another podcast calling out pop

[Prose]

http://www.sbnation.com/2016/5/13/11...rence-playoffs


is the first topic of discussion in the podcast, they also said they felt the best team didn't win, rather pop was again out coached and did not make any adustments.

[TheGoldStandard]

http://www.sbnation.com/2016/5/13/11...rence-playoffs


is the first topic of discussion in the podcast, they also said they felt the best team didn't win, rather pop was again out coached and did not make any adustments.

Meh, it's nice fodder for sports talk but it's irrelevant because nothing is going to change. It would literally take RC sitting pop down and saying, "what gives?" Pop doesn't seem very interested in coaching players up especially when adjustments need to be made. He's there for the ride and for the cash. Sure he has lost it periodically from time to time when things aren't going well but that's compe ion to someone who used to have fire.

I think everyone would take it better if he just came out and said, "You know I didn't want to waiver, I thought we would finally click and by the time I wanted to make an adjustment it was too late." instead we continually get snarky made pop dismiss any questioning of his coaching.

[Crazymaddopeyo]

Don't know how many adjustments needed to be made. Out of the games we lost only one was out of control and that was the last one, the others we should've of won but they played like they wanted it more. I can almost guarantee the same thing would've happened if adjustments were made.

[DMC]

The best team always wins. Coaching is part of the team. If you break the Spurs down to component level, they don't match up well on paper with OKC. It's just that OKC has historically under-performed. Adjustments don't make teams go after loose balls and hustle back in transition. Spurs didn't seem too interested in winning, and not too upset about losing.

[Prose]

i agree with all the posts, i guess the frustrating part is he seems to not want to adjust at all. I remember the years we won pop was known for his mid series adjustments.

[Sean Cagney]

The best team always wins. Coaching is part of the team. If you break the Spurs down to component level, they don't match up well on paper with OKC. It's just that OKC has historically under-performed. Adjustments don't make teams go after loose balls and hustle back in transition. Spurs didn't seem too interested in winning, and not too upset about losing.

Truth.... Even when the Spurs beat them in 14 they were a handful and almost took it 7.

If Brooks was there we probably pull it off though

[K...]

Holy .. another...."Pop why you playing your scrubs, play your other scrubs instead"

[K...]

"pop coached bad" then "okc played good defense"

2015......outcoached = sitting green and kawhi so long....?

These "pop sucks" folks pick the lamest things to harp on.

2015 = lame ass tiago, lame ass parker

[DMC]

You cannot go like 2 for 300 and expect a coaching adjustment to fix that. You cannot couple that shooting with not getting to 50/50 balls, giving up offensive rebounds (en masse) and expect to win. Missing that many shots in a short time span can deflate a team, and could add to the lack of hustle, but that's not the mark of a champion. Champions play through it. We did so in 2014 against Dallas, and Dallas did so in 2011 against Portland (I think) when they had to come back against a huge deficit to win. In both cases, the winning teams went ballistic afterward and didn't look back.

[daslicer]

Truth.... Even when the Spurs beat them in 14 they were a handful and almost took it 7.

If Brooks was there we probably pull it off though

We lost with Brooks before in '12 and barely won in '14. Donovan hasn't really changed the way this team plays. They run the same iso offense. He made one adjustment of playing Kanter/Adams together and now everybody acts like he's a genius. Brooks would have made the same type of adjustment.

[daslicer]

Holy .. another...."Pop why you playing your scrubs, play your other scrubs instead"

This these guys don't realize the Spurs just didn't matchup well with OKC size. There is nothing Pop could have done to mitigate this disadvantage.

[K...]

Listen to 9:30 "kawhi isn't really a factor, they shut him down, he wasn't a susperstar"

[RD2191]

Listen to 9:30 "kawhi isn't really a factor, they shut him down, he wasn't a susperstar"

How many rings do other of the nba's superstars have? I'll wait.

[RD2191]

The Spurs were the better team. We lost 2 games by a combined 5 points iirc and both had controversial endings.

[TheGreatYacht]

Pop sucks

[RD2191]

Pop sucks

He fails to make the most obvious adjustments. Instead of integrating different lineups during the season he kept playing diaw/west and mills, knowing that they would get ed in the playoffs. Miller and boban just rotting on the bench when they could of been key in this series.

