Kiszla: Popovich gets best of Karl

[boutons_]

"Weird metaphor. Weird writer"

You're being way too gracious.

[Samr]

Not to step to the author's defense or anything, but I believe he gets paid (though not $3 million a year) by the Denver Post, not the Denver Nuggets. His job is to write compelling articles, not play a game of strategy to help the Nuggets win. By saying he is throwing the coach/JR/whomever under the bus is saying that he actually cares, and professionally at least, I don't think he does. And blaming a sports writer for "hurting morale" is simply using that writer as an excuse. Who's under the bus now?

Karl is making for a good story, and Kiszla is writing it. Not his job to hide the coach's mistakes. Those mistakes are what give him a career.

[Borosai]

I hate Coach Karl. He reminds of the clown from spawn. I'll cyberblow anyone who photoshops that.

I'll pass on the cyber-bj, but here you go...

[Ed Helicopter Jones]

This guy is a terrible writer.




Also, he's more bandwagon than most of the posters in this place, which is hard to do.

[wildbill2u]

WTF? Is this some sort of inside joke or cutting edge pop reference I just don't get? Or is this guy insane?

And if this gets Karl feeling like he's in the crosshairs he'll be working overtime to crank out the excuses. Or is it CIA Karl? Did he and Smith conspire to create the impression of an imploding team to lull the Spurs into complacency?

Oh, rubbing the Sunday pot roast all over your chest is a Mountain Man thing--very popular around Denver--and then you run outside in the snow and holler, "Here Grizzly, here grizzly!"

[Cry Havoc]

Oh, rubbing the Sunday pot roast all over your chest is a Mountain Man thing--very popular around Denver--and then you run outside in the snow and holler, "Here Grizzly, here grizzly!"

And then Baron Davis comes out of nowhere and dunks over your pot-roasted ass, right?

[judaspriestess]

What is it with Denver throwing people under the bus? First, the entire city of Denver, the players, the coaches, the ball boy, the guy who scrapes gum out from under the seats, and the popcorn cranker blame JR Smith.

Now their resident standard-bearer of journalism blames Karl (as if anyone who ever watched a game coached by this guy is shocked).

Could it be something so simple (yet obviously so inconceivable for them): from top to bottom...wait for it...waaaaait for it...the Spurs are possibly better? *gasp*

"Despite the gray in their beards"

You are right, this guy unfortunately is soooooo hung up on the Spurs age, he feels it automatically makes the Nuggets better. By default of youth.

[Ronaldo McDonald]

I'll pass on the cyber-bj, but here you go...

[JPB]

"We're losing games we should win."

Denver isn't gonna advance with this state of mind.

If you don't see why you're losing games, you'll never win them.

Thinking you shoulda win without seeing the real reasons why you lost will never make you progress.

It's one think to concentrate on your game an be confident but from the beginning of this series, It seems like Denver don't respect the spurs for what they are and lack a bit of the humility Spurs have.

[BeerIsGood!]

I've never heard Pop or anyone in the Spurs organization say that they lost a game they should have won. Even when losing to the Bucks or Celtics. You lose for a reason, or rather many reasons.

[GrandeDavid]

Isn't this beat writer the loser who wrote that dismissive piece of junk on the Spurs being ousted after Denver took Game 1? And he calls J.R. Smith "excitable"! Gheez! What a moron. No credibility in what this cat spews.