I told y'all muh'fukkas that Pop's being left behind.....

[Gil Scott-Heroin]

The casuals in this thread saying that the Spurs didn’t have a talent problem while looking at their best team in over a decade is hilarious. All of that jibber jabber about style of play just because they want to pretend they’re not disrespecting an elderly man dealing with a serious illness.

Who also happens to be one of the greatest coaches of time.

The two goofiest posters (and haters of black athletes, especially black Americans ) in the entire forum @Remote and @Gil Scott-Heroin

In the first breath, you're clutching your pearls over what you believe to be 'disrespect of an elderly [white] man, dealing with an illness', then in the next breath, you're pulling this nonsense about hating Black athletes.

Do you even realize how stupid you sound?

Your cosplaying snake oil salesman ass can't even keep up the agendas you're trying to pedal. Go and get your Dissociative Identity Disorder addressed and stop using this board as your therapy.

 

[Remote]

The casuals in this thread saying that the Spurs didn’t have a talent problem while looking at their best team in over a decade is hilarious. All of that jibber jabber about style of play just because they want to pretend they’re not disrespecting an elderly man dealing with a serious illness.

Who also happens to be one of the greatest coaches of time.

Its par for the course as they do the same thing to Kobe.

The two goofiest posters (and haters of black athletes, especially black Americans ) in the entire forum @Remote and @Gil Scott-Heroin

It takes a special kind of idiot to connect a critique of a coaching style…to racism and Kobe Bryant.

You truly live a sad and pathetic life.

 

[Don Homer]

This is an example of a post I made a year after this thread was created -

This squad was going in the opposite direction to the rest of the league.

I'm sure I outlined this to you a handful of times in this thread that it wasn't about them necessarily making the playoffs or not (that's only reductive of the greater picture), it was the fact that a once innovative, transcendent coach, who could turn water into wine, was struggling to adapt to the changes in the league and it was stopping the franchise from moving forward.

It was clear as day that what Pop was doing wasn't working and yet he still refused to move with the times.

No great example when there were concerns raised when Wemby was taking 3s last season, with many questioning if Pop was still coaching if he would've allowed him to take those shots, but as we've come to see, Wemby being able to stretch the floor and teams treating him as a deep ball threat has not only made him a far more dangerous and effective player but it's aided in spacing for the lineups he's in to maximize offensive opportunites. And that simply wasn't a philosophy that the Spurs offense lived by when Pop was HC during his last years.

i cant say if Pop would/wouldn't have made wemby take threes. Maybe he would have, we'll never know for sure. But he did let Wemby shoot a bunch of threes per season when he was a rookie

I can imagine the spurs starters didn't shoot threes all that much. DeRozan and Lamarcus are midrange guys. For what it's worth, in the 2018-19 season, they were ranked 7th in offensive rating.

But maybe you're right. Spurs choosing a young new coach instead of an old veteran coach was the right decision it seems. The Suns have the same thing going on with Ott after firing Vogel and Bud

 

[threattonature]

Well he went and got DeRozan, played to his strengths…mostly a midrange game…and mostly lost.

So Popovich playing to the strengths of his roster (or perhaps more accurately, constructing the roster according to his theory of how to win) did not work.

My point is that a good coach will cater his team's play style to the roster around them for those seasons didn't focus on putting up a lot of threes because they didn't have a roster good at it. Hell by 2023-24 season the Spurs were 11th in the league in 3 point attempts. In 2021-22 they were 8th. Pop of all great coaches has shown himself to be the one most willing to change his team's style of play based on the roster. It's crazy to pinpoint a few years where he had a roster constructed of players not known for 3 point shooting and say the game passed him by especially when after those years he bounced back and started having his teams shoot a lot more 3s. The only problem is by that point they didn't have the talent to make use of him being more welcoming of his teams shooting more 3s.