'There's no basketball anymore, there's no beauty in it.' Pop

[Slippy]

Their offense is fine. I don't see why people need to keep ing about that. It's their D that sucks. The Spurs either won or were close to winning the three-point battle in every playoff series they played because they were able to prevent their opponents from getting a bunch of looks from three while being judicious with their own. This year, they're canning threes with a lot of success and have an offense that generates more good looks than their 3P% suggests. But they can't seem to stop anyone from getting wide-open shot after wide-open shot. It makes it look like the Spurs are way behind on the three-point battle, but in reality they just have an alternate strategy that would work fine with better defensive personnel.

Of course, the reason why they're missing this personnel is because of PATFO. Pop doesn't get to act like the league is ruining things for him. They'd suck in most eras because they don't contain well and can't contest without swiping down. Blah, blah, blah coaching and all that. You know where I'm going with it.

Pretty much this.

[MultiTroll]

there is no leader on this team.

Patty Mills, Leader. -

[John B]

DJ, Green, Kawhi, Gay, LMA. I think that lineup could’ get Dubs a run for their money, and maybe a few rings with Kawhi, DJ and LW4, but we know what happened next. Just bad luck. Hey DRob went down and was like the worst thing but then resulted to Timmy. Maybe this could mean Zion? Who knows?

[r0drig0lac]

if we had an elite support cast (top 5-10 in the league, for example), that topic would not be done, I do not really think Derozan is the problem, but who PATFO put around him (maybe for Kawhi would have been enough, though with the current roster I really doubt), but Derozan needs more talent around him, this is obvious, if you had Demar, Giannis and Ben Simmons on the same team and a decent support cast, you would still win more than 50 games, even your best players not having an external shot, talent is still the most important.

[Brazil]

argument is kinda dumb, of course the game evolved but the fact the Spurs are in disconnect has nothing to do with lack of willingness or lack of vision.. 2014 Spurs would do great in today's nba.. Spurs could not pass opportunity to get LMA tbh and DeRozan is more kiwi ing with the Spurs than not seeing how nba evolved. It does not mean PATFO did not up here and there.

[SAGirl]

I know he said it in a context but when I read this headline it actually makes it sound like he’s a depressed old man. Perhaps retirement is really close.

[Brazil]

I know he said it in a context but when I read this headline it actually makes it sound like he’s a depressed old man. Perhaps retirement is really close.

dude lost his wife, saw tim and manu retiring, tony signing for another team, being betrayed by spoiled rat kiwi.. who would not be tbh..

I don't see retiring on a bad note.. I believe he will try to put back Spurs on track before that..

[Ed Helicopter Jones]

I think when Pop made this statement he was actually talking about the current Spurs, not the league in general.

[duncan2k5]

I thought some smart poster told me defense doesn't matter in the NBA anymore