[TheGreatYacht]

He fails to make the most obvious adjustments. Instead of integrating different lineups during the season he kept playing diaw/west and mills, knowing that they would get ed in the playoffs. Miller and boban just rotting on the bench when they could of been key in this series.

That Memphis series really ed the team over. This dude thought Fat Head was capable of playoff minutes because he was playing against players of his level (D-League).

The West-Diaw pairing is inexcusable no matter how much his fans deflect it. TD should've been there with the second unit, same goes for one of KL/LMA.

[spursistan]

The Spurs were the better team. We lost 2 games by a combined 5 points iirc and both had controversial endings.

“I couldn’t be prouder of the way we played in the second half,” Popovich said. “They busted their fannies to do the best job they could. We just met a better team.”

this team is going nowhere when the guy steering this ship is showing this inexcusable level of defeatism and non-accountability...

Time to face reality: Pop is officially a liability to this team in the playoffs.. this er is dissing a group that won 12 more games than a Thunder team that's been 2nd worst 4th quarter performers in the league after 76ers..

Pop is just going through the motions...It happens when you got that kind of job security and you get old..

[K...]

this team is going nowhere when the guy steering this ship is showing this inexcusable level of defeatism and non-accountability...

Time to face reality: Pop is officially a liability to this team in the playoffs.. this er is dissing a group that won 12 more games than a Thunder team that's been 2nd worst 4th quarter performers in the league after 76ers..

Pop is just going through the motions...It happens when you got that kind of job security and you get old..

Giving kobyz a run for emo poster of the year.

[Sean Cagney]

We lost with Brooks before in '12 and barely won in '14. Donovan hasn't really changed the way this team plays. They run the same iso offense. He made one adjustment of playing Kanter/Adams together and now everybody acts like he's a genius. Brooks would have made the same type of adjustment.

I didn't say he was some kind of genius Slicer, just can't believe Pop did not make a key adjustment in the series earlier to channel it when it was killing the Spurs since game 2 pretty much. I know we lost with Brooks in 12, remember that series well unfortunately. They get by on their star power IMO, that move to put in Adams and Kanter would be one anyone would make you are correct and Pop did not really counter that one in the series, no key adjustment. I would not necessarily say out coached as I would say more so just not having the personell to do it being the make up of the team. How could he have countered it with what he had? Would it have worked?

Games 2 and 5 go a different way at the end and this is not even a discussion right now.

[Keepin' it real]

This these guys don't realize the Spurs just didn't matchup well with OKC size. There is nothing Pop could have done to mitigate this disadvantage.

[RD2191]

this team is going nowhere when the guy steering this ship is showing this inexcusable level of defeatism and non-accountability...

Time to face reality: Pop is officially a liability to this team in the playoffs.. this er is dissing a group that won 12 more games than a Thunder team that's been 2nd worst 4th quarter performers in the league after 76ers..

Pop is just going through the motions...It happens when you got that kind of job security and you get old..

Pop tbh. He's an idiot if he truly believes that.

[tholdren]

The best team always wins. Coaching is part of the team. If you break the Spurs down to component level, they don't match up well on paper with OKC. It's just that OKC has historically under-performed. Adjustments don't make teams go after loose balls and hustle back in transition. Spurs didn't seem too interested in winning, and not too upset about losing.

Culture does. And these players, for whatever reason, play with no urgency. They've taken the "it's just basketball" or the "basketball is a game of runs" and taken it to the extreme where they always think they will automatically be there with a chance to win. They don't have an edge. They haven't had an edge unless manu is out there doing crazy things. Coaching absolutely can, and should, make a player want to out-work his opponent every chance he can.

[SuperCam]

get over yourself, 1200 planets were just discovered you know

[spurs10]

The Spurs were the better team. We lost 2 games by a combined 5 points iirc and both had controversial endings.

'Controversial endings' is a nice way to put it. Game 5 was worse than 2012 Game 6. The wrong team got the W and it was admitted by the NBA. Adams gets called for the trip- a flagrant- we get the ball and free throws- game.