I think so too. He just seems done, to the point that there's a good chance he won't even make it to 2020 with the USANT. I believe he fully intends to coach the Olympics, but he seems lost
Do you actually think Manu will ever coach? I'd think Tony would coach before Manu would.Obviously he isn't going to get fired
I could see him leaving sooner than expected, though..he's 70, hates modern basketball, has interests outside of the game and this team will likely be a bottom-feeder for a long time..
Hopefully Manu is willing to take over soon and turn this around..
We also had Kyle, Danny Green, Murray and Pau. And the refs weren't encouraged to call all games for teams to score 140
Two words: Becky Hammon. If the Spurs powers-that-be have a lick of sense.
Think of the media coverage.
Nobut I could see him being a GM or something else in the front office..
The way he discusses individual players and surprisingly uses advanced metrics on Twitter + his compe ive nature that will lead to boredom IMO..
Five years? So he was overrated going to the finals back to back, winning a championship, and then winning 67 games?
We left the game a few minutes into the 3rd quarter. It was that bad. This team has totally tuned out Pop. He has lost this team. I think they are as tired of him spouting off about players like he just did with KaWhitter or like him saying BB is dead and too boring. He is the one who makes the game boring. Pop has a big mouth that he really should keep shut, i.e., don't let things leave the so called locker room. The proverbial "what goes on here stays here". Pop really does need to consider retiring. He has allowed himself to get old and out of touch. Players and probably some coaches just don't relate to him anymore. This team needs a young thinker. Pop has had a wonderful career but, the time has come. Don't drag this out, Pop. Go out as a winner and allow yourself and everyone else to relive the good times and there have been a ton of good times with the Spurs over the years.
This is by far the worst Spurs team I can remember. They are not even trying. They are playing exactly like a team that doesn't want to play for its coach. The Timberwolves game was hard to watch on TV but, tonight in person, it was horrible. We'd be better off putting a high school team on the floor just for the of it. This is going to be a long season. The good news is both the Cowboys and Texans are playing some pretty good football. Even the Dallas Mavericks are playing decent basketball.
Danny was neutered in Pop's system, Kyle was an offensive nightmare, Murray isn't nearly as good as people make him out to be and Pau is virtually unplayable vs most elite teams.
But they could all play defense. Something none, absolutely zero, of their replacements this year on this team can do.
iirc, while manu was playing he had said something along the lines of coaching wasn't for him. things do change but manu has other interests than basketball... if he did end up coaching i don't expect that to happen anytime soon.Obviously he isn't going to get fired
I could see him leaving sooner than expected, though..he's 70, hates modern basketball, has interests outside of the game and this team will likely be a bottom-feeder for a long time..
Hopefully Manu is willing to take over soon and turn this around..
he'd make a great coach though.
Now that Bud has the Greek Freak and a bunch of other good players and he sees what is going on here he is probably at the Bucks office door begging to sign a long term contract. LOL And I wouldn't blame him.
Pop was never the smartest guy in the room. He lost his talented coaching staff that made him look good and then he evetually traded away defense for offense and it blew up in his damn face. He felt the Spurs system would eventually prevail and the Spurs would be a well oiled machine on offense and they would win games by outscoring their opponent. The little key ingredient he forgot to add to the punch bowl was talent. The players make up the system and if the players are old, unathletic and stupid, the system is going to reflect that. Pop thought he was inventing the wheel all along when in actuality, he had three hall of famers carrying his ass. Pop couldn't coach his way out of a shoebox with out Tim Duncan and what's even worse is that he's even worse at being a front end executive. He's not just the coach of this hot mess of a roster, he created it.
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We will be around .500 all year. That is what we are. So man up and ing deal with it.
If Spurs fired Pop do you know how many NBA teams would instantly fire their head coach to hire Pop.
Spurs will not fire Pop but I sense sometimes Pop knows it.
Pop is both GM and coach though his personal secretary RC Buford assumes the GM position (takes phone calls, makes coffee, collects enormous paychecks) while Pop is the acting coach. The only person who can theoretically fire him is himself.
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Everything about the organization reeks. The medical staff is incompetent after misdiagnosing Kawhi, Danny, and Pau. The talent pool is depressing. Career loser Softridge and choke artist Defrozen as your top two players. Not a single defensive wing on the roster. No real playmaker either. They play an antiquated style of bball while the rest of the league has evolved. They stash picks that never come over because those guys receive better salaries in Europe. The coaching staff is the worst it's ever been. Ass-kissers that refuse to move on because they're waiting for an ideal coaching opportunity(Becky) or just trying to outlast Pop and take over the team itself(Messina). Once upon a time, this franchise was great from top to bottom. They're now a shadow of what they once were due to talent drain(Duncan, Manu, Parker, Kawhi, Danny) and brain drain(Bud, Forcier, Brett, Marks).
I don’t understand why poop continues to coach. He doesn’t care about coaching, he hates the modern style of basketball, and he seems more interested in politics than coaching at this point. Maybe he should run for the Texas US Senate seat in 2020.
We lost manu, we lost the team...manu4ever tbh...
I think pop and buford dropped the ball on where the league was headed with the new rules. Pop hasn't been able to adjust. Losing Murray meant we lost our pace. We can't defend, and when they miss, we can't rebound.
Poop could shoot someone on the riverwalk and keep his job tbh... His supporters love him...tbh
http://www.espn.com/nba/story/_/id/2...-roughed-again
Pop looks finished. Sad to see.
fire pop. i'm willing to bring back kawhi and uncle dennis can be the coach
A pe ion of say, 100,000 Spur fan signatures would probably get the job done, I think.
We would if Murray and Walker and Paul were healthy happens. Stop being such a pussy.
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