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Hope POP will go to watch this video and learn from his poor rotation...
Hope POP will go to watch this video and learn from his poor rotation...
This video in a nuts "Donovan using the vanilla towers gave the thunder unlimited second chance points that broke the spurs back. Spurs could have ran more pick and roll to get Kanter off the court but even when they did Donovan still kept him out there so it's no guarantee it would have worked. Kawhi and LMA ran too many iso plays while the bench relied on ball movement but couldn't hit shots."
Pop had no one to intentionally foul and when he tried he couldn't even do that.
Basically Pop became Poop
Ouch...video hurts...but it's true...Donovan out-coached POP this series...
Adams hurt the Spurs...but Adams is a terrible free throw shooter...a liability on the floor....Hack-A-Adams.....
I think eeeennnnuuuusss Kanter is the OKC match up the spurs need to worry about...well...besides Westbrook....
Good review. Glad he mentioned the officiating giving the edge to OKC in Game 2 & 5.
He was basically saying that if we would gone after Kanter more in the pick-n-roll we would have hurt them because Kanter was a defensive liability.
Enus is a defensive liability on motion offense..GS is gonna find that out really quick..but it was the Kanter/Adams tandem that hurt the Spurs..not just Kanter....
I still shaking my head about that pathetic and soft rebounding game spurs played, warriors small ball lineup with green at center will give a better fight on rebound and would get out with less damage, just pathetic how soft and naive our team is and how that keep costing us les...
Great analysis, but kinda glossed over how terrible the bench played.
One great point was how successful the PnR was against Kanter. Should've kept attacking that to force Donovan to abort that lineup.
So here's the outcoaching....Dovan "i see your not going to play a legit C, pop, are you for real?"
Pop "David west and diaw and fine"
Donovan "kool, i got tons of weird white bigs and of course that weird african dude"
Pop "david west and diaw are fine"
The other coaching argument i have seen "why didn't pop go small sooner" which is equal to "why didn't pop try his other players, you know the tier ones"
Sad but the truth
For the second year in a row we soft our way out of the compe ion... Someone should open a thread about why spurs keep wetting their pants come playoff time and how to fix it!!!!!!!!!!!
Attacking someone's weakness is not Pops style. That would fall in line with him making adjustments which he doesn't. He just always says they made shots, they played harder.
Pop just runs system system system. Why do you think he always says he's never worried about what other teams are doing? And that he's always only concerned about what his team does.
It wasn't a matter of effort or toughness. Asking West and Diaw to out-rebound centers is like asking Tony and Patty to guard Russ and KD.
Pop. That's it. That's the reason.
I thought that rebounding was terrible all series and second chance points that IKC got off that rebounding was their winning edge.
Pop really is stubborn.
So if we were to delete Pop from the equation, and plug in another decent coach, the Spurs win that series?
I'm a big fan of Pop's, but sometimes feel like he isn't playing to win. I got the feeling that when he saw Tim struggling he didn't see us going far. He knew David West couldnt match up at Center, but he kept playing him until we lost. I't's hard to imagine why he didn't go ballistic when we got ed multiple times by the refs- calls that cost us the games. Game 5 was a win if they call the intention flagrant foul by Adams. Game 2 the same if they call the obvious elbow into Manu. He kind of said something game 2, but not much.
Well.....duh
You're an idiot. It was 100% because of this.It wasn't a matter of effort or toughness. Asking West and Diaw to out-rebound centers is like asking Tony and Patty to guard Russ and KD.
The losses that the Spurs had early in the regular season were accented by going at our center rotation. As the season progressed teams tended to do that so much as Boban actually became a factor. Donovan simply did what other teams tried to do early on. The requirement to play West because he gave up so much is why the Spurs are on the outside looking in. Either West or Diaw but not both at the same time. Bonner's spot was a waste, as well, which could have been used for another center.
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