If only the business were that easy. Unfortunately players and agents run this league and San Antonio is in no position to alienate future free agents. Just the game you gotta play I guess.
I'm a bit confused by this. Isn't he contractually obligated to play, if his team clears him to play and he passes all the league standards / thresholds? It seems strange that a private entity is able to keep him from playing, due to a subjective assertion.
its by far not even the lack of effort. its the lack of level of talent to actually match GS. theres only so much "effort" can do.
Kawhi Leonard is a joke. I know Popovich is 69 years old but the Spurs need to tear this down and rebuild. There just isn't any real talent outside of Leonard, and he is joke. The Spurs are relying on bench players with marginal talent to try and win games, and I don't care how well coached they are, they are still marginally talented players. Deal Aldridge (who is overrated to begin with) and other pieces and just start over.
I agree that they should trade LMA too. But after Pop's glowing praise of LMA for Game 2, I dont know how he can trade him without getting inundated with huge bad publicity for the spurs organization, especially after this Kawhi drama.
http://www.msn.com/en-us/sports/nba...ning-the-team/ar-AAvXn53?li=BBnb7Kz&ocid=iehp Oh San Antonio.......
Pop's social justice crap is annoying. Hating on Trump is fine(half the country always loathes the sitting President these days), but b-tching about "white privilege" and calling the country racist? Last time I checked, San Antonio is a pretty diverse town. It's not like the dude coaches in Salt Lake City. All that being said, let's be honest. Spurs fans who are tuning out are doing more so because their team finished in 7th place and their star player has apparently quit on the organization. The 20-year run(almost 30 years if you go back to the Robinson days) is coming to a close and the pickins is slim going forward.
Pop is one of my favorite coaches, but I'm just shocked by how terrible he is at ego management and strategic communication. Now he's firing passive aggressive shots at his best player, alienating him even more. Makes you think... If he didn't land Duncan, Pop might have washed out of the league a long time ago. The butterfly effect.
I'm actually ok with what Pop did. The Kawhi relationship has to be irreparable at this point. The players went directly to the press and said he wasn't coming back(i.e. he quit). Pop has repeatedly referred any questions about his status to "his group". And Kawhi won't even travel with the team. Why even hide it anymore? Everyone knows he'll never suit up for the Spurs again. As far as Pop lucking into Duncan, he did. If the ping pong balls had bounced the way everyone anticipated, Rick Pitino would've looked like a coaching genius and Pop would've eventually gotten sh-tcanned and replaced by Doc Rivers(as he nearly was in early 1999). But that's not to say he hasn't been a great coach and occasional GM for that organization for 2 decades.
Nonsense. I watched TNT and they said if you throw the ball down low to Aldridge every time it's BBQ Chicken and the Spurs would win by 30. Post Ups > 3's according to their analytics.
I know the talent is definitely lacking... But I'm surprised at how little Pop is scheming. Which is usually his forte. Like what is he trying to do at the moment defensively. He usually picks a way to get beat, and schemes it so that way is typically the hardest way for the opponent. What's the plan, I wonder, talent issues aside?
