What is a Strained Left Iliopsoas?

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The term Iliopsoas refers to the combination of three muscles:

* psoas major
* psoas minor
* iliacus

These muscles are distinct in the abdomen, but usually indistinguishable in the thigh. As such, they are usually given a common name and are referred to as the “dorsal hip muscles”[1] or “inner hip muscles”[2].

He blew a dorsal hip muscle.

I.E He strained a Flipper

No wonder he looked like JV in his final game, he had the mobility of an old man with his strained hip muscle.

well it least he can recover over the summer…

Right, he’ll recover great while carrying the French National Team on his shoulders for months.
Can we call it the Ginobili Beijing Olympics Recovery Plan?

Why thanks for the spam, SAS.

PS Pop is smarter than you.

Dear SAS,

Thank you for the completely off topic and severely misplaced post.

Yours truly,
ThatBigGuy

WOW SAS! Why don’t you coach the team since all of your research and credentials? As stated by another poster, a horribly out of place statement that says more about your own ineptidue than Poppovich……….and for the record, you’re full of s!%t! I don’t know if you know this, but the players play the games. If Manu Ginobili doesn’t foul Nowitzki for that AND1 in ’06, the Spurs beat the Heat for the championship that year…..that play was not a coaching decision. You are entitled to your own opinion but not your own facts.

Wow guys cut SAS some slack, he was simply sharing a link he found… why the hostility?

I’m sure we’ve all wondered what the heck is going on on Pop’s head this year, from all the lineups to getting rid of Ratliff, not playing the others guys, etc.

I think this is a blog to share information, everyone has an opinion, why be so harsh? I bet if you were standing in a room together you would never talk like that.

Well I for one appreciated the link, thanks SAS, I like to know what others are thinking, even if it isn’t true, it is an insight to how others view the coaching from outside…

Welllll…….

The thing is that he is annoying people by flying off the topic of Tony Parkers hip bits, and pumping up the wheels on the knee jerk reactionary wagon.

Plus the idea that Pops to blame for all the franchises woes is all so much toddle.

….and by the way, I would still take Poppovich over any coach in the league. Him and Duncan together are simply in a class of their own. Coaches go through peaks and valleys as well. Remember the few years after the Lakers got rid of Shaq before they got Gasol…..People were jumping all over Mr. Phil Jackson. Demonstrating again that players win games. Kobe couldn’t do it solo.

colin

so if players win games why is pop considered a great coach? He didnt “turn us around.” He didnt win us rings. He continued Davids success and got TD. We havent seen him coach until the last couple years, arguably this is his first.

Keep on doing the same things over and over and expect a differrent result….

Hey guys also don’t forget to read the GMAC comments about that article. i like that i am pasting that one here read it.
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I am assuming your not a spurs fan if you are willing to hammer Pop like you do. Your article demonstrates you don’t know much about basketball except for what ever you can regurgitate from other articles. Coach Popivich is not overrated by any stretch and to suggest this only shows how clueless you are about basketball and your lack of loyalty to a coach that has won FOUR championships. I must have missed your so called statistics that demonstrate that Pop is overrated. I saw some junk about player efficiency but no evidence of poor play calling, poor offensive or defensive systems. You attempted to show poor substitution patterns but it was one game. You say the results of this season define Pops career, a season that isn’t over, but yet because of poor play by the spurs this year, Pop is a terrible coach. Jefferson is playing poorly yes, but in all actuality the only player that is playing good is Tim Duncan. How does this equate to poor coaching. You state that they wasted money on Jefferson and Dice, but every basketball analyze believed these was a great pick up by the spurs. Jefferson has always been a legit scoring threat but he is playing tentatively and appears to have lost his confidence. If he plays to his potential the spurs elevate to a top three team in the NBA. You say he made a living off teams doubling Jason Kidd and Vince Carter and when the Spurs traded for him I imagine they saw a player that would make a living off teams that doubled Parker, Duncan and Manu. They pick him up to do what you said he did in New Jersey, he just isn’t playing well. Dice always plays great in the second half of the season. When the Spurs make the playoffs they will be a team nobody wants to play and Dice will be a big part of that. He received the mid level because he rebounds the ball very well and shoots very well from 15 ft out. The spurs struggle with rebounding and spacing the floor with the other big Dice helps them in both areas. Also if you had paid attention Dice wasn’t there top choice, their top choice is playing some in Europe, do you recall Tiago Splitter? Lost in your article is any evidence that Pop is a bad or overrated coach. You mention Louis Scola and I agree that this was a mistake by the spurs. That being said, Scola wasn’t signed because they showed loyalty to Fabricio Oberto and resigned him. The spurs also decided to avoid the luxury tax by using Scola to rid themselves of Jackie Butler’s contract. At that time they did not think Scola would mess with Tim Duncan so they did the right thing for Scola and traded him before his buyout was to high. I would have loved to see Scola in a Spurs uniform but I can live with the spurs gambling on Jackie Butler and rewarding Fabricio Oberto for being an important piece to a championship run. Side note, comparing Scola’s stats with Jefferson’s stats is silly. They play different positions and Scola’s stats would be greatly affected because he plays power forward and wouldn’t receive as many minutes with the spurs. But for your sake I will agree with you that the Scola trade was a bad decision. It also appear right now that the Jefferson pick up isn’t working. Over the course of 12 years coaches will make mistakes and it appears Pop has made three. Trading Scola, trading for Jefferson (verdict still out in my opinion) signing Jackie Butler. Now considering all the things he has done right (more on that later) and the FOUR championships I can life with that. You mention Stephen Jackson and Hedo as mistakes. Well lets get your facts or “stats” in order. First of the spurs never traded Hedo, he left to Orlando for a huge contract as a free agent. Regarding Hedo I recall he played very poorly against the Lakers in the playoffs and because of this the spurs lost. Also if they had resigned Hedo, guess what, either Manu or Tony Parker is playing in Denver or for some other NBA team. Stephen Jackson was offered an 18 million dollar contract but took 1.5 million from Atlanta so he could play for a large contract. He made a calculated risk and it worked out for him. If they had resigned Jackson, maybe Manu doesn’t develop into the player he is. If they pay him the 42 million he received from the Pacers we can’t sign Manu or Parker. Speaking of Jackson, answer me this… Who made the decision to bring Jackson to the Spurs in the first place? He was an after thought coming out of New Jersey, the Spurs sign him, he learns to play his first season, and becomes a major piece of the puzzle to the spurs 2nd championship. Pop developed Jackson over two seasons and because of this Jackson went on to be a 20 pt scorer… Thats coaching. The spurs are a small market team and this is the first season they have been over the cap this bad. They couldn’t afford to resign Hedo and Stephen Jackson and still keep Tony Parker and Manu. So considering this who would you have keep around? Don’t act like they would have been able to keep all four players, thats not the reality the spurs operate in. So please don’t disrespect Coach Pop the guy is the best coach in the league and he made hard choices, most of which have been great. You say think Chris Bosh, Brandon Roy, Kevin Durant etc…. News flash, those types of players are not available to teams that win Championships like the spurs. Those players were lottery picks and those players were not available in free agency last year. The spurs did not have enough cap space to make a run at Bosh this summer and Roy and Durant are in there rookie contracts and will get max deals. So they used the cap space they would have had in 2010 and signed Jefferson, a 20 pt scorer who isn’t playing well YET!!! Have some faith in a team that has won 50 games every year since 2000. The spurs won a championship in 07, made the Western Conference Finals in 08. If Manu was healthy, I strongly feel they beat the Lakers in the Western Conference finals and instead of being called old they are called experienced. I remember detractors like you called the spurs old after they lost to the Mavs in that classic 7 game series in 06 (which if not for a terrible Manu foul they win) and won the whole thing the next year. Last season was hard because of the injuries to Manu and Duncan. If Manu and Duncan are healthy it a totally different story. Funny how things work, the spurs are the most successful franchise in the NBA since Pop came to town and created a brand of basketball only the Spurs play. But as soon as our squad struggles and doesn’t play the type of SPURS basketball we are all accustom too, your ready to run him off. Coach Pop is a great coach and you should be thankful he is running the show. Oh and if you want proof of his coaching accomplishments look no further to his development of Tony Parker. How about Manu’s development, Pop never stifled Manu and lives with Manu’s good and his bad play. Manu is who he is because he has a coach that understands the type of player he is, and allows him to play off instinct. For every bad move you say Pop has made, I can name three great moves he made. I’ll give you the Scola trade and i’ll add the signings of Malik Rose and Rasho Nesterovic to a hugh contracts. But like I said for every one mistake there are way more brilliant moves… Here is a list to start:

