What's Next Pop?

Spurs shot very poorly from three, missed a lot of FTs and arguably their third-best scorer in Mason put up a fat goose egg.

Then again, Terry surely can’t keep sucking. The fact that others have stepped up with the Spurs limiting JET and Dirk probably shows Dallas has too many offensive weapons for San Antonio to handle. J-Ho and the centers have been X-Factors and they’ve come up big.

I was talking to a friend who is a Spurs fan telling him how much I respected Pops and he told me that he didn’t really like Popovich – and that it was a shame that he turned out to be a good coach.

I had completely forgotten how that came to be. I’m guessing most know the story but a quick refresher for those like me.

Bob Hill was coming off a loss in the Western Conference Semifinals but started the 1996-1997 season 3-16 – but mainly because David Robinson, Sean Elliott, Chuck Person, and Vinnie Del Negro were all injured. Instead of realizing that the injuries had to do with the poor start, the GM fires Hill and hires Pops as coach. That move is pretty retarded. But it gets much worse when you find out that the the GM was Pops himself. and then Pop goes on to coach that team to 20-62 record.

Obviously Pops did turn out to be a pretty good coach but still – total dick.

Just heard 1920’s reporter guy with Popovich. That Gribble has some stones.

that Dirk and Jet haven’t done a thing in this series yet.

at the same time, it seems like a younger, more athletic team would be able to do this AND stop the role players from scoring as much. Maybe not Josh, but the others.

We should be optimistic though right? I mean, a lot of firsts here in this series: first time the Spurs were held to that low point total in a game, first time Duncan’s played that horribly, and should be the first time they are out in the 1st round since 2000

maybe he cant be out couched. Maybe the “heart of the champion spurs” are mentally tough. this matters so minimally. this edge they have is flawed. Why? because look at that old ass team missing one key guy depending on 2 studs.. LOOK AT THOSE FOOOLS OVER THERE

We rowdy mavs fan should be pumped and bloodthirsty. if you take the POP magic outta the equation, well then we should be salivating looking at a team WE KNOW we can dominate against. so lets ignore pop completely and finish the job and say peace out these relics of A rapidly fading “half-a-dynasty”

but are the spurs making JET miss all of those wide open jumpers and blow layups… he is pissin me off

I, for one, am extremely happy that he kept passing out of those double teams. Dirk’s become an incredible passer over the past couple years… doesn’t really show up in the stat sheet, but I’ve been impressed at how often he’s found an open guy either on the opposite wing for three or down on the block when he gets doubled.