Gregg Popovich furious that Zaza Pachulia injured Kawhi Leonard
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- Опубліковано 8 вер 2024
- Spurs head coach Gregg Popovich rails against Zaza Pachulia's history as a dirty player. Pachulia injured Kawhi Leonard in Game 1 of the Western Conference Finals.
Regrettable play leaves Spurs without best player, Warriors defending themselves: sfex.news/2qjWBB6
By Jacob C. Palmer | / jacobc_palmer
S.F. Examiner Sports Editor
If GREG POPOVICH thinks it's a dirty play, it's a dirty play.
If you're right you're right
If Greg Popovich thinks ANYTHING then anything it is.
he didn't think Bowen kicking people in the face wasn't bad. or Robert Horry bashing nash into the scorers table. lol pop is a hypocrite. spurs were dirty as duck screwing teams up they deserved this 100%
@@chrisweber6090 stfu, don't disrespect the spurs, u gsw bandwagon
@@zhangkevin6748 its true by the way don't be dumbass and close minded fan!
Pop is like Kawhi's anger translator lol
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 im lol ded
thats classic
The ball was half way to the rim when Zaza took that extra step. Kawhi even landed about 2 feet behind where he jumped from and Zaza's foot was still there. Intentional without a doubt. Dirty ass player. Should be suspended if you ask me.
That's absolutely correct. There is no doubt it was intentional, the shot was long gone and he still took an additional step, and it wasn't because he had "so much momentum that he couldn't stop".
Obviously intentional.
I don't get why Zaza is still in the league lmao he is the most untalented player
Raptorel according to Google, momentum is the quantity of motion of a moving body, measured as a product of its mass and velocity.
BUT why did zaza took an extra step? thats not momentum because he baited kawhi to shoot the ball and zaza taught to put a foot on landing spot of kawhi. that was absolutely intentional. watch the video. THATS A TRAP!!!!
What relevance does the position of the ball in the air have anything to do with the momentum Zaza created while contesting the shot? If you look at the replay there is no reason to think a big dude like zaza can just stop on a dime simply because his 2 feet came down, one after the other
Wtf Zaza most untalented player?! He is one of the best screeners in the league
never heard him speak so long at once
Warrior fans chanting MVP to Zaza they know how big was the injury is classless!
Such a classless team and fan base it's so sad..
Stan Mozeleski Now they’re paying the price. Kawahi is showing no mercy.
And now the fans calling Toronto fans classless for cheering when KD went down
@@mizzym101 what comes around goes around for the warriors hoping raps can just beat them and get it over with at this point I feel like the league is trying to milk this series.. 🤔
Kawhi and finished off the warriors.. karma
Even when Popp is pissed, he's respectful and doesn't talk down to reporters. Best coach in the NBA.
He starts the clip off by talking down on the reporter 😂
@@bruh.2516 cuz it was a stupid question🤣
Pop wasn't respectful to Kobe, when he called to take his ankles out.
@@penkima4923I don't respect rapists either
He talks down the reporter right on the start and does that all the time. In what world do you live in?
its disgusting what a team would do just to win
edthelfcfan
Pop would know.
edthelfcfan Everyone knows Zaza history and it's obvious he took more steps to hit his injured foot I hate dirty players that try to win games like that
Kawhi Leonard #GOAT
Pop would disagree with you. He loves winning games like that.
suck it up, i think u dont know wat real basketball, you GSW superduper desperately to grab the champ, hiring more old allstar add durant lol thendirty play on finals lol no doubt GSW strong team but gay moves
Greg pop should be furious at the Spurs not zaza you win as a team not with 1 player REALIZE THAT POP....
warriros fans calling him a baby.. SMH band wagoners ain't respecting a legend as usual. this guy KNOWS what he's talking about. zaza Is a dirty sly player. he knew what he was doing
Kawhi sure is getting his revenge on Golden State!!!
bmpc1984 first of all, Zaza isn’t on the warriors anymore. And second, the raptors fans just booed Kevin Durant when he tore his Achilles. So technically golden state is going for revenge.
pickle man what?!? Lol you’re right, pour Warriors now are forced to only play with 3 Hall of Famers
Eddie Gutierrez cousins and draymomd aren’t gonna be in the hall of fame and klay tore his acl
@@pickleman4089
Draymond will be a HOF
One of the Main player in the dynasty
Dpoy award
And all star
Eddie Gutierrez ya know Klay tore his acl and was out most of the series
Zaza stopped Pop from getting his 6th ring. Then you look back at this, Kawhi distancing himself started here.
