DROB27 wrote:manchambo wrote:Phreak50 wrote:Normally I’d tip my hat to someone catching fire like that, but this one definitely is on Pop.
Horrible rotations. Lack of timeouts. Stubbornness.
Excellent rationalization of being a poor sport. Extra points for insulting an all time great coach.
So he doesn’t deserve criticism?
He literally took out the spurs best playmakers at the same time and it completely turned the game around ..
You should be thanking him tbh cause if it wasn’t for his horrible in game management this is a sweep.
The rotations were fine last game because guys hit shots, but somehow poor this game because we didn't. DeMar had two quick fouls and sat most of the first Q. Adjustment. He came out blazing in the second. LMA had trouble scoring last game so we put him out farther a couple of feet so that when he got doubled he passed to the weak side and they had more ground to cover and we got easy shots. LMA also drove faster when he got the ball to vary up his shots and keep them off his rhythm. Adjustment.
Nobody else out side of LMA, Derrick and DeMar had good O games (maybe you can make a case for Beli 3-5 leading the bench with 8). The supporting players **** the bed in executing on O through lack of movement and settling for too many outside shots (particularly not good when we shot only 5-18 from 3). Nobody on the bench scored in double figures (totaled 23 points), and we had only 3 players in double figures overall. The main guys have to rest at some point, so who was to be coming in to save the day?
That and bad end of quarter ball protection and execution saw bad runs against us (ie/16-4 to end the 3rd, and finishing the 4th going 14-17), so defense was an issue as well. We let them get into our key like we didn't in the first half, we didn't rotate well enough to contest their shots. Maybe it was tired legs or whatnot, but when you allow 39 points in a Q you're not winning much of anything.
It's disappointing, but reducing the outcome to one aspect - in this case Pop who also brings out the trumpeting from the woodwork - especially when he was working in both games to makes adjustments, is bizarre. Sometimes they work=genius! and sometimes we don't execute regardless of who's on the floor together=horrible! Listen to the post-game interviews of Pop and the players themselves and hear what they said about the game plan versus how they played.
You cannot be serious.
