Don't know who that is, but it was painfully obvious. Pop needs to be called out on this .
If I can get the wife and kids on-board, I'm coming for McDonald's job. No bull .
I would have preferred to see Pop let the players decide the game. I think he suspected they weren't going to be able to get stops bc the fouling/refereeing was such a problem.
Still, he did deprive the players of the opportunity to play out the possession and it was the players who got the game to that point to even be ahead.
I've said 100 times, Pop doesn't give a about momentum. He notoriously yanks players that are in a groove, as if he's snuffing out any chance their head gets a little big.
He coaches grown ass men like an eighth grade gym coach.
Because it's about him and his "genius." He's bought into the press-clippings, like Duncan had no part.
We're the San Antonio Pops, as far as he's concerned - and it's been like that for awhile now.
The hyprocrits are out in full force these days. Regular season games are meaningless.The PATFO is the smartest organization in sports, they know what they're doing more than you.
Pop deserves credit, but it's laughable to see the retrospective credit he receives now - the media and fans are just now giving credit for the dues of yesteryear.The hyprocrits are out in full force these days. Regular season games are meaningless.
Like I said, he deserves credit for building a template of sustained success. But that template has no shot without Duncan and a commitment to defense - not at the highest level, at least.
He's made the Spurs into a gatekeeper. They're the ones you beat to become a champion, not the ones that threaten the throne.
They could be - possibly - but he won't allow it. Not unless it's due to him and his intelligence.
Meh, I give Sam Presti 85% credit for building the template and Pop 15% for being in the room. I don't think the decision to draft Tim Duncan over Keith Van Horn was a particularly challenging one. I agree with the rest though.
This dumb gimmick has never worked. I thought the Spurs employed a bunch of smart guys, so why are they always pulling this dumb ?
This dumb gimmick has never worked. I thought the Spurs employed a bunch of smart guys, so why are they always pulling this dumb ?
Tim allowed his system to work. He's been living off residuals. I give him credit for the template because it takes something to sustain that kind of success. Talent first, but he did something with it. I don't think he did the most he could have with it, but many have done less.
Tim's shadow has had him trying to create his own. He's failed - and it's tactics like tonight that prove the point, imo.
I just watched the game. I am mad as .
He's a ING . Ben Simmons isn't Shaq. What a ing idiot call from Pop. I am really starting the believe the people that are saying Pop is making it all about him.
WHAT A ING IDIOTIC STRATEGY. ing stupid, stupid call to hack Simmons.
Spurs had the game in the bag until pop decided to it all up
Shaq's career FT% is only slightly worse than BS's.
I agree it was stupid because it broke the Spurs flow, it was at a time the Spurs were on a 13-4 run or something like that, but it wasn't what lost them the game. The hacking stopped at 104 a piece, 2 minutes left to play and Spurs ball. They failed to execute down the stretch.
Hasn’t he lost games like that b4? Sure they were close games, tough, maybe you even needed some good luck to win them ( whether lucky makes or misses or something) but yea Pop took the luck/random momentum element and said. NahhhPlus the Spurs had all the momentum at that point, the arena was quiet...
I don't believe in momentum, hot hands
aw
He has done it b4 and lost games that way. I think he was upset by all the Spurs fouling and wel Pop has a temper.
Lets hack ben
Pop was amazing in 2014... benching Timmy D in 2013 I'm sure played a part in that. He was a maniac a year later. Unfortunately, I don't see a tragedy like that play out again, and so we get Poop...
He had already hit six in a row or something shortly before that. And it's not like he was missing all that badly either; and many shots were looking pretty good / not just clanking them in.
Completely agree... Dude was making a huge scene to foul Simmons... Wanted it to be about him coaching and doing the unexpected... Because literally NO other coach in the NBA would think about doing something so stupid... His ego is off the charts... If Kawhi leaves, it will be because of how pop babies him
Because it broke our momentum... Don't u ever play basketball?
Pop benching Timmy was another cute Pop move to do something unconventional (stupid) that would make the media talk about how clever he is since at that time it looked like we couldn't possibly lose...
Don't you ever read?
No.
Like I said ...
So that's how they lost to a team in a 12 game losing streak?
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