@Domo Jones It's a true shame, as the transition has been rough.
@Wobbling Reality yeah but I’ve accepted that, it was a well fought series. One of the best shots in nba history
Aye if kawhi beat the curry/kd/klay/draymond warriors in the WCF then bron in the finals, that would’ve been absolutely ridiculous
It's because it wasn't as much Zaza as it was pop, he was playing Kawhi injured that game, and to make it worse he re injured that leg on his own team mate couple plays earlier, Pop didn't take him out of the game, that's why he never came back to Spurs, Pop just scapegoated Zaza for his own incompetence.
Warriors and their fans man just smh
Austin Kirkendall more like a great team and bandwagoning fans
Austin Kirkendall scumbag fans**
Scum bags
ive been a warriors fan for 10 years and has scumbag fans? they are litterly 1 in attendance for 7 straight yearsbeven before currys rise
@Austin Kirkendall bandwagons
"That's one small step for man, one free trip to the finals for team." - Zaza 2k17
Don't care what anyone says, if Zaza didn't do that, the Warriors would have one less championship
facts, timmy, kawhi, and aldridge? heck yeah, weren't they like 2nd in defense or something that year???
I remember when Bruce Bowen did something similar to my man, Kobe Bean Bryant aka Black Mamba.
I guess this is karma in a way but I am so fucking angry because its Kawhi, hes such a genuine nice kind hearted guy and he is on receiving end.
Priest: Exactly, have no sympathy for coach Pop. He was ok w/ it as long as it was one of his players playing like that. Now all of a sudden that's a dangerous play.
Priest ya it's a dangerous play he purposely did it and I know Pop knew that Bowen did it but that's super old why u trynna bring shit up
Isaac Silva: Why do you need rules to know that if you don't allow space for the opposing player to land, he could possibly land on your foot & if his body weight's shifted wrong w/ too much pressure, he could tear a ligament or & or possibly brake the ankle? Anyone that's been taught proper defense & how to close out on the shooter, understands this was an intentional play. Did he know Kawai was going to land on his foot, no, but he understood the possibilities & he understood the close out technique he went to was wrong. Many people don't know how to play defense & they're taught by coaches that don't understand defense & all they tell them is close out on the shooter as fast & aggressive as you can, yet never showing them the technique to it. Zaza is an NBA vet of 10 years, he knows how to play defense & knew what he was doing.!
yeah pop was a lil bit hypocritical about this. he defended Bowen about his dirty plays all along. And if you watched game 1 Aldridge did this to curry and in game 2 to Durant and those 2 plays by Aldridge I believe were more intentional than zaza's.
Priest ayy Priest how ya doin? love your vids
if kawhi never got injured Spurs will win
100% they won the whole series imo
GS will be lucky to win s single game.
Spurs were playing solid ball in the playoffs. It’s a shame what happened to Kwai cause it changed the series
Breaks my fucking heart all the time
@@sas4l176 I feel the pain in these comments. Sorry Spurs fans I was always a huge fan of Kawhi.. Felt the same way when my Bulls and Rose went downwards after the 2012 playoff injury . Even after that and some good seasons, he was never the same player and Bulls never could win anything smh..
ZaZa was clearly trying to injure Kawhi. Anyone who disagrees is most likely rooting for the Warriors. It just obvious, that was not a normal basketball play.
That said, coming from Pop, this is a bit hypocritical. He had Bruce Bowen doing the same exact thing for years.
Its not okay, it should be addressed. Players need to play the game the right way, but Pop didn't seem too upset when Bowen would pull these same tactics.
xxSnEaKyPxx I’m a warriors fan but I was damn mad when ZaZa injured Leonard
I kind of disagree.. Zaza wasn’t seeing where his feet were and he was looking at the hoop, even Kawhi thought that it was an accident. That said Zaza did admit on the Dallas VS San Antonio game that he tried to bring down Kawhi. Gregg Poppovich was fine with Bruce Bowen doing it so he deserved his own medicine.
