Coach Popovich made a massive strategic blunder early this season trying to turn the over-the-hill gang Spurs into an uptempo team offensively. Everyone knows that uptempo offensive teams never win championships, especially an aged veteran team. Pop had his team too wound up too early for too long and this collapse was inevitable. The aged Spurs played well the first 80% of the regular season but then ran out of gas going down the stretch and were too pooped to pop in the 1st round. Unlike the Repeat World Champion Lakers they can’t flip the switch. Pops forgot that in the playoffs it’s all about the half court offense and defense, and pacing an older team through the regular season so that they have something left in the gas tank for the playoffs. Anyone who thought that Pops was a genius changing the Spurs offensive scheme knows nothing about NBA basketball!

That’s why Phil Jackson is so awesome as a coach, he understands pacing an older team during the regular season so they’re not worn out for the playoffs. Yes we Laker fans pull our hair out at times during the regular season whenever the Lakers decide to take an in-season vacation for a few games, but we can only laugh at the buffoonish pundits who constantly write off the Lakers when they lose a few regular season games. That’s why they were able to rise to the occasion after getting surprised in game 1 against the Hornets, they have plenty of gas in their tank despite being the oldest team in the playoffs because they understand how to pace themselves.

So Spurs fans if you want to know who to blame for the Spurs Total Choke against the Grizzles you can lay all of the blame on coach Popovich. Only a total idiot would try to turn the ancient Spurs into an uptempo offensive team when that was never their modus operandi and Pops deserves to be taken to task for his utter stupidity of not understanding what his aged team was and was not capable of. That’s why the Spurs choked against a much younger team who can play uptempo while the Repeat World Champion Lakers sent the younger Hornets fishing. That’s why Phil Jackson deserves coach of the year, because he understands his team and what it takes to win championships! That’s why the Repeat World Champion Lakers will Threepeat this June.

I don’t know if anyone remembers that Dallas-Golden State series a few years back, that was another time when a No. 8 beat a No. 1.

I think that series had much more energy from the Warriors than the Grizz did, but I think the Spurs-Grizz series was more of an upset that Mavs-Warriors was.