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Per team purposes Pop should shoulder the blame on this performance, however we saw that no one came out to play. You can critisize all you want when a coach does stupid moves to erase a lead or let the other team going, but last night we didn't have one single player who even resembled being up to the challenge. There is nothing a coach can do in such situations. In fact, I believe Pop did much more wrong in Game 1 than in last night's game.
He tried to force feed Duncan, like most of us would have wanted, but Duncan wasn't there mentally, he tried to create space for Tony but he couldn't get going because they packed the paint and our shooters were ice cold, he tried everything we could have wanted from him - insert Bowen, Hill, etc. etc. Nothing worked, all players were apalling. His best lineup there were Vaughn, Hill, Ime, Kurt and Gooden. Actually 'best' is incorrect, more like least bad. This is probably just about on Clippers level.
I could understand critisizing him for mistakes in games we were in and could have won, like Game 1, but it is painfully obvious that unless someone has an agenda, which many here do, last night's game wasn't an example to start the Pop bashing.
On to Game 4. We've been in worse positions and have come up strong. There's a reason why this core has won multiple championships and they deserve to be trusted and supported, and not being kicked when they're down by their own fans.
