Spurs coach Gregg Popovich calls today’s NBA ‘very boring’ due to lack of innovation

San Antonio Spurs head coach Gregg Popovich has never been one to hold back when discussing his opinion. Prior to Tuesday’s game against the Golden State Warriors, Popovich expounded upon his opinion of the current status of the league and how teams are adapting to the strengths of one another.

“We all steal from each other, that’s the bottom line,” Popovich said, per Mike Monroe of The Athletic. “None of us [is] innovative. We just look for somebody who did something well, and we copy it. And now we all penetrate and shoot threes, which is very boring.”

It is boring not just to watch, in the veteran coach’s opinion, but also to coach.

“Absolutely,” Popovich said. “It’s simplistic.”

Over the first two-plus months of the season, no team has shot fewer threes per game than the Spurs at 26.9 per contest. Those decreased looks from long range have helped the team shoot 36.6 percent from behind the arc, the eighth-best percentage in the league.

The Spurs’ roster is one not specifically devised for shooting from deep. Even with that in mind, the organization has nearly always adapted and shifted its way of operating under Gregg Popovich, which is why they have participated in the postseason every season since 1996-97.

San Antonio sit at 14-18 on the year as of Wednesday, currently in possession of the No. 8 seed in the Western Conference. They have scuffled on the road to the tune of a 4-10 mark, attempting to overcome that early year deficiency to still reach the playoffs.

It is worth noting, however, that a lot of NBA coaches today ave modeled their style to Pop. In fact, a number of bench tacticians in the NBA cam under the Popovich tree — which is probably why the Spurs coach is not happy.

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