@@jcarnaje1834he almost killed Westbrook lmao ur delusional
Arham Akhyer ‘Oh no, falling on a leg while taking a slow but medium impact. Wow, I’m so gonna get injured. Westbrook is faking his shit, he was the iron man of this decade. So why is he faking it?
@@jcarnaje1834 You're in denial.
Pop is the best coach ever
I agree and I'm a laker fan
Phil Jackson says Hi
Asare Samuel Hi Phil!!
Do you like Pop too?
@@sam_asare man they r 2 best coach in the league that i 've ever witnessed but to compare phil got the best player in his team but mannn Pop tend to turn 5 random players into a contender team :/ . That why Pop have tendency to be GOAT coach in my opinion :/
Bruce Bowen. Pop recognized it and it bothers him so bad because he had coached it before.
if danny green did that shit to curry, all y'all who are saying its not dirty, would pull a 180 REAL quick...
Zaza doing this not only hurt Kawhi big time, but caused a domino effect in the entire league
They should've included more severe bans for the dirty plays with that domino-effect. Then, Giannis couldn't have stolen his ring with that play.
It really did
in 2006 hypocrite Popovich defended Bruce Bowen for the same play. LMA did the same thing to Curry in the same game.
I feel sad for Spurs fans, one play changed the entire history of your franchise
Just like how Robert Horry hip checked Steve Nash
What about suns fans?
This comment has aged so well and I'm so sad it's the truth
take that for DATA!!
Geo Mart lmao 😂😂😂😂
And never once did he tell bruce bowen to stop. the league had to step in.
Hahahaha...He's complaining about Zaza when he coached Bruce 'Lee' Bowen
And when Robert horry hip checked Steve Nash. The suns woulda won the whole thing that year.
warriors had no chanceto beat spurs with leonard playing
false...on so many accounts but ur not a real basketball fan, and cant analyze how cold the warriors were missing wide open easy shots they normally hit. so its ok :)
Facts. they were killin the warriors and was primed for a 6th ring until zaza pachuli pulled off the greatest ankle breaker of all time and shit went downhill for the spurs. Having high hopes for wemby to carry the winning tradition and hopefully put the spurs back on top.
Future HOF coach hands down
Pop was not upset about it when Bowen was doing it for him
back in the day there was a guy named BRUCE LEE BOWEN on spurs team, why pop never complaint lol?
There will never be a coach like Popovich again. What a one of a kind.
It hurts me watching a humble guy get hurt
"I am not a happy camper!" 😂
Love pop showing some emotion and stringing more than a few words together for a change
... Says the coach who continuously stood up for Bruce Bowen and told him to keep playing the way he did... hmmm ok. Didn't seem to have a problem with it back then when Bowen did the exact same thing over and over and over again. Now that it's come back around he has a problem with it? Sorry, he has no right to say anything. Total hypocrite.
Kyle Ward hypocrite just like you
I love that Pop in his own apologize to the first reporter for going off. Can tell he's just pissed and wanted to get it all out and the first guy was just the unlucky guy to ask the first question.
This (incident) sure changed the landscape of the league, that's for sure.
Thanks zaza
-from the Raptors
this shouldnt even be a comment. injuring a star player to win the game is no joke. that could have been career ending if he messed up his knee. lucky it was his ankle.
anyways congrats on the ring. kawhis coming home now.
zaza ended spurs dinasty
I really respect how he is talking about this situation. Instead of getting mad at the reporter for asking he spoke calmly and didn’t talk down to reporters which happens a lot
He has the nerve to complain about Za Za when Bruce Bowen used to injure Vince Carter and Kobe putting his foot in their landing space…😂😂😂
Sorry Pop, but you had Bowen in your squad, he literally did that to every superstar he faced.
Unbiased Sports Fan still doesn't make what Zaza did right.
popp007us you're both right
well, was Popovich speaking out against Bowen's tactics back then? if not, then he is a hypocrite.
Oliver Sharp I know, I love Pop but he had a similar, if not worse, in his squad, Bowen did that all the time intentionally, this is the first time Zaza ever got in someones landing space and he was not even trying to. He is 6'11 280 lbs, very sluggish and clumsy man. He injured KD this season as well
oh so...your saying what Zaza did was just as bad as what Bowen did? Im fine with that. I hope you know Spurs fans hate Bowen anyway lmao
Thus began the downfall of the Spurs
Pop was crashing out but I don’t blame him 😂
I am a total Warriors fan, but I gotta admit that Zaza should be sorry for SAS. And I respect Pop for being very rational through this, even though he's very furious about it.
