tbh, not the first game where he looks pretty disinterested. Closing the game with Tony and Tiago on the bench, while Bonner and Joseph are out there.
CIA Pop trying to get the Lakers in the playoffs to wear down OKC?
Or has he made up his mind that this team won't win if Manu doesn't suit up and it's not worth even trying?
No, but I think he realizes we have no shot this year. HE can only do so much. When you're watching your team constantly underperform and chuck up bricks and fail to execute, you kind of know as a coach that you don't have the talent to compete, so you just let em play and hope they figure something out. There's not much he can do.
Quite clearly, the organization did when they released Jackson. It doesn't matter that he's been the worst player on the team this season or that he was disgruntled. All that matters (or should have, at least), was that he was one of two players they had who could adequately defend the two players who stand between them and a championship. Not keeping him around for insurance spoke volumes and sent a terrible message to the team.
This is a 57 win team this season, that was executing pretty darn well last season... and the talent that's there is talent he brought in... the West is clearly inferior this season too...
Except for Duncan, the team has taken a nosedive in the last month or so. Are they just tired of the RS? How about Pop? Does he care about the stretch run or?
He would rather pay 10 million for an empty chair than have a backup SF on the roster.
So yes.
I'm starting to think so.
Let's be honest, the Heat are supposedly a championship level team now yet their rebounding is the worst in the league. From what I remember championship teams in the past usually were great rebounding teams.
Shows you that what was required to win championships in the past is completely useless now. It's hard getting stops against the Heat because it seems like they only miss like 1-2 shots on average every 5 minutes, they always make everything no matter how well they're being defended.
Yep. I'm starting to think everyone besides Duncan has.
We will see if he plays heroball/Bonner in the playoffs.
IMO, this team (outside of Duncan) doesn't look hungry... and Pop apparently doesn't know how to lit a fire under their assess... like I said a while back when he called them pathetic, is anybody in the team still listening?
Here's to hoping they get their collective heads out of their asses and understand the urgency of the playoffs... because I don't think Pop has it in him to make them understand that anymore.
You think Pop's lost the team? Tbh I was just thinking he realized they didn't have a shot against the Heat and mentally checked out from there. Wouldn't of surprised me if that at ude rubbed off on the rest of them.
Classic Popologist thinking. I give you a 10/10 for this effort, sir. I'm sure Chump & Blake have already put you on the Popper's rookie of the year watch list. Chumpy's even giving his raspberry truffles some extra pizazz for the next meeting I'm told.
So if they lose again with an early exit, will he finally catch heat. Dude has skated from criticism from the last five years of his mad scientist constant line up experimenting, player resting even though we still always end up hurt, chemistry stunting, purposely win streak killing coaching that he's been doing.
He had plenty of equity built up with his 4 rings, ill give him that, but he just seems lost and stubborn with no adjustments ever being made and being out coached.
I would love to be wrong about him though, but I lose hope every time Bonner trots to the scorers table.
Bud needs his shot to shine
he runs plays and plays the right guys
rotations also make sense
Pop should have himself if he thinks hes better then Duncan and Parker and fire himself tbh
This team is built around Tony and Manu running the offense. Without them creating shots for others you get tonight. Stellar play from Duncan, and the rest of the guys I.e. Neal dribbling around chunking shots up. They are who they are. Danny Green isn't turning into Manu after a good night's rest. These are professionals, what do you want Pop to do?
Medina is an LA times guy
even worse news tbh ^
guess he was just in vintage playoff form vs the Lakers
tbh this made me feel better. it would be worse if Pop said something along the lines of "He just doesn't have it, right now. Not sure if rest can fix it."
Spurs have been playing ty many weeks before SJax waived.
SJax was not the key to any post-season success. he was contributing almost nothing all year
I know it might sound weird, but Tony actually played tonight... just saying in case you didn't notice.
EDIT: What I expect Pop to do is have them ready and hungry... not scared to death. Everybody is suddenly scared to shoot.
When does RC bench Pop?
If he had just one of those games, it's fine. The Lakers are a horrible matchup for the Spurs. I won't believe it until I see him moving well though.
playoff parker, here we go
He seemed to be moving well against the Kings Friday night. Now I know it's only the Kings, but Isiah Thomas isnt a slow guy. TP seemed to have a little burst Friday and his J was going down as well...
I saw flashes of MVP Tony, yes, but generally for most of the game he didn't seem to run the court well and he lost his man a couple times. He might've been that good because he had a week off. If he can't play at least that well only having two or three days off, the Spurs are ed.
I've been saying since mid-season this team relies way too much on pick & roll... and by pick & roll, I mean Tony & Tim and Manu & whoever. Tonight it was a lot of nothing, then dump it to Tim and hope he bails you out. Nobody else took charge. As Harlem said, it could either be that they don't have the cojones, or Pop hasn't given them the green light.
Also, that tweet is actually pretty alarming to me, but for another reason: He probably choose not to play Parker and Tiago. Parker because he said he was awful but Tiago? Because his old stubborn ass still thinks the team has more offense with Bonner on the floor, despite all his other shortcomings. To me, seeing he's still willing to sacrifice Tiago for Bonner is alarming with the playoffs right around the corner.
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