Spurs

Hawks are going to the finals. You can bookmark that.

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I hope, when Bud comes back and leads the spurs after pop retires. lol

Pretty much. I'm just debating that in no shape or form can someone say Bud is better than Pop. Not even Bud can. I still think is a top 3 coach though.

During the offseason I said the hawks were a good team and losing Al was a huge setback and they had a good record with him and they kept saying the hawks were barely ahead of anyone and I cosigned all the moves and I'm not even a hawks fan. I do cheer for ya though.

I don't know if you understand 11 games in 16 days vs all great teams when we are heavily depleted with injuries is insane. I'm not talking about beaten those things with a healthy team in a reasonable amount of time.

Thibs wears out his teams for regular season victories and then they fall apart in the playoffs. I'm not to big on that guy.

:D Both teams are doing great given their respective situations.

I don't know where I read that strength of schedule bit but I can't find it anymore. Anyways this was a small part of their december schedule. 12/14 - @ Denver 12/15 - @ Portland 12/17 - vs Memphis 12/19 - vs Portland 12/20 - @ Dallas 12/22 - vs LA Clippers 12/25 - vs OKC 12/26 - @ New Orleans 12/28 - vs Houston 12/30 - @ Memphis 12/31 - vs New Orleans Pretty tough in a small amount of time.

Pop has a 23-15 record with kawhi out almost all the year, parker injured just as much, tiago out for a good portion, patty out until like 2 weeks ago, resting manu and tim as much as possible and on some B2Bs and playing a top 3 hardest schedule to date. I think Pop is doing a greater job than Bud but that's just me.

Pop going to Pop.

Pop in the east? I'd say even better.The whole media and basketball pundits would be calling this team a championship team.

Who even put them there in the first place? Who won it all last year with the most loopsided series ever in history and for the whole playoffs too. Who has 5 rings as head coach in the modern era? You're talking about regular season games where Pop experiments and has always won 50plus games including a lock out season and went 37 and 13 in another lockout in 99 and won a title? You talking to me about regular season games? As a spurs fan, regular season games aren't much to talk about unless you haven't had much playoff success. We could careless if Pop uses his 2 point guard line-ups in the regular season. He experiments with his rotations and play calling. Do you understand that?

Until you actually bring some proof to the table, that's just homerism at best.

Bud better than Pop? Are you serious? My god the over reaction. He is behind Pop and Carlisle no doubt though. Number 3 for me in the league. Multiple rings as head honcho and at least 20 years of 50plus winning seasons in a loaded conference and like 10 conference finals at least. Then we'll talk about his legacy. Pretty high up there though.

Can I get an amen?

You have a championship coach. Listen to that guy. Not the one that wants to be entertained and have someone shoot tons of shots and move away from the ball movement and team basketball concept that got you here. He just said detroit is one of the most talented teams in the league. WTF? Seriously?

I told ya guys this guy is the real deal. No knuckheads allowed. Winning cures all.

People underestimate the powers of depth. You'll see that this coming season.

The other teams are all trash besides miami cleveland and maybe chicago. They aren't even that great either. All the other teams are pretenders though. If there was a year to make some noise, it's this year.

Coach Bud changed the whole system in one year. Wow. People don't give him enough credit. He also lost his best player for most of the season. Having a healthy squad and 1 year under his belt, I see a top 3 finish.

Lance is a scrub.

Bud has tons of rings. He could make that Indiana team beat the heat.

I put Bud second too. Has thibs even gone to an ECF?

Hawks ball movement is not gimmicky. They were just not the better team. That's fine. Keep working the system and the team will get better. Continuity is a thing the spurs rely on along with player development. The hawks will get better as long as everyone is healthy.