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someone notable? a gambling person?
Yeah ok..
I'm glad this egotistical POS is getting called out by someone notable.
Everything he does is to try to prove he can win with ty players...
Let this sink in...
Game 6 against okc
Spurs up 19-18...Anderson comes in for Leonard in the 3 minute mark. And the other starters after a few minutes...
Doesnt sub Leonard and others till the spurs were already getting mandhandled and down big.
someone notable? a gambling person?
Yeah ok..
Because the other half dozen threads calling out Pop's coaching weren't enough? You had to start a new ing thread quoting a nobody... but without an actual quote or even a link? So your whole post is YOUR ty take on one example you didn't like?
"Lookit me!! Lookit me!!". As per usual.
Also, Pop's resistance to go small in the whole series -until his desperation move in the 2nd half of game 6- was especially stupid considering that OKC having two big men on the court all game killed us on the boards, he should have tried to force Donovan to play small ball...
This was discussed two weeks ago so i'll give my thoughts again having listened to the podcast:
The randy whitman comment was "pop was dedicated to the midrange game like Randy Whitman" Not pop sucks like him or anything like that but a very specific context.
Then they talked about the questionable lineups before admitting, our team was really lacking options. Then they covered it up with "coaching is hard, we don't know, this is hindsight"
Then simmons makes the joke "my real issue is POP cost me money"
Thus, you see, the comment is just that, a comment. The truth is y'all are still trying to make hay over the fact that we lost in the second round walking out a dead duncan and impotent porker. You can't coach around TOSB.
you need shooters and drivers to play small. Who do you want....parker, mills, green, k, lma? Woo great......
Pop should have made trades to fix holes on the team instead of being drunk during the season...
Or Parker/Manu/Green/KL/LMA...Or Mills/Manu/Green/KL/LMA...Everything would have been better than having Adams-Ibaka & Adams-Kanter on the floor all game.
Kawhi was driving in these playoffs like never before, Danny shot over .51 3P% in the series, LMA was great in the first 2 games, without one of those two OKC big men in the paint, they could have had a chance to get some easy buckets.
Last edited by YGWHI; 06-04-2016 at 01:14 AM.
Kobyz and I agree...must bt the end of the world.
I like Harablos. During the clips series last year he was very complimentary towards SA in his bill Simmons podcast.
And I know I might get my Spurs fan card pulled , but I'm getting legitimately tired of Pop's "F you, I have 5 rings and I don't have to be accountable" act.
I'll just go watch the 2014 vids on YouTube now.
fire pop
im seriious
Been hearing this a lot of people even a week after the Spurs got eliminatedWhich was really frustrating coz Pop could have made the obvious adjustments of not playing west and diaw together, and could have won the series
Long ass off season ...
Are you absolutely sure they didn't try? Given how much they tinkered with the roster in the last month of the regular season, I'd be stunned if they didn't at least try to make something happen.
The fact that nothing happened at the trade deadline doesn't mean that they weren't trying to make something happen; it might mean (and probably does mean) that the things that they tried to make happen were coming at a cost that they just weren't willing to pay.
I'd agree about Miller if the Spurs werent getting on til he came in later in the game tbh
Why do the Spurs always get the vets when they're washed up. Miller could have filled a real need a couple of years ago.
People are still bitter about the loss to the Thunder. I have blamed Pop in the past for questionable moves such as not playing Duncan in the final seconds of 6, not playing Splitter against the Grizzlies '11, and going small against the Mavs in '06. In this situation I don't blame him for this loss because the spurs just couldn't match up with the Thunder's size. Duncan deteriorated which screwed things up and forced Pop to overplay West, and Diaw who were liabilities against the Thunder. Some people scream that the Spurs should have played small but the Spurs don't have the athletes and shooters to pull it off successfully. Look at the Warriors who have the best small ball lineup in the league and they barely beat the Thunder.
I agree with haralabob when he said they should've attacked kanter in the pick n roll. Spurs never did it
What's the source for this quote? I remember when he was on Simmons' podcast in the first round he was talking about how the Spurs should use Boban against Golden State and how the 2012 Spurs were one of the best teams he had ever seen.
The thing is, they were... it was the last year of the DPG all at all star level and then you had rookie Kawhi who was already a great defender, corner 3 shooter, and finisher. Green was a deadly 3 point shooter and good young defender, Splitter was healthy and solid, and you had Bobo and Jackson off the bench along with Manu to provide energy and quality play... that team was so deep and so good.
Of course Pop screwed the pooch by not making adjustments on defense in game 4 and then unnecessarily panicking by eliminating Danny Green from the rotation in game 5 (Manu had an amazing game but him and Duncan were the only players taking shots and it wasn't 2005 and frankly that's not how we got the 20 game winning streak and the #1 seed in the West that year anyways!)
If not for that royal up against the Thunder, the 2012 Spurs could have been one of those legendary 16–1 playoff teams or something like that. They were that good.
The turning point of the 2012 WCF was Scott Brooks putting Thabo on Porker after he torched WestBrick in Gm 2, which resulted in the Spurs turning the ball over 21 times in Gm 3. It eventually resulted in Danny getting benched b/c the offense stalled.
-Gm 4: ChewBaka went 11-11 & OKC was able to win despite WestBrick only scoring 7 pts.
-Gm 5: Harden makes BS shots after BS shot in the 4th quarter to hold off the Spurs.
-Gm 6: ThundeRefs
If OKC had 2012 Harden as their closer, they would have beaten the Duds.
GREAT POST.
Completely agree with this.
Amended.
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