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What a bold, Championship chasing move.
He's the greatest "coach" ever. Nothing he does or doesn't do won't change that fact this season.
The reason I'm definitely stating such is because it's been proven with numerous studies that coaching doesn't have much of an impact on overall team performance. See here: https://usatthebiglead.files.wordpre...chingpaper.pdf
In fact Pop and Phil were only marginally better than the worse NBA head coaches.
We as fans overrate the impact of "systems" "sets" "schemes" and "plays." A basketball game will always be 99% decided by the team who is more skilled and athletic. Not which team runs the fancier X's and O's variation. For evidence, look at last year's OKC team. They didn't run anything. Pretty much freelanced everything with ISO sets, and were looking like a sure le winner until Durant sabotaged the series. Then you have Cleveland. Everything they do is pretty much generated off Lebron penetration. Nothing fancy there. And now Tyrone Lue has the same amount rings as Larry Brown
So why do I say Pop is the greatest ever? Where NBA basketball is really won is on the scouting, development, and roster building side of things, and since Pop installed himself as GM and then President of Basketball Operations, the Spurs have been a tier above the rest in those key areas.
When we suffer a rough playoff exit, it really does come down to the fact we just couldn't hit shots, as Pop has said many times. I used to think he was being sardonic in that regard, but not anymore. Sure, Pop's made some questionable lineup changes during key playoff moments, and the lineup a coach chooses to send out is the in-game action action he's most responsible for, but beyond that, players really do win games. Not X's and O's sprung from the mind of head coaches.
What a bold, Championship chasing move.
Pop not ing around with those subs utions tonight. Told ya guys.
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