#respect#Pop#respect#SAS#getwell#kawhi
karma is a bitch!
This is great interview; it’s got everything you need
This was the beginning of the end of Kawhi’s tenure in S.A.
Remind you of anyone named Bruce Bowen?
As a GSW fan, I believe that Zaza indubitably injured Kawhi on purpose. His feet's movements were completely unnatural and unnecessary. I honestly preferred Javale McGee as the starting center from the beginning. What a shame we have such a dirty player in our team.
Yall stole that championship that year from us but karma came back
Zaza the goat now they cemented themselves as the 2017 nba champs! Thanks to this man
you won championships with Bowen, Coach... were you ranting and raving back then? hypocrite.
Guess u haven't seen all the Bowen references today. Lol. Moron
Cry yourself to sleep snowflake baby.
chrisryals29 when the rule is put in place because Bowen is most known for it. But of course pop considered that great perimeter defense when he was winning trophies. Now he's crying about it. Loser hypocrite
This is Golden States 11th playoff series in the last 3 yrs and in 9 of them an opposing team has had at least 1 starter injured
Pop is the best coach of all time and has really never been biased or accused people and has seen everything in his successful career so I think his opinion matters more than most people
Actually it’s Phil Jackson. He has 11 championships as a coach for 2 different teams. And before you say he had MJ, Pippen, Kobe and Shaq, they ran his system of coaching
zaza must of watched bruce bowen highlights
Pop let his guys (Bowen,Kerr) undercut guys for YEARS.. Bowen had a history of that action too but he was on the sidelines screaming everytime he would get a foul that would’ve been a flagrant by any other guy.
Didn't Bruce Bowen pull stuff like this ? Did Pop have this conversation wtih him ?
true respect to Popovich for saying what too many are afraid to say. What Zaza did was not natural in the least and that extra shuffle imho was deliberate. even if momentum(which it didn't, his momentum was already slowed greatly and he wasn't even going fast in the first place on the close-out to require an extra step) took Zaza another step on the close-out. he decided not to take that extra step to the left or two the right but he decided to stick it directly underneath Kawhi's left foot landing area. extremely dirty and disgusting.
But a body check on Nash in 2007 was clean? C'mon Pop. And what "history" is Pop talking about? Don't tell me he went back at look at Zaza's profile the whole night.
chomraj patanasorn profile?? The dude does dirty shit every day we all see vids bout him u don't gotta go searching shut up finding files and shit it's all in front of u bitch he's a FUCKING NASTY DIRTY PLAYER
Didnt Pop have Bowen on his team for many years, doing the same exact things?
Zaza Is a dirty player..but let's be fair, Bruce Bowen was just as bad, tbh he was worse
Tell em
That injury affected Kawhi's career
he's right about one thing 😂😂😂 "WE ALL KNOW WHATS GONNA HAPPEN WITH THE EAST." 😂😂😂
😂😂😂 such a funny and respectful man, who speaks the truth and whats on his mind, thats a coach a role model 🤔
When people give out about Kawhi's knee inflammation now just to fill the time on ESPN, this interview should explain why the Clippers will be happy to keep him on a load management basis until the next 2 playoffs... it's because he can dance with the 🐐's
could not believe that such man like zaza is able to become a hero of his country. shame.
I thought the dude in the back pulled on gun on Pop
I didn't know Pops could be as salty as the dead sea. lmao. blaming someone whether it be intentional or not doesn't change anything. Bruce Bowen came back to pops.
He coached the king of dirty bruce bowen and he got under shooters everytime said nothing when bowen was trying to injure kobe.
T Thomas bowen never tried to injur kobe, and kobe praised bowen as one of his fave guys to competed against
Go watch some tape bro
@@tthomas6037 also Vince carter hate bruce bowen he almost in VC career because of dirty plays.
ZAZA THE MDP!
MOST DIRTY PLAYER!
When did Bruce Bowen take a player out in a Playoff series or regular season game tho?
Bruce Bowen did it for years while being coached by Pop.
