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just disgusting he couldn't finnish what was shaping up a masterpiece playoff game..
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Getting beat by a college coach... Thanks for 2014, should have gone out there Pop...
just disgusting he couldn't finnish what was shaping up a masterpiece playoff game..
I agree with this he had to buy the main guys rest somehow. They aren't playing all 48 minutes and reaching the end with legs. If anything, yes it was a choke job by LMA, Kawhi and Tony, and I am sad to point that out as I have mad respect for all of them, but shot clock violations and overall lack of aggression as guys were in position to close that out and didn't.blaming pop is misplaced. we played west too much? who is he play instead? boban?
if LMA doesn't shoot 6/20 nobody is complaining
primary criticism for him if anything was not actively calling plays for leonard to get the ball late. i cant blame him for rotations, he has to work with what he has.
I think the bench needs an overhaul. To me, Manu is retiring. D west is a bench PF not a center and Diaw has coasted himself out of the team all season. Incredibly skilled player but he's lazy and we can't afford that anymore.
I gave him the benefit of the doubt in 2010-2013 because those teams were outmatched in the talent department, but it is clear he's been gradually losing it, especially in the playoffs..
Thunderfan can safely claim you wouldn't sniff the Finals if Westbrook/Ibaka don't hurt their knees in 2013/2014..
Lazy was what fat head did when he didn't go for a rebound that landed 2 feet in front of him.
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On this one I agree with you. After that up in game 2, after the Danny steal it would have been a good idea to call a TO.we finished the game rushing shots and with 2 timeouts left... how about calling a timeout and setting up a play?
Tom Rivers
LeBron
Scotty Brooks
Hollins
D'ago
Little General
...and now some college coach.
List of people outcoaching craterface in the postseason is starting to get embarrassing
David West, Boris Diaw, Kyle Anderson, Manu Ginobili, Patty Mills
I'd love to see how bad that lineup was throughout the whole series. Pathetic.
So is he going to stick to that bench lineup now that the season is on the line and the next game could be next October/November?
Will Kawhi and LMA log 44+ mins?
Honestly was speechless when he took Duncan out of the game. Guy was hustling and making things happen.
No series lead is safe when Pop's coaching the team.
As soon as he took duncan out, Adams got a wide open dunk on Green.
so he doesn't deserve any blame? Boban isn't the answer but you don't even play him after what you saw from D-West?
-Fathead still getting minutes
-Diaw/West still getting minutes against their bigs
-Not even trying KMart when the offense struggles and OKC has plenty of guys you can him on ....
-Cutting runs short by overresting
I don't blame tonight's loss on Pop but to say he's coached anything short of a poor series would be as homerish as it gets tbh....
Spurs have gone 1-2 in the last 3 games of the series while holding a +10 lead in second half because of his ty ass lineups..In the one win (G3), we ended up trailing by 4 at one point in the fourth..
With the exception of Manu, that's a garbage-time lineup...logging crucial minutes in a pivotal playoff game.
Love to see Pop get called out by somebody in the local media for this.
Unfortunately, he doesn't have the "fire" anymore, tbh..human nature, can't blame him, he's the best coach of all-time..
Of course non-Spurs fans will mock us for saying this, despite them only watching Spurs playoff games
Can't believe RC Buford won Exec of the year
Pop's is coaching scared. Coaching to not lose instead of coaching to win.
Yup, it took losing an NBA Finals to wake up the beast, and we rode it to #5... unfortunately, I don't think that's a repeatable event until he retires...Unfortunately, he doesn't have the "fire" anymore, tbh..human nature, can't blame him, he's the best coach of all-time..
Of course non-Spurs fans will mock us for saying this, despite them only watching Spurs playoff games
Can't believe RC Buford won Exec of the year
Pop is probably the most overrated coach in American sports history. Great regular season coach for keeping guys motivated and rested, but he's completely finished. Whenever the spurs have lost a playoff series in the Duncan era, more often than not it was because of terrible decisions by Pop and not a talent deficit.
The team will be better off if he retired. Maybe the next coach would be terrible like Rambis. But the Spurs can no longer overcome a coach who holds grudges against players who should be on the court while insisting on going down with the ship with washed up vets who can't cut it or never-were guys like Bonner
For real. He should get both awards revoked for handing that contract extension.Unfortunately, he doesn't have the "fire" anymore, tbh..human nature, can't blame him, he's the best coach of all-time..
Of course non-Spurs fans will mock us for saying this, despite them only watching Spurs playoff games
Can't believe RC Buford won Exec of the year
He is going to be a less egregious version of Nellie when he coached the Warriors post-2007..Unfortunately, he doesn't have the "fire" anymore, tbh..human nature, can't blame him, he's the best coach of all-time..
Of course non-Spurs fans will mock us for saying this, despite them only watching Spurs playoff games
Can't believe RC Buford won Exec of the year
I know it's not popular here but IMO, since you are asking, one of the biggest criticism for the Thunder used to be their stars were overplayed, the bench gave them nothing and they had no energy to make sound decisions, or legs for jumpshots to close out games. Last game Pop went away from Timmy and he adjusted by playing Timmy. The bench surrendered leads. Kyle was a part of it but not the only culprit, the veterans there needed to do more. I could see Kyle getting finally benched to the delight of some but that will not make a lick of difference.
I would have given Boban a run earlier in the series (not the last game) not bc he's some savior, but he's an inside presence that can score or draw fouls and tire their bigs and the bench lacks that. I would rather see Simmons than Kmart personally but at this point I dont think Pop throws a wrench out there. The only game Kmart played this series (blowout game 1, he chucked to the tune of 1/7 and he can't guard Durant who plays with their bench or even Dion Waiters).
This series now belongs to the big 3, Kawhi and LMA, they got to the 4th with a small lead and energy to close it out. They didn't. Yes a timeout to call a play here or there would have helped. I also thought players failed to execute what was called down the stretch with the ball ending in Tony's hAnds with the shot clock winding down and no time to do anything but force up a shot. All of that is on the players failing to execute.
you need to provide alternatives. no west, no boban, no diaw, no bonner. who the is supposed to play. we dont have baynes or splitter. he can only play who he has
-Fathead still getting minutes
-Diaw/West still getting minutes against their bigs
-Not even trying KMart when the offense struggles and OKC has plenty of guys you can him on ....
-Cutting runs short by overresting
I don't blame tonight's loss on Pop but to say he's coached anything short of a poor series would be as homerish as it gets tbh....
west played less than 15 minutes and duncan played about 30 which is all he can give at this point
there's more than enough coaches past and current who could have ridden Tim to at least 5 rings, most likely more. who knows say spurs don't go on that run in the '99 season as early as they did and craterface gets canned as he was going to, Spurs bring in a coach who properly takes advantage of the Shaq-Kobe split and goes on to threepeat at the very least...
Last edited by SuperCam; 05-10-2016 at 11:31 PM.
What are you talking about there? I am curious.
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