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[QUOTE="Knicks411, post: 160985, member: 767"]
Not my intent to discredit Pop; I think the guy is a great great coach.  But Duncan, IMO is one of the 10 best players in the history of the game, give or take.  The Suns had no one like that.  You can play any system you want, if one team has an all time great, plus other good players and a great coach, and the other team doesn't have the all time great, then who do you think is gonna win? I think the system is getting too much of the focus.  Duncan is better than any Sun, Pop is a better coach than D'Antoni; it's not a failing of their system they lost.  They weren't as good.  (And they still had a chance to win in 07).
 
As for the emphasis on defense, I think I agree with you for the most part.  But take Nash and Amare; those guys are going to be bad at defense no matter what your system is.  So it's less a failing of the system and more a failing of the players.  Though certainly you can make the argument that there wasn't enough of an emphasis placed on D by the coach, which I think is fair.
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