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Pop, Manu, and Tim are retiring. We're bringing in Scott Brooks as coach. Parker is getting a 5 year extension. 3-79 next season.
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Pop, Manu, and Tim are retiring. We're bringing in Scott Brooks as coach. Parker is getting a 5 year extension. 3-79 next season.
Manu is gone...
I prefer Spo, TBH.
As much as we about his decisions we're lucky as to have Pop. He's the best.
As much gloom and doom that's going around here, we'll still be contenders next year. We may not know how to defend les but we certainly know how to bounce back from defeat and win les after le defense failures.
So full of himself, ing loser, he didn't care this season, didn't had motivation, should have step aside for one year and let Messina do the job but he's too proud, he cost us another le, him, he's the worst compe or outside of all coaches!
True. Next year we're not defending le. Yay! It means we'll be under the radar and thats when we play better.
Pop is still far and away the best coach in the league. Doesn't mean he didn't have the worst series of his career against the Clippers.
Honestly, the more I think about it, he didn't sound like he had the drive for another deep run this year. Probably the same for most of the players. Can't really blame em tbh.
It's really easy to forget where the Spurs were as a franchise before Pop came to the bench.
Think about it this way -- there were 20 NBA seasons for the Spurs before Pop became head coach; those included 4 runs to the conference finals (1979, 1982, 1983, and 1995). In that time, the Spurs won 8 playoff series. Total.
Just in the last 4 seasons (2012-2015) the Spurs have won 9.
Over the first 20 years of the franchise's NBA existence, it participated in 24 total playoff series.
During Pop's reign, the Spurs have won 34 playoff series (and participated in 47).
Tim Duncan is very much the key reason for all of that success, but for all the flak that Pop takes around here, the things that have happened for the Spurs during his tenure are absolutely remarkable and he's been a significant part of making that success happen.
Cause you have pussy coach!
Maybe time to hang it up then. Or bring in a new coach and just have Pop do the GM stuff.
Probably explains the poorly coached series. Cant blame him. Outside of Duncan, Leonard early in the series, and Patty, no one on the team looked right
This is the end
You think? Definitely not without Duncan no matter who they sign. And replacing Ginobili will be a , I mean it doesn't sound like there is any way Manu is back next year.
Two months extra rest this year for all the old and injured guys. Wait, is Parker and/or Manu going to be playing for their country this summer?
I have no doubt TD is coming back next season. Manu's replacement will be a but getting Aldridge will more than shore up other problem areas for us and something tells me Manu would at least consider coming back for one of those veteran comes back to play after the ASG type deals that Ray Allen almost did this year.
If Duncan retires, they're cooked. The odds on that are about 15-1 (against retirement).
Hopefully, Gino will stay. He should give all of his fans (and critics) one year warning before he retires.
The Spurs love to raise the tightrope a little higher each time to cheat their critics. It'll probably happen again.
I'd be shocked to see Manu make a half return like that, nothing about the way he plays suggests he could ever just chill until the middle of the year. And Aldridge would require a salary dump of Splitter for nothing (assuming he'd be easier to move than Diaw). I can't see Portland taking him back in a sign and trade for Aldridge.
Like I said yesterday, I think this team was just out of gas after 3 straight years of making deep runs in the playoffs, including two trips to the Finals. It really is incredibly difficult and mentally fatiguing to do what they've done. I'm not surprised at all we lost in the first round to a really good Clippers team (the best offensive team in the league, statistically speaking) with two stars in their prime. Pushed them to 7 without HCA. It was just time for a break imo.. some much-needed and well-deserved rest.
I also think that losing this early in the playoffs gives us a better chance at making a run next year. It'll still be a long shot, but it gives us a chance at a much longer summer (45 extra days), and gives PATFO more time to try and figure out a game plan.
Of course this all hinges on whether Duncan, Kawhi, and Danny all come back, and we're able to at least somewhat replace Manu's production off the bench. If Tim were to retire along with Manu, then all bets would be off and we'd probably sink to the depths of the Western Conference, tbh.
He needs to come back for the records...
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