When you have the worst D in NBA history sans Wemby you need to improve tbh.D is whatever, there's only so much you can do in this pussy ass league. But it being 2024 and not having competent shooting is unforgivable
That only works for Wemby and 2months were enough to know.
No need of a year of data collection to see that Tre Jones isn’t an NBA caliber PG or that the whole roster is deprived of passing abilities.
No need to purposely handicap your once a generation gift by handicapping him unnecessarily with no veterans or anyone able to pass him the ball
This PATFO narrative is getting ridiculous
I mean...
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U have to judge someone right now... Or else we just suit up MJ and get him back in the league... There comes a point where coaches become basketball senile... Pop has been that since trading for DDR... it's only magnified this season
Exactly... Throwing away an entire season to figure out something we could have told them after 20 games is poor coaching... If this were someone else other than pop, they'd have been fired by the trade deadline
If Adam Silver didn’t pull strings in our favor we would be stuck with Poop and Scoot. While Victor would be averaging 25 next to Lamelo or Sengun.
96-90 he leaves his man and then stands around not guarding anyone. I mean he's standing in one place guarding the floor.
Poof wide open 3 pointer for Houston.
Next came the shot clock violation which again seemed like he was throwing it.
I guess since he made the 2 FTs at the end he wasn't. Sure looked fishy tho.
How about that final attempt when Spurs had a chance with a good / lucky intentional missed FTA?
FFS is Vassell really that inaccurate? Or was he jealous again, worried Wama might get the rebound and put in the shot to tie the game and force OT.
"throwing away an entire season"
are people saying rookie Wemby could content for a ring right now with different realistic cir stances? and are we saying rookie Wemby is a top 3 option in this hypothetical rookie Wemby NBA Championship San Antonio Spurs team? is that historically commonplace league wide?
if pop was deviating from a franchise wide consensus, a board, staff, and roster monolithic LOCKSTEP
he would've been fired before the deadline, the first month. easy
Pop losing at home to the Warriors with no Steph and the Rockets with no Sengun. Adjusting to the Rockets “Stop Wemby” game plan by having Dom Barlow and Blake Wesley space the floor for him just sums up how cognitive our coach is.
Taylor Jenkins on the other hand has 9 more wins with a G-League roster. Won a game tonight with a starting lineup of Jemison, Aldama, Konchar, Goodwin, and Kennard.
Not even Michael Jordan could make the playoffs with a senile coach as terrible as Pop has been since 2018. He would have slapped Pop at the season opener if he got pulled at the 7 minute mark of the first quarter.
No, we're saying it would have been nice to put something next to Victor for the team to grow together. Maybe Vassell or Sochan is good enough to still be on this team next to Victor in three years but neither really jump out at you as a core piece.
i was at the game and saw the made three and the end thought they tied it. the stadium was loud as during the call explanation.
Anyone explain what happened?
I believe it was 4 seconds left, Spurs down 3. The Rockets fouled Vassell with both hands (classic end-of-game foul), then Vassell took a couple steps, turned around and shot a three. Three went in, but it was obviously after the foul call. Don't blame the crowd for their reaction, but it was clearly not in the act of motion. And of course Vassell does not know how to miss the last freethrow (made the first one, but the last one did not even touch rim - just went all board and that's it), and we don't have a chance to do a tip in or a shot to tie the game following the last freethrow. This team when it disappoints, it really disappoints (just like the Sacramento game).
These last 2 games, we still lost to squads without their best player.. that sucks. Story of the season.
Rockets players told the refs they were intentionally fouling, so they called a foul on the slightest of touches to Vassell. Only way to counter this would have been to run a play so whoever gets it, catches and shoots it right away. The entire world saw them fouling, except for Poop. Devin gave them a chance to foul him for two free throws when we’re down 3, because he had to dribble once to get his shot off.
Didn't need the gratuitous stupidity about whose fault it was. BTW prison is full of people that think with that same paradigm of fault and blame.
The play was for Wemby but it was well covered by rockets. Wemby set a screen then broke for the three, positioning his body to face the hoop. The pass must be at chest height so Wemby could go straight into his shot. A high pass would mean the foul would happen on the floor. Because the pass was covered, Spurs gave to vassell.
Now vassell has a bad game. So did Wemby. And we were right in it. That's pretty decent coaching.
love to see Pop getting outcoached again. You know he would never ever foul while being up 3 as we witnessed in the 2013 finals
Pop’s rotation decisions have been bad for quite a while. However, it’s disconcerting how bad his X’s and O’s decision making is now too. He used to have pretty good ATO and late game plays.
I still can't believe there isn't some purpose in those (bad) decisions. Maybe the Spurs really want the bottom 3 and don't want to risk winning too many games.
Had Pop called a TO or put Victor back earlier vs the Dubs when they made a run/gap we'd have won that game imo.
Houston was really bad yesterday as well
Pop just can't be that bad, it's just doesn't make sense to me
If you replace Wemby with any other le contender 2nd best player are they worse, better, or the same?
Denver, replace Murray with Wemby
Boston, replace Brown with Wemby
OKC, replace Chet with Wemby
Bucks, replace Dame with Wemby
I would say every championship contender would be either the same or bette if they replaced their number 2 player with Wemby. Because their number 2 player is not as good a defender as he is and isn't going to generate the amount of open looks for others that he does.
He can absolutely be that bad.
What doesn't make sense is jumping through all these mental gymnastics to try and rationalize why a awful coach mad bad decisions, when it's clearly because they are an awful coach.
Pop is in his 70's. Never seen a 70 year do anything and think to myself "this person is at the top of their game right now". All 70 year old coaches would be bad. Pop is no exception.
It doesn’t make sense.
you can’t just unlearn stuff, you can’t suddenly do rookie mistakes on a regular basis when ur a veteran etc
As bad as this roster is, if Pop doesn’t coach badly or passively here and there were out of the bottom 5
With Wemby getting comfortable and efficient the risk of wining is too high if u add teams like Memphis or Toronto who had seaosn ending injuries Spurs could even fight for the play-ins with a little bit of coaching effort
Pop is annoying af and I have plenty of criticism toward him, but he’s not an idiot.
that makes it 99% chance he’s doing it on purpose imo
He put the ball down (dribbled) before shooting. No continuation.
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