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Gregg Popovich’s mid-game mic grab just another tired act from holier-than-thou coach
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Gregg Popovich’s mid-game mic grab just another tired act from holier-than-thou coach
As of Friday, the Spurs had the worst record in the West, a 10-game losing streak, and a tired act from their coach.
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I got a good taste of the ornery, obnoxious Gregg Popovich in 2019, about a year before his impressive consecutive playoff streak was snapped, when I asked him about a defense that gave up 130 points to a terrible Knicks team.
Popovich, less than a month removed from his 70th birthday, slapped himself.
Really.
“Didn’t I just say it was pathetic? What would you like me to do? Slit my throat,” Popovich said as he planted a right hand on both cheeks.
OK, I responded, then what was specifically pathetic about the defense?
“No, I’m not going to give you a coaching clinic.”
Got it. Popovich doesn’t have time for no-nothing peons such as myself, or the sideline reporters tasked with gleaning information between quarters. He’s done about as much for that profession as Charissa Thompson. He’d prefer to slap himself than answer reasonable queries.
Which brings us to the subject of “class.” Popovich, ignoring multi-layered hypocrisy, brought it up Wednesday night in San Antonio, where he decided, audaciously, to grab a microphone and tell his home crowd to stop booing Kawhi Leonard.
“Have a little class. That’s not who we are. Knock off the booing,” Popovich said before walking away and waving his hands in the air, becoming almost a satirical version of an old man yelling about the integrity of his lawn.
The action, on its own, was silly and falls in line with Popovich’s holier-than-thou attitude. He’s insulated in his small-market bubble and believed that scolding fans about their (rightful) feelings was a good idea and would change minds because he’s friggin’ Gregg Popovich. Keep in mind that he wasn’t protecting a player on his own team, but rather an opponent who once sat out extended time for the Spurs and demanded a trade.
For decades these fans were sold that the Spurs culture, fostered by Popovich, is the best culture. So why wouldn’t they blame a player for bolting?
If Papa Bear Popovich were so concerned about San Antonio’s sentiment toward Leonard, he would’ve taken accountability for the circumstances surrounding the All-Star’s desire to leave. Or, maybe, he would have provided fans a proper explanation for that quadriceps injury that was either milked by Leonard or mishandled by the Spurs, depending on which side of the anonymously sourced stories are correct. Or, maybe, Popovich would’ve given fans insight into that 2019 meeting in Los Angeles between coach and star that apparently failed and couldn’t change Leonard’s trade demand.
Instead, we got nothing substantial from Popovich during or after the rift. To this day, there isn’t a clear understanding of why the forward desperately wanted to abandon the franchise that drafted him. But the fans who once loved Leonard — whose money helped make Popovich the highest-paid NBA coach in history — should stop booing because he said so.
To Popovich’s credit, he has stated in previous interviews that the booing of Leonard made him uncomfortable. And I would’ve ignored Wednesday’s microphone grab if it weren’t for Popovich’s insulting explanation after his scolding didn’t work.
“You don’t poke the bear,” he claimed in the postgame presser, after the fans ignored his words and kept booing.
Excuse me?
“Anybody that knows anything about sports knows you don’t poke the bear.”
Riiiiiiight.
So according to him, Popovich, who has for many years witnessed booing rain down on Leonard in San Antonio, decided Wednesday to grab the arena microphone and chastise his fanbase to mask a genius coaching tactic. How wonderfully self-serving after a bold move doesn’t go according to plan.
We’re not buying it. Popovich looked bad, and he decided not to own it. His “I’m smarter than everybody in the world” act worked for a long time because he had Tim Duncan and won a lot. In the past four playoff-less years, however, Popovich’s greatest coaching accomplishment was losing games for Victor Wembanyama.
As of Friday, the Spurs had the worst record in the West, a 10-game losing streak, and a tired act from their coach.
Hall Seeking Answers vs High-Major Opponents
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Seton Hall’s men’s basketball team proved that they still have a long way to go.
The Pirates dropped game two of a two-game tournament that represented the first real test of the season in the Rady Children’s Invitational in San Diego in the consolation bracket game by the score of 85-72 to the Iowa Hawkeyes on Thursday night.
The Pirates clawed back from an 18-point first half deficit to within five in the second half but couldn’t get over the hump. Dre Davis led the Pirates with 18 points and three rebounds while Jaden Bediako tallied a double-double with 11 points and 11 rebounds.
A Tony Perkins and-1 staked the Hawkeyes to a 15-4 lead with 15 minutes to play, while a tepid first half saw the Pirates fall behind by as many as 18 points before cutting it to an 11-point deficit heading into the half at 44-33.
