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How about this? We start Brent in game 5
it. On to Game 5.
How about this? We start Brent in game 5
You can blame this on Crawford if u want...but pop is the reason we lost
Why not rest Duncan for at least a couple minutes in the 4th Q so he can rejuvenate?
All his shorts in the 4th came up short...he was gassed.
Finley paid Pop to take Barry out. Only it backfired on Finley cause he thought Pop would put him in the game to jack up some more missed shots.
The master plan by Finley to screw the Spurs once again.
NOBODY can outcoach Phil. Nobody. He even made Sloan look like an idiot out there at times. Phil is the best coach I've seen in all my years watching basketball. I like Pop better as a person, but Phil is the better coach.
And no, Pop didn't lose this game for us, like AHF always seems to think. Our guys not rebounding lost the game for us. Think whatever you want though, just quit constantly bagging on one of the best coaches in league history. If Manu shoots better and our guys board, he wouldn't be stuck playing a 36 year old that many minutes.
I love your avatar but you're wrong. Players lost this one. No boards and they couldn't hit their shots when the pressure was on...again.
We rest Tim for even a minute of that 4th quarter and the Lakers' lead would have ballooned. He was our only big man doing ANYTHING tonight...as usual.
We had about 30 people watching this game tonight and we were shouting at the top of our lungs for Pop to put Brent back in!
I agree that we got outplayed in pretty much all aspects on the game, but i firmly believe if Barry was in most of the 4th quarter, we would have won. We took out only offense out and put in the anti-offense (manu)
excactly
when tim sat LA was destroying Spurs
On other side LA were up so Phil decided to give Kobe some rest
That's why it was important to get of the gates strong.
Spurs were down and never, even had chance, got over the hump
This is still one of the biggest reasons we lost last night, but it's been buried by Fishergate threads...
They had plenty of chances to tie and/or take the lead, they did not convert.
yeah I don't understand Pop.
He also left a tired Duncan all 4th quarter.
could have rested him 1 or 2 minutes.
also he did not try Kurt Thomas in 1st half. COmeon why the did we get his ass then? get kurt in there to nail some ppl and get some rebounds.
Try using a stronger finger to hold down the shift key.
Who the did AHF want Pop to sit? You sit Bowen and Kobe scores every time down the floor. You really want to give up on Manu? Take Parker off the floor? Go small and have an injured/tired Ginobili guard Odom?
You can't cry about keeping Barry on the floor without saying who you would have put on the bench. I was pissed that Barry went out .... until I realized there was no one to sit. Best option was to sit Manu but you never sit Manu with your season on the line.
Oberto?
Matt Bonner could have used his fresh legs to spell Duncan for 2 minutes, and go all out in those two minutes! Hit as many shots as he can and use his hustle all over the court! But for some reason Bonner has played all of maybe 10 minutes in the last 30 games. I liked his shot and his hustle! Sometimes Pop vexes me.
Also known as going small. You want hobbled/fatigued Manu trying to guard Odom? AHF whines about small ball and now he whines when Pop doesn't go to small ball?
Classic.
Absolutely sit injured/struggling Manu. Also as to taking Parker off, see last years plays with Jacque Vaughn in spurts or see Barrdog last night at the point guard! Get Vaugn or Barry in earlier to rest Parker thus Parker is not so ineffctive. Numb nutts Pop took how long to give Barry a shot at the point and how did it work out? Lets check that + - with Barry on the floor and subdivision of + - with Barry at the point. Parker was gassed for stretches of the game yet the O ended up being the ball swung to him for a clunker.
Sit Manu, or sit Parker, but sitting Barry was ball game.
Sit Manu. no brainer
u really don't know Manu if you actually thought he was going to miraculously instantly become the real Manu at that moment
Personally, I'd have sat Oberto, gone small, and taken our chances with the Manu/Odom matchup. At worst he would've just fouled him and Odom is a streaky foul shooter. Maybe he could've drawn an offensive foul or something, who knows?
With all the whistles in the game Pop could've shuttled Oberto and Barry back and forth for offense/defense. Sure, it wouldn't have always worked, but the game didn't have too many sequences where there wasn't a whistle every 2nd or 3rd possession.
Pop did his best to keep Barry on the court as much as possible in the 4th before crunch time. In crunch time you have your top 3 players on the court. It's as simple as that.
Question for Lakers fans:
Do you guys call your HOF coach an idiot, a turd and other disparaging names because of one or two mistakes....forgetting all the great accomplishments and championships that he orchestrated over the last decade?
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