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Totally agree with Pop as the detailed article shows. I can see him taking advantage of the ocassion and willingly overreacting in front of the mics. Depending on today's Walker reaction before the game, he will have a chance to redeem himself or he'll be sent to the dog house. We shall see. Whatever it happens is the correct teaching decission.
Lonnie is smart. We will be fine. Hopefully he's playing some today and he plays well.
It's amazing how many young fans doesn't know a thing about Gregg Popovich. He's not Tom Izzo!
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how has Lonnie shown he's better than DJ, White or even Forbes?
There’s a word for that. It’s called “favoritism “
As the great Wooden and Aurbach once said, there should be no coaching during the game. That’s what practices are for.
Great analysis, that’s what I come here for. As others have said Pop has been around guys like Lonnie for decades, he knows what he can and can’t say depending on the individual. If anything, I think it says a lot about what Pop thinks Lonnie can be, plus Lonnie must have thick skin in the mould of TP.. remember a few years ago when Pop came out after LMAs first season and conceded that he’d been using LMA wrongly, a rare admission of being at fault from Pop; my take was this was more Pop stroking LMAs fragile ego and I found it dissapointing that the whispers of LMAs preciousness were seemingly true. Clearly (I hope) not the same case with Lonnie. He seems like a guy that is comfortable in his own skin.
LJ doing LJ things. Terrific breakdown. Really helped all of us see exactly what Pop was talking about.
https://www.spurstalk.com/lonnie-wal...opovich-right/
Personally, I'm excited. This tells me Pop sees something in Walker and he's trying to get it out of him. If Pop just wanted a defender today who wouldn't make many mistakes, he could remove DeMarre Carroll from the shrink wrap. But he's trying to get greatness out of Walker
I wrote in this space before the game that Pop should put Walker on Leonard as the designated fouler, just to get some experience in playing against one of the best in the game. As every basketball critic, writer and coach has said, he has all the tools--speed, jumping ability, lateral speed, etc. --to be a very very good defender in this league. Since Kwahi has regressed to shooting that extremely flat jumper that he showed when he came to the league, I even had dreams of Walker leaping vertically to block a shot or two of the superstar or , please God, a "DO Deflection." Wouldn't that have been something? :-) . From dreams back to the actual game plan for Walker.
He wouldn't be expected to stop Kwahi, just to work hard and harass him. He did fine at the start, but at some point he lost his heart and his direction. He even stopped checking Leonard down court in transition. At one point he left Leonard wide open in the corner to go help out under the basket on a fool's errand. Under some cir stances you might applaud him for help defense from the weak side, but when your assignment is to stick with Leonard, a reigning MVP, young man, you better be close enough to exchange spit all the time you are on the court.
Young players are hard for a coach to read. Some take a challenge and raise their game while some get their dobbers down when the littlest thing goes wrong. The thing is Coach Pop isn't known for cutting players slack if they sulk or get depressed. . We'll see if Walker has the right stuff to shake it off and come back at his next opportunity
1 - Lou Williams is a professional scorer. He's beaten many great defenders off the dribble. It happens.
2 - Nephew is a beast with his back to the basket. He got to the middle more than once last night. I didn't see a lack of compe iveness on Lonnie's part either. To me it looks like he simply got caught overplaying Neph's signature right shoulder fadeaway. Again, I chalk it up to it happens.
3 - Pretty common for players to end up cross-matched in transition. Not seeing it.
4 - Looks to me like Lonnie was heading over to defend Neph. Forbes just got there first. Maybe he could've waved Bryn off but that's nitpicking, imo.
5 - This is one was really the only one that I thought was truly bad. He was in the corner three and started walking back casually after the made basket which led to DeRozan ending up on Nephew.
This is one of the rare times when I don't agree with your assessment, OP. Not enough to warrant that kind of public call out from Pop, imho. You want to motivate the kid to be great, you can rip into him all you want in house.
Love it, old man pop going to realize? A Stuobborn mule at 70years of age whos probably clingling to the last bit patience he has left for Melaniels understands them? h
haha nice one.
So it would set a bad precedent for pop to “allow” a rookie to make mistakes but not for letting Beli coast 99% of the time and still close games?
Not talking talent with Beli but complete aloofness
Yeah, I thought the story was that Pop treats everyone the same.
Regardless of what Pop was or wasn't trying to do with Lonnie last night, he pissed off a game with his horrible rotations. I guess he pissed off a chance at winning a game - there are no guarantees of a W. But Pop's rotations pretty much guaranteed the L.
Exactly.
Belineli will be at the end of the bench by the end of the season.
this tbh... beli's struggles are not just his physical ability. forbes is a good example of a guy who tries but just isn't good enough on that end. beli doesnt even try but pop still leaves him out there for 15-20 per game no problem.
Nah, if we didn't give them so many second chance opportunities and missed a bunch of free throws, we would've won without a doubt.
There was plenty of blame to go around. Everyone else has taken a verbal beating over their poor play (including missed FT's and weak boarding). I don't understand the people who line up to cut Pop slack. The simple truth is, the Spurs could have been more compe ive without some of the bizarre lineups. It wouldn't have taken much to have turned that into a toss-up game.
BTW - I don't think anyone here is questioning the fact that Lonnie made mistakes. It's about how Pop handled him, and about the lineups. Yell at him if you have to - then put him back in the game to see how he responds. He's not getting better sitting on his ass. And Beli's not getting better on the court.
Dog house? Like calling him out was not enough? Lol
Personally, I'm excited. This tells me Pop sees something in Walker and he's trying to get it out of him. If Pop just wanted a defender today who wouldn't make many mistakes, he could remove DeMarre Carroll from the shrink wrap. But he's trying to get greatness out of Walker (albeit on another team.)
^rofl
Personally, I'm excited. This tells me Pop sees something in Walker and he's trying to get it out of him. If Pop just wanted a defender today who wouldn't make many mistakes, he could remove DeMarre Carroll from the shrink wrap. But he's trying to get greatness out of Walker (albeit on another team.)
Pop will get to see the best of Lonnie every time he's in SA.
Today, he has been noncompe ive as well,
Thank goodness half the idiots whining and "mocking" one of the all-time great coaches isn't anywhere near an even semi-pro organization.
The combined basketball IQ of all the trolls in the this thread is less than 0........
Pop is a senile old that already cost us Mute Cancer.
He needs to go the away and live the rest of his days planting flowers and drinking wine.
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