Payton Sandfort led four Hawkeyes in double-figures with 22 points and nine rebounds while Perkins, who took it to the Pirates a year ago at the Prudential Center, finished with 14 points five rebounds and five assists in the Hawkeye victory.
Seton Hall posted an abysmal 36% from the floor, shooting, 27-75 overall, including 29.6% from beyond the arc, while the Hawkeye offense generated 20 assists on 31 made baskets that helped contribute to Iowa’s 56.4% shooting rate.
The Pirates did hold a 38-36 rebounding advantage, including 16-3 on the offensive side of the boards and turned the ball over only six times.
After a 4-0 start to the season without any quality tests, the Pirates fall to 4-2 after their first two matches against high-major opponents dropped them to 4-2.
The Hall flies home to South Orange and returns to the Prudential Center court on Wednesday to face Northeastern University at 6:30 p.m. ET before successive high major tests at Baylor on Dec. 5 and home against in-state rival Rutgers on Dec. 9.
Seton Hall Rallies, Falls Short Against Iowa, 85-72
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Senior Dre Davis (Indianapolis, Ind.) scored 18 points with seven rebounds and three assists and graduate student Jaden Bediako (Brampton, Ontario) p...
San Diego, Calif. — Senior Dre Davis (Indianapolis, Ind.) scored 18 points with seven rebounds and three assists and graduate student Jaden Bediako (Brampton, Ontario) posted his second double-double of the season in the Seton Hall Men's basketball team's 85-72 loss to Iowa in the consolation game of the Rady Children's Invitational on Friday evening.
The Pirates (4-2) nearly erased a large deficit for the second consecutive night before ultimately coming up short. Davis was named to the Rady Children's Invitational All-Tournament team after averaging 16.5 points, 5.5 rebounds and 3.0 assists in two games.
How It Happened
Iowa had its way offensively in the first half where it shot 60 percent from the field. The Hawkeyes went up 44-27 on a fast break dunk with 1:08 before halftime but back-to-back threes by senior Dylan Addae-Wusu (Brooklyn, N.Y.), including a buzzer-beating trey from the half court logo, made it an 11-point game, 44-33, and gave the Pirates momentum going into the locker room.
Despite consecutive buckets by senior Kadary Richmond (Brooklyn, N.Y.) to start the second half, Iowa was able to answer on their end each time and still led 53-39 before the Pirates went on a run. Senior Al-Amir Dawes (Newark, N.J.) got it started with a three-pointer off a feed from Bediako. A hook shot in the lane from Richmond led to another Dawes triple that forced Iowa to call a timeout. After a steal by freshman Isaiah Coleman (Fredericksburg, Va.), another bucket by Richmond in the paint made it a four-point game, 53-49, with 15:58 to play.
Both sides traded baskets down the stretch as the Pirates trimmed its deficit to five on three separate occasions. Davis converted field goals on consecutive trips that cut Iowa's lead to six, 71-65, with 5:23 to go but a Seton Hall turnover on its next time down the floor led to a dunk that and later a layup that pushed the Hawkeyes' lead back to 10, 75-65.
With 2:40 left in the game, Addae-Wusu found Dawes open on a corner three that made it a five-point contest again, 75-70, but it would be the closest the Pirates would get the rest of the way as a couple of empty trips offensively sunk the Pirates' hopes of a comeback.
Inside The Box Score
- Seton Hall finished plus-two on the backboards for the second consecutive game, 38-36.
- Iowa ended up shooting 56 percent from the field (31-of-55) while Pirates shot 36 percent.
- Seton Hall forced 11 Iowa turnovers and turned it into 14 points.
- The Pirates finished with 14 assists and six turnovers.
- Seton Hall shot 10-of-12 from the free throw line.
- Bediako now has six career double-doubles.
- Davis has scored in double-figures in five of six games this season.
- Coleman stuffed the staff sheet with eight points, five rebounds, two assists and three steals in 22 minutes.
- Richmond now has 350 career assists and 258 in his career at Seton Hall.
- Richmond now has 120 steals in his three-year Seton Hall career.
Seton Hall returns to the friendly confines of the Prudential Center on Wednesday, Nov. 29 against Northeastern at 6:30 p.m. It'll be Greek Night at The Rock.
Another day, another anti-Jewish act by a Leftist
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Nazis and Communists hate Jews.
The new normal Left has aligned with both hate groups. .
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The new normal Left has aligned with both hate groups. .
Disney Channel actress, activist, arrested for vandalizing Israeli company’s offices
Radical political activist Calla Walsh, who has mingled with Congressional Democrats, was arrested for wrecking Elbit Systems’ offices during a protest.
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