1. Listening to his staff and letting the spurs draft Tony Parker
2. Drafting Manu
3. Drafting George Hill
4. Drafting Tiago Splitter
5. Drafting Dejuan Blair
6. Signing Bruce Bowen
7. Trading for Speedy Claxton (although it cost us John Salmon, who I think under Pop’s guidance would have been great for us. That being said they did not want the guarentted contract that a 1st round pick mandated so they traded for a player in the last year of his contract in Speedy Claxton)
8. Not resigning Speedy Claxton
9. Signing Stephen Jackson
10. Trading for Steve Smith and Steve Kerr and keeping cap flexibility to be able to resign Tim Duncan, Maun, and Tony Parker (bet you don’t remember which player they traded, hint read the next signing)
11. Signing Derek Anderson
12. Trading Derek Anderson to maintain cap flexibility
Trading basically nothing for Hedo Turkoglu and Ron Mercer and seeing these players did not fit the defensive system the run and not blowing up their cap flexibility to resign Turkoglu.
13. Developing the best defensive system in the NBA allowing most of his teams to play great team defense with only two great defenders (Bowen and Duncan)
14. Resigning Tim Duncan, Manu, and Tony Parker to contracts less than their market value.
This is a major point, the relationship between Duncan and Pop is the main reason Tim Duncan is not in Orlando right now. Tim Duncan must love playing for bad coaches, which is why he choose to resign with the spurs twice.
15. Trading Malik Rose for Nzar Mohammad who was vital to our championship run in 05.
16. His continuing development of George Hill
17. Managing minutes so his players are ready for the playoffs

@Trade TP

What are you trying to say? I never said that Pop “turned us around.” You did. Would Phil Jackson have won 10 rings without Jordan, Pippen, Shaq, Kobe, and Gasol? He is considered one of the greatest. Red Auerbach, you’ve heard of him right? He had Russell, Cousy, Havlicek, Don Nelson, Dave Cowens, etc. Auerbach………also one of the greatest. Rudy Tomjanovich and Olajuwon (the only coach Olajuwon had to bring out HIS best). I could go on.

Coaches are facilitators and players make plays. Give me some examples man.

It took adding Duncan and Poppovich to bring championships during Robinson’s era and it took Jackson during Jordan and Kobe’s era (other factors as well), but the bottom line is that it takes a great coach to bring out the greatest in players.

Wow SAS stirred up a hornet’s nest, I will say if we are going to call Pop and R.C. a genius for drafting Parker and Ginobili then they have to take the blame for moves that don’t work out.

Jefferson was a mistake it’s obvious they didn’t think that move through. I suppose they thought he could come in and play a Sean Elliot type role. Be a good perimeter defender and a third or fourth scoring option the problem is he’s never shown that he’s capable or willing to perform that role with his previous clubs.