Remember who you are talking to. It is futile talking to haters.
Is Popovich the most overrated coach in all the history of sports?
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Remember who you are talking to. It is futile talking to haters.
If Spurs had won the series the likes of zman would have shouted that the quick pulling out of role layers is the exact reason why Popoivch is a great coach and how he doesnt stick to substitution patters and blah..blah..blah
You can twist any crap any way you want to based on how it suits your argument. Thats what this board shows again annd again.
And when everything else fails and all points brought out by the haters are beaten to pulp, they go back and hide behind the rings argument. How rich and imaginative.
Except when he's up 18 points in game six, after blowing the previous three in a row.
Glad so many of you are on the carolinajazz bandwagon here.
I can't tell if you agree with me, just seems like he should have had more faith in the players that had gotten the team to where it was. I know he is praised for his willingness to sub whoever and whenever, but I think it can be a bad idea in a lot of cases.
Yup, I am gonna "hide behind the rings argument" every time. LMAO. WTF else matters dude?
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Popovich is a great coach, don't kid yourself guys.
If you had grown a brain by now you would realize that more than just good coaching it also takes the right personnel and staff and ownership and all that to pull it all off.
Just last week you were orgasming over Popovich I bet. He got outcoached badly or so it seems in the last 1 week. Did he suddenly turn into a mediocre coach in this 1 week or is it got to do with talent?
Think, think....
Not to mention luck. The balls break a litle differently in 1998, and its Boston who had a another couple of championships. Portland does a better job guessing Oden's tendency to be injured, and Oklahoma is thought of as a perennial loser.
Never said that talent did not matter; that would be crazy. Pop got out-talented with with 1 star and 2 aging stars and a bunch of nobodies. But when his stars were in their prime he got what, 5 rings was it? Unlike Ol'Jer.
Well did Pop get to coach against the best player to ever play the game playing for arguably the best coach since Auerbach? Did he coach at a time when there were as many hall-of-fame talents as there were in the mid to late 90s? You'll never know if Pop would have won it all if he had coached the Jazz 97 or 98 team. So spare us the same old rings crap. And BTW, Pop got his behind whipped many times in the early 2000s by the Lakers when Duncan was in his prime. That choke job in 2004, just like now,comes to mind immediately. (But I don't hold all that against Pop when I call him a great coach).
And even assuming that Sloan slightly falls short of Pop it is'nt a shame, It doesn't make him "just another coach" like your dumb post suggested.Because Sloan is widely regarded to be in the same league as Pop and these other guys regardless. Even if he is'nt, he is still a very very good coach at the least. You seem to think that if a coach isn't as good as Phil Jackson or Popovich, then he is just another average coach like Vinny Del Negro or someone like that.
The Spurs did get some championships against some pretty pathetic Eastern Conference opponents.