painfully bad on offense, all game, Mills was terrible, we saw a blown call, etc..however, I maintain that the lineup to start the 4th was the biggest reason for the loss IMO..
The Spurs had the "momentum" and had cut it down to 1, OKC was deflated, yet Pop goes with a Mills-Green-Anderson-Diaw-West lineup in a round 2 playoff game
Pop ed up tonight, and I hope someone in the media has the balls for once to call him out for it. Get it together old man.
I couldn't believe it. I think Adams or KD was at the line and I heard the subs ution whistle and I figured Leonard or LMA was checking back in, but there was Fathead with his shorts wrapped around his chest entering the game for ManuEh, yes, Kawhi was horrible down the stretch, Tim was painfully bad on offense, all game, Mills was terrible, we saw a blown call, etc..however, I maintain that the lineup to start the 4th was the biggest reason for the loss IMO..
The Spurs had the "momentum" and had cut it down to 1, OKC was deflated, yet Pop goes with a Mills-Green-Anderson-Diaw-West lineup in a round 2 playoff game
Not defending him bc he didn't have a good game at all, but Anderson played only about a minute in the 4th. He was in a short leash and Pop pulled him quickly.
Why Pop didn't immediately go to Kawhi when it was time for Manu to come out of the game I don't know. It was either Kawhi is banged up and Pop hoped not to overplayed him, but he had to anyways (Tony has played on bad hamstrings b4, so it's not out of the question that Kawhi got injured on that nasty fall in the first game, and is not 100%), or yea... take a wild guess bc I don't know.
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