KobesAchilles lets his emotions blind him sometimes rather than him listening to his brain, but he's a true Spurs fan
This is with regards to KobeAchilles claiming White never finishes games.
KobesAchilles lets his emotions blind him sometimes rather than him listening to his brain, but he's a true Spurs fan
obviously does not exist
I watched the beginning of last year then got fed up with the line ups and stopped for my sanity. I just don’t remember us having a line up of White, Demar, LMA, Gay, and Forbes to close out the games. I remember Patty closing out a lot of games tbh.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hT4MVl9E7zM
First game of the season White is in the closing lineup.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VlFDGMqvvng
Second game of the season.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MjBtDw7lfuU
Third game.
Yeah, White closed a lot while DJM was working his way back. It's just that when Murray was closing, White wasn't and vice-versa.
I was mostly wrong after looking back at it, but I figured out why my memory was what it was. Just by searching I found 5 games he was underutilized in the 4th quarter in the first quarter of the season. He was hurt 3 games. And he had low 4th quarter minutes in 3 other games that were complete blow outs so I didn't count those out of fairness to you.
Rockets he played 2 minutes in the 4th.
Lakers they took him out at the 9 minute mark and put him back in with 1 minute to go and game over.
Atlanta he didn't play the 4th at all. Was he hurt?? I don't know but he did play almost the entire 3rd quarter.
Dallas he played 1 minute and Sacramento he played 3 minutes.
5 games, plus the 3 he missed plus an additional 3 games where we got the brakes beat off of us. That's a total of 11 games (roughly half the first quarter of the season) which is probably why I remember him not really playing much in the 4th in the beginning of the season. Also looking back, White was invisible in a lot of games in the 4th quarter. I hope he comes out guns blazing to start the year once he's healthy
I think the fact they gave him that extension and fell further in love with his character and how he defended the franchise after Kawhi sunk them (specially showing up to rehab and stay with the coaching staff all season learning from video sessions) made Pop commit harder to seat him back as a starter. They gave him a hefty contract. And while Dejounte’s skills were still super raw, he had moxie and crazy confidence. Meanwhile White, an older, more polished and skilled player lacked some confidence and hesitated. Pop unseating him from his prior role probably affected his confidence even if it happened subconsciously. Pop didn’t help either player with his choice and he easily could have explained Dejounte’s benching as him coming back, easier to manage his minutes etc. He was treated as a star, a proven starter because of that contract and Pop’s confidence in him. I was pretty happy when he got paid because he looked great in preseason and I expected him to sustain that (and with time build upon it and improve, not a crazy hope considering he had only really Gad a single full season back then—again in hindsight a small sample). But I have waffled and thought it was a mistake on hindsight but of course hindsight is always right. It’s not just that it was too much, but that it was pretty premature.
Anyways, that’s passed and Bryn is gone and hopefully Murray’s deal doesn’t hinder minutes for Vassell, White or Johnson when they are back.
Last edited by SAGirl; 12-15-2020 at 02:37 AM.
Agree that Pop was awful on multiple fronts last year. The bubble gave me hope but then players have been saying (isn’t Murray among them?) that he just let them play free and not scheme and do whatever.
So many eyes are going to be opened when Pop retires and a black cloud is lifted over the entire franchise
No game day thread? I'm no good at that otherwise I would make one. But c'mon man
Have been saying this for years.
Please stop........ 29 other teams are available for fandom! You don’t have to sit here and enjoy stability & success for two decades!! You deserve better hoss....
Most great coaches ride the success of great players ( you didn’t have to say it because pop always says it )!! Lol
But you do realize plenty of great players never sniffed championships because of subpar coaching right?
Clowns on this board are the only ones hating on pop so hard.......the rest of the leagues/players/coaches must not be as smart as the few on this board, facts be damned!!
ST has a lot of self-proclaimed basketball experts and they're all undefeated.
subpar coaches can win with great players-poop might have screwed Duncan out of more chips.
and if poop is so great how come no good players want to come play for him.
Got no answer sniffers-not to that one.
That drunk ass saw something in Demarre Carrol and gave him a boat load of money
What a ing dumb ass poop is
You can just as easily argue that Pop allowed Duncan to win a plethora of rings, which other coaches couldn't have accomplished. Even a greater talent in LeBum doesn't have as many - a bird in the hand...
Players not wanting to come play in middle-of-nowhere butt Texas town, small market SanAntonio has literally nothing to do with Pop (are you expecting FAs to start coming here once he retires? ).
Pop is not GM and isn't wholly responsible for DMC's signing (nor any signing, for better or worse, he shares the glory and blame with RC/Wright), though he of course is to blame for not playing him and whatnot. Has been discussed ad-nauseum, doesn't mean he's not a good coach whatsoever.
A good chunk of ST posters are irrationally and unnecessarily angry at Pop for the pettiest reasons, tbh. He isn't infallible and has never claimed to be. Yet he's a constant scapegoat here. Gets old.
You are arguing with someone who is calling a renowned Hall of Fame coach "poop" like a goddamn 5-year-old. This is the best they can come up with because they are simply trolling for a reaction.
Don't waste your time with these idiots.
not to mention, that there are a few ST posters whose disdain for Pop just happened to coincide with Pop airing out his political views on the trump administration.
Thinking that old drunk does not approve everything
Playing Forbes
Not able to handle #2
Hitching his wagon to DDR
Getting used by Morris giving away Davis signing Lyles (not bad given the cir stances WHICH he created) and Carroll
The stench he is responsible for hangs over the young players holding them down.
Yeah he great alright
Great at coattailing off the a great one.
Slurpers slurping for the said same political reasons stated
It is what it is. Time will pass and he finally move on. Things will settle down then. He should have left with Tim like he said he was gonna do.
You're absolutely right, tbh, it was just low hanging fruit... Hard to resist the bait.
Flopovich fits way better
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