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Obviously I love Phil. But he had more to work with. Pops seems to constantly find players who buy into his system, play great defense and seamless offense. Also, his use of minutes to rest his old vets in the regular season to get them ready for this is nothing short of brilliant.
I'm a huge fan of John Wooden and a few other college coaches, but this is something else entirely. The skill of play is so much higher than any college basketball game that I really can't agree with you. I think if I were listed the 30 greatest basketball coaches of all time, the first 10 at least would have to be NBA coaches.
I don't think it was as easy as we think. I remember the Kobe/Shaq stuff that finally sent Shaq out of LA. To get high egos to mesh together with one thinking he's "God" at the age of 18 cannot be easy. I like Phil's style of thinking and coaching. I don't know how many times I was yelling at the tv back in the day when he was with the Lakers to call a time out or take out someone with too many fouls. He'd just sit there cool as a cucumber and let them work it out even in key games which I've never seen any other coach do.
Pop doesn't get to play College of Charleston and a 9 seed to get through 1/3 of their championship run.
Vogel's staying.
I don't know. I think they need a defensive minded coach. Also, how in the hell can Danny Green guard Durant?
They wanted roster flexibility going forward because if you have Durant, Westbrook, Harden and Ibaka you are not allowed to trade any of them in the future if it doesn't work out.
They chose Perkins over Harden. The didn't want to pay to amnesty Perkins. They could have paid all 4 and still been under the luxury tax. To save $12million, they cost themselves a chance to compete for at least two championships.
The max deals aren't something that the union would fight strongly. How many players does that really affect? Maybe a dozen?They wanted roster flexibility going forward because if you have Durant, Westbrook, Harden and Ibaka you are not allowed to trade any of them in the future if it doesn't work out.
It is amazing that the players got locked out and settled for less. They had all the leverage. It was obvious. Live sporting events equals advertising dollars. Amateur hour. Once the players union get's their house in order labor unrest is on the forefront. They will win too. Salary cap will go way up as well as max deals.
Think J. Ellsbury makes more then Lebron. Market correction coming.
Yeah, I don't know if college coaches can handle a faster car so to speak.
Classic Fish going for the flop call on the Duncan screen and giving Ginobli a wide open look.
No. They chose not to use their Gilbert Arenas option on Perkins over keeping Harden. That's what makes it worse.
I wouldn't want him to be a Knick... He isn't a winner and his antics and immaturity will never give any team that extra nudge to be a champion. He is a solid player on the court nonetheless, but I just don't think he is worth it, not even close.
It'll look a lot better if Tony Parker is anywhere near 100%. Keeping fingers crossed, since that's probably important just to have a good series.
Agreed.
And whether it's rightly deserved will come down to his personal play. If he plays like the greatest player on the planet, and yet his team outclassed that's one thing. Maybe Dwayne Wade ends up getting a migraine and can't play in Game 7, but he still scores 31 points, dishes out 9, grabs 8 boards with the entire Spurs team focused on him. And the team loses by 20. That's no detriment to Lebron. Coming out like he did against the Mavericks, like he didn't care about being there since his team was outclassed, well that's a different beast.
Symbiotic relationship. TD is First ballot but Pops helped him a lot. Goes both ways.
Nobody is going to try and call Kevin Durant the greatest player of all time. And besides, Kevin Durant has received quite a bit of criticism in these playoffs. That goes along with playing under your capabilities while your team loses.
This post is hidden because you have chosen to ignore posts by DrJ. View it anyway?Only in your world is 22-9-8 (his 2010 Game 4 statline against Boston) considered "complete crap."
And you wonder why almost no one is taking your posts seriously here anymore.
22 points on 18 shots (.389 shooting), 7 turnovers, and a sub 15 GmSc (13.8) since Tobias likes that measure I guess. Yes, that's a bad performance. As Tobias noted, Jordan only had 17 sub 15 GmSc games in his entire 179 game playoff career, so this is going to rank in the bottom 10% of his performances including when he had come back the 2nd time and wasn't even as good. I'm not judging this by normal human being standards, I'm judging this by GOAT standards. And with performances like that - you lose. Jordan just dropped 45 and made you look stupid.Only in your world is 22-9-8 (his 2010 Game 4 statline against Boston) considered "complete crap."
And you wonder why almost no one is taking your posts seriously here anymore.
