Popovich is brilliant, but he’s been working within a culture that was established a long time ago by David Robinson and Tim Duncan. When your two superstars are that humble, it gives the coach a lot of leeway to focus on other stuff.
Consider Tony Parker. Tony was a talented young player, but Popovich was pretty harsh with him while trying to get him to play the right way. I don’t think an established star (and primadonna) like James Harden or Russell Westbrook is going to respond well to that.
I do think he would work well with Kawhi and Paul George, however. So if we’re talking about the Clippers from 2 seasons ago, he might do better.
But, dudes, Ty Lue is a good coach. Coaching an injury prone super team would be hard for anybody.
Can’t we just make fun of his name?