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How the can this "genius" coach be losing to rookie college coach??
One instance was keeping Kawhi benched for what, 7 straight minutes in game 7 against the clippers because of one bad play.
Then there's the burial of splitter
The burial of George hill
The burial of Udrih for Van Exel while NVE was flaming wreckage
The burial of mahinmi
The burial of Nazr because he didn't know want to get a 24 sec violation at the end of game 6 against the Kings and put up a three that went in. Pop got so pissed off he refused to give him a real chance against Dallas.
They didn't get over themselves.
So the evidence of Pop ting the bed is:
Didn't play Boban
Didn't play Kawhi 44m
LET his player get old
Pop didn't get beat by a rookie coach. He got beat by two great offensive payers and some bruising big men. It's a great combo punch and we didn't have a way to beat it jus tlike we didn't beat the clipper's one great player and two great bigs. A simple offense is an effective offense if you wield it like hammer.
From the sounds of it what you guys want is De'Antoni. Overplays the starters, gets offensive movement.
I swear Rick Carlisle would ring with this roster.
Just helped? A play can change a whole game.
Sadly, he has been horrible in his late-game decisions the last three seasons.
So many people finally on board. Hopefully we can put the "CIA Pop" schtick to rest, he's just senile.
I see what you mean now. Hasn't he always been like this though. Genuine question since I am a relatively new Spurs fan. I thought he's always had the bad temper that's not senility or being done.
Nothing new here. All that stretched back for the past decade.
Yes that's what I thought. I don't see him being different than he's always been. There are always questionable things about him. I think the decline of the big 3 has been the most significant factor. In the past any of them, more likely TD by the look of how he was looking to draw fouls despite his lack of knees, that was amazing! would have gotten this win for us. He can no longer do that.
LMA and Kawhi have their work cut o it for them. kawhi is young and I believe he's still getting better. Contrary to others I though Pop made a concerted effort to get him the ball and get him involved. Plays broke down and ended up in shot clock violations or the ball returning to Tony with little time . I though LMA passed up shots too. It wasn't just one guy.. but it's also not on Pop entirely when guys don't rise to the occasion.
I hope Pop retires with Tim. He's killing the Spurs this series.
Honestly, i still can't believe this is going to happen to Pop...It doesn't look good on him at all to get outcoached by first-year college coach and his team bounced with HCA by a flawed Thunder squad whose stars are having an average series..Avery was Nellie understudy, Doc Rivers won a ship...Scottie Brooks had too much talent for us back then in 2012..but this one feels ridiculously self-inflicted..
Pretty simple. You get old and stuck in your ways while the rookie coach is pulling all the stops to win.
You might want to start looking for a new screen.
I just had a flashback to 2003, pretty much the last time Pop wasn't treated like a living legend by the media.
At the time he was being outcoached by Don Nelson and getting wrecked by a mavs team that didn't even have Dirk. Luckily for Pop, Parker was just beginning his long career of being garbage in deciding games and allegedly had food poisoning so severe that the Spurs were down massively and Parker's stomach forced Pop to play ... STEVE KERR! Saving Pop's ass with Stephen Jackson (who Pop had kept inactive in 2002 while Terry Porter was falling backwards on his ass like a dottering old man).
In the post-game presser, someone had the reasonable idea to ask Pop something like why wasn't hadn't he played Kerr the entire playoffs. And Pop did one of his most ish, petulant responses of his whole career, and just was a total defensive asshole. I don't remember his words, but he sure didn't like to be called out on obvious adjustments.
Of course Pop meekishly give Kerr lots of opportunities against the Nets, where he again was lucky to barely win against a terrible East team whose best player was heading into off season career changing microfeacture. They needed a huge comeback against a terrible team with Kenyon having one of the worst games ever, against a coach who history proved to be a clown, and with one of the greatest single game performances in history by Duncan to save Pop. And keeping with tradition, Parker was trash.
Donovan lucked the out, that his Kanter/Adams lineup, which rarely played in RS is working.
He actually used that frontline against the Spurs during the regular season & they wrecked Diaw/West during the season opener.
Because of resting. I saw that this was unusuall lineup for them.He actually used that frontline against the Spurs during the regular season & they wrecked Diaw/West during the season opener.
Let Vogel take it over if we can't get Spo, TBH.
Got love for Pop and he is a legend but he rides some things out too long when they are not working to hope it works and prove he knows best.... He needs to stop it.
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