GREGG POPOVICH

[oski1000]

I don't understand why nobody fouled Ray Allen before he moved off to get his 3 pointer.

[boutons_deux]

I don't understand why nobody fouled Ray Allen before he moved off to get his 3 pointer.

a long history about that tactic among many coaches and fans. Pop has said he won't do it.

[jag]

That escalated quickly...

[td4mvp2k]

Piece of arrogant son of a soft ass overrated ass coach. Tim made him look good his whole career,and then he doesn't trust him and benches him. F you Pop, u soft ass little scared overrated .

[Blake]

Lol melt downs

Yes:

Pop sucked
Manu sucked
Tony sucked
Tim sucked in the 4th quarter
Danny sucked
Refs sucked

Team loss.

Is what it is. Game 7.

[TheGreatYacht]

Countless terrible coaching decisions.
Not the least of them is playing Manu way too many ing minutes. We were up by at least 10 when Manu came in and pissed it away. It was so obvious that Miami was licking their chops when Manu was in and trapping him so that he would make a ridiculous pass that they could pick off. What's that, Pop? Parker was tired? WHO GIVES A FLYING !!! There is no tomorrow; it's a must win game! YOU HAVE LESS THAN A 1% CHANCE OF WINNING A GAME 7 IN MIAMI, you dumb POS.
Don't even get me started on pulling Duncan not once, but twice in critical situations. You know they are going to get one good look at the shot. You know this because, if you are half a coach, you will have told your guys NOT TO ING FOUL. Your best hope is that they brick the shot and you get the rebound. , if only we had a consensus first ing ballot Hall of Famer at power forward on our team who's, like, really ing good at rebounds. Oh, wait! We do, and his ing name is Tim Duncan. Too bad he's RIDING THE ING PINE with the game on the line.
The Spurs were killing it with Parker, Green, Leonard, Diaw, and Duncan, and Pop blows up the lineup down the stretch to put in Turnobili, Tiago "Stone Hand, Pussy Feet" Splitter, and Gary Neal. What the !!! Ride your goddamn ponies into the ground. THERE IS NO ING GAME 7 YOU STUPID PIECE OF !!!
My only solace is that Pop will regret his bull coaching for the remainder of his life. And he deserves to.

Is there anyone in here, that DIDN'T know that MANU was going to have a game after his first 3 or 4 or 5 turnovers? It's only been his MO all season...1 good game, 2 bad games, etc.
Manu had his good game in game 5. He came out like in this game, and everyone knew how it would go.
Yet POP gave him even MORE minutes this game. IMHO, it's not even that close without Manu's turnovers. And that is totally on POP, for increasing his minutes in perhaps the worst game of MANU's career.

Manu TO's: 8 Rest of Spurs TO's: 5.

I was texting my buddy, Manu would come in and kill the lead. I was yelling at the TV for Timmy to come in and rebound, before Lebron's 3. Pop, you were a ing moron tonight. And no ,that is not second guessing or any of that . Pop ed up royally tonight. kkk.

Manu doesn't just play bad. He gives the other teams too many points with his turnovers. Then...after all the turnover , he STILL hasn't learned his lesson and gives Bosh and and1.

Look at the lineup that was out there, who was going to score? Certainly not weak ass splitter and certainly not Turnover happy Manu. I don't think Tim went to Pop and said, "Pop it's game 6, the trophy is waiting for us but I need to rest", You're running on adrenaline if not just hyped for the moment. Tony resting even though he didn't carry the load for the first half? That's just ty coaching.. You have a 10 point lead and you go for the throat you don't ease off and hope to maintain a lead.. , you call a time out as if that was going to help and you keep the same ty players out there who had no momentum, no play called or anything to get them going.. nothing for Green or Neal?
Being 37 has nothing to do with being in the moment, 1 game and up by 10 and the crowd not into it..

Pop is just too damn hardheaded for his own good. AndI'm getting damn tired of his childish, bull interviews where he tries to be cute. Get over yourself, Pop. Tonight was his worst coaching game I can remember. Some can say Manu cost us the game tonight but, Pop should have yanked his ass when all of us saw Manu no longer had it. He gave all he had in game 5 and at his age and with all his ailments it didn't take an Einstein to see he just didn't have it tonight.
Every NBA player alive wanted us to kick Lebron's ass and instead he kicked Pop in the balls. Maybe Pop got into a bad batch of Jamaican Rum thinking it was wine. He stunk the place up tonight.

Why no TO 20 secs before the end of OT?Amateur coaching by Pop.

8 second chance points for Heat in 44 minutes of Tim on the floor.
6 second chance points in last 30 seconds of regulation with Tim spectating from the bench.

Riding Manu too long and not having Duncan out there to rebound on the Ray Allen 3 were big time fails. Keeping Duncan on the bench was perhaps the biggest fail, as Indiana made the same mistake with Hibbert in the ECF. Teams just keep letting Miami off the hook.

Pop is responsible for all of the above.

[TheGoldStandard]

This is on Pop... let's look at it like this, 10 point lead and lets bench Tim Duncan and Tony Parker for Tiago Splitter and Manu Ginobili.. Let's analyze that for a second, Tony causes double teams and Tim was on fire.. He had 5 points in the 3rd, didn't take a lot of shots and looked fine while he was on the bench, not gassed at all. Up to that point Tony hadn't been responsible for the scoring so he was still mostly fresh. So I'd run them out there to protect that lead and maybe escalate that because you know Miami was going to force a run or try to. You slow the game down and you go into Tim but nope, 2 straight PnR opportunities with Manu and Tiago that resulted in .. So we take a time out and we run the same out of the timeout like anything was going to change. Shooters on the perimeter just watching... So then we finally see Duncan and Parker and we see Miami already have momentum and we have to claw our way out of it with our starters.. then we miss critical FTs which is on everyone that missed.. then Pop takes Duncan out of the game twice because Diaw is quicker on the switch but why not just have Duncan in there guarding Bosh and don't switch, have Kawhi on Lebron crowding him, if anything take Parker out of the game so you have length on the court and rebounding.. Nope, ty game plan.

No Parker in the last sequences of OT, more Manu and then no timeout which was stupid.. Oh and then we need a 3 to end the game and Tiago Splitter is in the game??? lol Stack our 3 point shooters so everyone has to stay on somebody and run some screens for someone.

[ducks]

Earlier in the playoffs, Popovich benched Duncan for the last four minutes of the Spurs’ series-clinching victory over the Golden State Warriors. The rational was the same as on Tuesday night: speedier players could smother the 3-point line and snuff out the opposition’s comeback hopes.

[TheGoldStandard]

Earlier in the playoffs, Popovich benched Duncan for the last four minutes of the Spurs’ series-clinching victory over the Golden State Warriors. The rational was the same as on Tuesday night: speedier players could smother the 3-point line and snuff out the opposition’s comeback hopes.

That's 4 minutes opposed to last few seconds of a game with a critical play.. In that 4 minutes you control what you can control, you play through misses and made shots but in that situation you have to be thinking I need that ball if they miss. Nobody on that floor was going to rebound anything as they were all guarding someone.. Bosh was a non factor in that situation, Tim would have battled him better

[dbreiden83080]

Earlier in the playoffs, Popovich benched Duncan for the last four minutes of the Spurs’ series-clinching victory over the Golden State Warriors. The rational was the same as on Tuesday night: speedier players could smother the 3-point line and snuff out the opposition’s comeback hopes.

But they had Bosh in the game for the Allen 3.. Nobody on the floor could stop that rebound with Tim out. As soon as Spoelstra put Bosh in Tim had to come off the bench.. Nothing else made sense... Pop handed the Heat the championship last night..