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Quit and let PJ run the team.
If I were Coach Pop:
1. Start Manu and have Devin Brown come in as sub, play Barry as a sub for Bowen.
2. Play Nazr longer than Rasho. The Spurs were down by 6pts in the 3rd, then Horry & Rasho came to finish the 3rd and before you know it, the Spurs were down by 16pts at the end of the 3rd.
3. Hit somebody. Sonics, for the 2nd game in a row, punched the Spurs in the mouth while the Spurs "turned the other cheek". I know the Spurs are fine gentlemen and very "faithful" christians and all, but c'mon...enough of this "turn the other cheek" stuff. Hit somebody. They hit our guards when we got into the paint, but our bigs refused to do the same to the Sonics guards. I think I saw Luke fall on the floor twice the entire game. I think part of this is because of Tim Duncan's reluctancy to put some wood on AD. And AD knows it. AD knows Tim won't put any physical presence on him at all because, "hey, we're friends...right AD?" Well you can be sure AD could care less about TD's friendship...AD has a game to win. It's time for Tim to realize this and stop with the preferential treatment of AD in the paint. Off with the gloves.
I think Popovich made some real questionable coaching moves this game, most noteably playing Rasho more than Nazr. True, Nazr didn't start the game very well, but while he was on the floor in the 2nd half, the Spurs were down by 6pts. When Horry & Rasho came into the game, that lead quickly turned into 16pts.
What would you do if you were Pop?
Quit and let PJ run the team.
1. the most obvious, start manu.
2. tell timmy that antonio is not his only friend, own him.
3. threathen parker with trade to the hawks if he doesnt get his acts together.
4. bring in brown for longer stretches of time.
5. put t.mass to get some hard fouls, preferably on that little boy that made a fool of us.
6. and give them the same advise that nate gave his team after game two. it seemed to work for two games and all we need are two wins.
hang myself
Play Duncan 40 minutes. (utilize timeouts/tv breaks to get him rest)
Pick and roll seattle to death.
Run plays for tony early, get him into the game, keep him aggressive.
Maybe give Tmass a few minutes.
3 keys to win next game: pace (control the pace), turnover, and rebound.
1.) Parker has to be aggressive (both defensively and offensively - just like what he did in Game 1). Attack Luke, and take his confidence away. Parker has to show his leadership to lead the team (i.e.: calling out play).
2.) Take care of the BALL!! TurnoverS is the key reason why we lost game 4.
3.) Crash the broad! Box out! Limit Sonics 2nd chance points.
I would quit!
or
start with practice for more offensive game.
1.start Rasho, Ginobili and Beno. Parker gets minutes only if amazing so he will be mean enough for the western finals or game 6.
2. give heat to Parker (he was terrible), he obviously needs it
3. Big Dog has to get more minutes in the 2nd and 3rd period.
I would just tell my guys to play bball unlike game 4.
I can almost guarentee you guys that Tony Parker will come out strong and score 20+ points in Game 5. Now, to the changes. Start Manu. It's simple, we need his scoring right away to build a lead. Barry's been bad either way, comming off the bench or not. Start playing Nazr more then 16 and 14 minutes like he did in the two games in Seattle.
If I were Pop, play Glenn more then Brent. Glenn is looking for his shot unlike Barry. Plus Barry's been making too many mistakes on the offensive end, charges and turnovers.
~ Get Dbo back in the rotation, either start him or start Manu and have Devin rotate in. Let Brent rot on the bench where he belongs.
~ Get Tmass back in the rotation, we need his toughness.
~ Preach defense until you're blue in the face!
~ Make sure the Coyote gets ejected to get things really fired up.
H_wabout run a practice. It's inexcuseable that P_p gave his team the damn day _ff Friday.
Guess what P_p, it sh_wed last night.
GIVE them a TASTE of THEIR OWN medicine! Sonics guards are coming into the paint without RECOURSE!
Start Manu, bury Barry on the bench way behind Devin. Remind guys to protect the ball.
Kick Ray Allen square in the vagina.
H_wabout run a practice. It's inexcuseable that P_p gave his team the damn day _ff Friday.
Guess what P_p, it sh_wed last night.classic!
Need to let Mass kill AD and Ray when they go into the lane.
Say what you will, but Manu and TP are not near as aggressive as they were earlier in the series. They are human and they get a little nervous doing something that they know will end up with them getting smashed in the mouth over and over.
I'd get in a refs face and get ejected after the 40th hard fowl on (Insert Spurs players name here)...get the troops riled-up!
You missed an "o" in about, Aggie.
So, you'd rather have PJ coach huh? That will win us another Championship.
I understand Pop screwed up. But saying he has no offensive plays is ludicrous.
put eva in the stands so tony can show up again.
29, 22, 18, 12. ppg.
Start manu
Or Big Dog
Or Devin Brown
Start Rasho and Manu. This should lead to better defense and keep Allen busy on defense.
If Bowen is ineffective against Allen, replace him with Devin for a while. better offense for Spurs.
Let Manu and Tony drive to the basket and get the Sonics bigs in foul trouble. No problem for Manu. Tony might require hypnosis.
Discourage the attack of the midgets with hard but legal fouls.
Can't wait for Devin Brown to play big minutes. If Pop doesn't let Brown play instead of Barry and then lose Game 5, he'll be cursed by everybody. On the other hand, if Brown plays as his usual self but gets injured again at some time, and the Spurs lose in this series or another, no one would blame Pop for letting Brown play prematurely.
Brown didn't seem too limited by injuries in Game 4.
You missed an "o" in about, Aggie.
So, you'd rather have PJ coach huh? That will win us another Championship.
I understand Pop screwed up. But saying he has no offensive plays is ludicrous.
Well, it was the zone defense that PJ begged Pop to use the last championship run, so yeah, there is some truth to that
Correct the 3 problems that cost the losses.
1. FTs(was better in game 4, wish we could have switched FTs in games 3 and 4)
2.defend the Pand R better
3. Turnovers...that killed us
And if we lose the next game regardless, we are going to get swept out of the playoffs.
Might as well take that chance with playing Devin more than Barry because if we stick with playing Barry more and we lose, it will be too late for us to start playing Devin more...might as well shut him down for the season as we will lose the series to the Sonics.
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