Hypocrite this is the same guy who coached Bruce Bowen to do the same thing to other players!!
most words this man said on a presscon. gold.
My Guess is SPURS come out with some FIRE tonight!
No wonder raptors can't win with detroit piston? Because zaza is playing there.
I respect Pop. But what he said can all be applied to Bowen, one of his retired Spurs.
What makes it so bad that Kawhi was fading away and he still landed on Zazas foot.
I hate reporters that force the laugh when Pop prompts it.
BRUCE BOWEN. don't switch up now Pop.
Pop, Phil, Avery, Pat, Doc....these guys really care about their players, not just what the player can do.
Hey Pop, you seemed to forget how Bruce Bowen plays? Remember the playoff with Lakers in 02...
Warriors clearly rusty and got caught sleeping. Any real warriors fan and mean a Bay Area real warriors fans knows this. There's no stopping us last years finals was rigged and we're here to take back what's ours. We've suffered with this team for many moons now we're getting hated on why? Because we're on top of the world.
Dirty or clumsy, people like Zaza are in the league for this type of plays. Did he have intention to hurt Kawhi, probably not to the extent it turned out...
As a basketball fan, these are the two best teams in the league (Cavs in a DISTANT third)... and I just want to see both teams play at full strength.
As an European player, Zaza knows it's a potential career-ending dirty play. The basketball rulebook says to hand incidents like these over to the police in everywhere else, but not in the NBA.
First this freak accident when he stepped on Lee's foot and then the maybe/maybe not dirty play from Zaza. If you have that much luck with injuries like the Warriors had this playoffs you have to win the championship. Not a Cavs fan but I just hope they stop KD from getting a ring
why didnt leonard have a brace or some sort of support on ffs....
As I remember Bruce Bowen was playing for you and for your Spurs!
This is why Pop is so great defending his stars like a coach should do
He defended Bruce Bowen for being an ankle breaker is normal and years later it happen to his star player.
@@Ultimagicarus your comment makes 0 sense
Question is, why is Kawhi in the game when your up 23?
Because the warriors are the kind of team to get hot and come from behind
The ghost of Bruce Bowen comes back to bite hypocrite Pop.
I don't care about what this coach thinks...the player that got hurt ( Kawhi ) even said it wasn't Zaza's fault. Look at the injury again Zaza wasn't even paying attention. Also before, Kawhi rolled his ankle on David Lee, his own teammate, you mine as well say the teammate did it on purpose too. Yall have nothing to support your opinion. All this is coming from an NBA fan neither for Warriors or Spurs.
I suppose Pop talks about Bruce Bowen injuring countless of players doing the same exact thing?
Ah, fuck, this is 2017, he's talking about someone from another team, right, right, my bad.
Both what Bowen did and what Zaza did is despicable.
Was the guy clicking the camera annoying anyone else
Is Popovich describing Zaza or his fave lockdown defender Bruce Bowen? Funny how it is a dangerous play now, but he was more than fine when Bruce was doing it to Vince and Jamal Crawford and Steve Francis and Ray Allen.
Kawhi closing out series in Oakland, to stick it to the dubs, their fans, and to avenge Spurs' loss because of Zaza 's dirty work
legend
Popovich was finna Popabitch 👀👀
This guy coached Bruce Bowen... really knows what he is talking about.
So you leave KL in after he sprained his ankle twice? Once by their own player (David Lee)
I don't wish this on anybody. But POP is partly to blame. Up 23 with your star hurting?
Take him out. And no, Zsa Zsa did not do this on purpose. I'm sure POP knows all about Bruce Bowen! Dirtiest player ever... a little hypocritical, imho.
Regardless, (Zsa Zsa) he should know better. A close out is fine. But you have to give player a place to land. Period. And they called him for a foul.
Anything more than that is mind reading. And i don't know how you do that, and use that as fact.
He has every right to be anger. You know what seems shady. Zaza said he didnt even know he even injured kawhi until he looked back. How do you not know what a 6'7 guy lands on your foot after landing 1-2 feet from a fadeaway, think about it.
and for those saying how about david lee injuring kawhi first, hey, jumping from a stool vs jumping off a 10 storey high building, which one is dangerous? He accidentally stepped on lee's foot while running, and he stepped on pachulia's foot coming off a high jumpshot! Which one did the serious damage? Go figure!