Game 14 | Cavs @ Spurs | Saturday, November 23, 2013 | 8:30 PM ET

[JFT]

And we're still one win away from being the eigth seed....the world has already ended.

 

[Rich]

Damn the Spurs scored 126 and no one had more than 17 or less than 6. That goes for all thirteen of them.

It's just all coaching. If you think De Colo or Joseph or Bonner would be productive players on other teams you'd be wrong. Pop is just the best.

 

[Kouki]

It's just all coaching. If you think De Colo or Joseph or Bonner would be productive players on other teams you'd be wrong. Pop is just the best.

Oh yeah I know. I think it's crazy that people think the Spurs are boring to watch. They are like a well-oiled basketball machine.

 

[Stark]

Pop is one of the greatest head coaches in the history of professional sports.

 

[Rich]

I don't know how he does it. He turns every single player into an above average passer and they know exactly who to look for when they are going down the lane. Like every one of them can get into traffic and pass out of it. It's amazing.

 

[Tornicade]

Mike Brown "let talk about the spurs fuck our team " kudos Mike Brown. Kudos.

 

[Rich]

Mike Brown "let talk about the spurs fuck our team " kudos Mike Brown. Kudos.

This is the first time I've ever seen Torn mad at a coach. So I'm dying to know what Mike actually said here.

 

[Birdy89]

What a reward for tonight's blowout.

We get the Heat Wednesday night to rub it in a bit.

 

[Obawan12]

As much praise as Pop gets I actually think he's underrated. He's the best coach of all-time in my book. Granted I know nothing about old-school coaches like Auerbach and some other all-time greats, but I don't see how anybody could be considered better than pop. He gets the best out of his players and he always gets everyone to buy into his system, which is a damn good one on both ends.

I don't even consider this Spurs team top 5 in talent, yet they are a top 3 team. Speaks volumes to his coaching abilities. I was actually just telling my roommate, give Gregg Popovich LeBron and I don't care who else is on the roster, that would be the best team in the league.

 

[blazenmp]

I don't know how he does it. He turns every single player into an above average passer and they know exactly who to look for when they are going down the lane. Like every one of them can get into traffic and pass out of it. It's amazing.

For offense, he teaches, doesn't premeditate the game. You know, gives them the ammo and the training, but lets them play it out. Albeit, he still knows when to sub, make adjustments. Yeah, I'm bashing Grimace when I say these things. A videographer can point out problems in hindsight, but seeing them live instead of being able to it rewind 100 times is a different story.

 

[redscoon]

Our media is so bad. We just got completely eviscerated and a month into the season seem to be getting worse and these clowns only ask questions about what happened in garbage time. The next time somebody puts Brown on the spot about how we have failed to be competitive in almost half the games or how seemingly every player has regressed from last season will be the first. Why is nobody asking why Kyrie looks chronically disinterested? Why Jack only shows up to compete once a week? Why Thompson gets so few plays run from him after he had such a promise early start to the year?

These guys ask the same dumb, softball questions each game. It's almost as maddening as watching Campy and Phelps provide absolutely zero insight into what we just watched. If our team is going to look like garbage, can we at least have a studio and broadcasting crew that aren't worst in the league to boot?

 

[KilgoreTrout]

Pop is one of the greatest head coaches in the history of professional sports.

Except for last spring.

 

[Tornicade]

This is the first time I've ever seen Torn mad at a coach. So I'm dying to know what Mike actually said here.

I used up all my anger first when Scott got fired then again when Brown got hired.

Really though

he was out there telling the mop up crew to push the ball.. hey mike brown why not have your friggin starters push the ball.

If your not gonna let waiters start then put jack in the starting lineup and let Waiters do his thing. its obvious he just gets shit on for doing your thin,

Delladova starting one game made your point. starting him two was just asinine.

Gratz on turning an all star level center back into rotation Scrub.

 

[Meticode]

I can't say I didn't expect this big of a loss. I was at least guessing 20+. The only thing I was impressed with was Bynum. He's growing more and more confiedent every game and you can see the rust coming off at least on his offensive moves.

Other than that, every thing else was completely horrible. The Spurs did exactly what everyone knew they would do and guess what? We couldn't do jack-shit about it.

The Cavaliers look lost on offense as usual in the half court. And you can tell this because Brown was trying to establish moving the ball more up court. Reason being is because he's hoping for easier baskets in transition because he has no idea what to do in the half court except let Irving pound it.

Bennett attacked the rim a couple times, but doesn't look confident at all doing it. The dunk he had was just lucky. He got the ball slapped away like he usually does when he drives it (or loses it) and it just happened to come back to him for the easy put in dunk. Other than that I wasn't impressed, he settled for jumpers mostly and we know he's able to hit those (and he's usually not hitting them). He's shootings threes more than Dirk has ever shot them in his career. It's just totally backwards for a kid his size to do.

Ultimately I just hop we keep sucking badly and Brown get's ousted. I'm glad we fired him when we did, whether we kept LeBron or not and I real life face-palmed myself when I read the headline we re-hired him this year. I would've rather kept Scott honestly. For everything w gained on defense with Brown, we lost twice as much on offensive giving up Scott.

Here's to bleeding wine and...that's it. Bleeding wine.

 

[Rich]

As much praise as Pop gets I actually think he's underrated. He's the best coach of all-time in my book. Granted I know nothing about old-school coaches like Auerbach and some other all-time greats, but I don't see how anybody could be considered better than pop. He gets the best out of his players and he always gets everyone to buy into his system, which is a damn good one on both ends.

I don't even consider this Spurs team top 5 in talent, yet they are a top 3 team. Speaks volumes to his coaching abilities. I was actually just telling my roommate, give Gregg Popovich LeBron and I don't care who else is on the roster, that would be the best team in the league.

I was just thinking about this in my car. I think I'd put Pop in my five greatest basketball coaches (college and pro) of all time. Not sure of my order, but he's in there.