Also bingo, well the first half. The second half, yuck.
Some folks in this fanbase truly spoiled and completely delusional. As if any other coach, including Phil Jackson, Pat Riley and Red Auerbach (all big market coaches, people), could possibly squeezed this much success and good fortune outo this group.
Expected the long rest got the team out of wack....just stop with this bull and start prepping for playoffs...i hate to lose Game 1 at home because we coasted our asses to it..
+ 1
I hope we get someone in the draft this summer or a prospect from overseas like Bertans next season.
Like Jackson, Riley and Auerbach couldn't play a generational talent like Tim Duncan in his prime...
Pop likes to rest players in the playoffs too. He rested Duncan in game 6 against the Heat.
Pop's late-game decisions were awful in last seasons but some people don't want to admit it.
He rested Tony, Danny, Manu, and Tiago in the series against the Clippers last year.
It isn't just about Tim Duncan, dumbass. He's cultivated and maintained a culture of winning without a big market or deep pockets to back him up. Popovich, as much as Duncan, is responsible for all the winning and success of the last 19 seasons and counting. Auerbach, Jackson and Riley had big markets and deep - pocketed ownership to help them surround their generational talent with help. Parker and Ginobili became HOF quality players out of simingly nowhere, while Robinson was already here when Duncan/Popovich arrived and Kawhi has been an revelation built through hard work and a great development staff.
Like Jackson, Riley and Auerbach couldn't play a generational talent like Tim Duncan in his prime...
Tim Duncan deserves the bulk of the credit for Spurs success. I wonder if Pop could have built a winning franchise without him... But I can see Tim playing for Phil, Riley or Auerbach and winning at least 3 rings.
He doesn't get a ring in 13-14, nor come within a few seconds the year before, under any of those other coaches, because they would have worn him out. I don't think any other coach would have started trimming Tim's minutes down as early as Pop did. That alone got Tim another ring, and potentially a shot at two more.
It's hard to make the argument that Riley/Jackson would have been better for sure. With TD leading the way, we won 4 rings over 8 years with Pop as coach. It's a big call to say that Riley/Jackson could have led us to more than that. After 2007 we started to feel the effects of injuries and ongoing personnel issues ( o Jeff) and it wasn't until we drafted Kawhi that things started to turn around. I don't think any other coach could have set up the kind of system that's let the Spurs continue to be a dominant force in basketball almost two decades from when TD first entered the league - and I don't see the point in trying to argue that we would have won more rings in the prime years (99-2007) - maybe we would, maybe we wouldn't but the fact is that 4 rings in 8 seasons is nothing to complain about. Basically no other team has managed to keep that kind of longevity.
The only other team that comes close is the Lakers, winning 5 rings in 11 years. But there was a huge transitional period where they really, really sucked for a long time until deliverance came in the form of Pau Gasol - and just look where they are Post-Pau. They didn't build a culture of continued dominance like we've had in San Antonio. Pop is the only coach in history to have turned a small-market team into the most successful franchise in modern sports history for 19 years, and STILL showing no signs of slowing down.
Say what you want and all you can about Pop's ups at"this minute of this game" but you're a total moron if you think Pop's not a top3 coach of all time and that finding a replacement that could fill his shoes or give us the success that he's given us is incredibly unlikely. the Pop haters. Top3 coach all time guaranteed, possible best pending this season's results imo.
ter was awful. Deandre made him his in game 1 and he never went back to him.
Theres no les in San Antonio without Pop
Every other fanbase would kill to have him coach their team
His system has turned bad players into starters, decent players into stars and good players into great players
Maybe. Or Tim could have won more rings in his prime, at least one "repeat" playing for those coaches. Who knows...
So you're a supposed Warriors fan who shows love for Pop and Parker but talk about Kawhi and Green...You sound too much like a Cat Lover Meowing.
Who does he thinks he is? Too much babysitting professional athletes, tbh... "But, but, Kawhi has a bubu, he gonna miss the next 3 games"...
Hope we can get Kerr once he's done with Golden State, tbh... he's not afraid to go for 70+...
he was supposed to retire with Duncan
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