Rob Parker says that when he thinks of Gregg Popovich's legacy he thinks of the introduction to load management, not all the championships he won. Kelvin Washington disagrees citing Popovich's player development and culture setting skills.
Rob Parker:
"When I think of Pop I'm gonna be honest. I don't think of the most wins by a coach. I don't think about the five championships. I think about the most influential thing that Pop did was negative towards the NBA and hurt fans and that is load management and the worst part about Pop doing that load management is it worked! He rested players and they kept winning. Everybody followed his lead. It was one of the worst things to ever happen to the NBA. It made people question whether or nor they wanted to buy tickets. Whether or not we could believe that if we go there to the ballpark or stadium that we know guys are playing and he's the author of it. That's what I think about."
Kelvin Washington:
"I definitely think load management is something he did and you mentioned it that he was successful with it. He knew how to do it. It reminds me of Steph Curry. Well it wasn't Steph. It's that everybody felt they could be Steph and they followed along and they ain't doing it right and you got terrible people shooting threes and it's the same thing with coach Popovich. Everybody is not doing it right, everybody isn't even winning at the radius where at least they could justify it. Ya'll aren't winning like that...I look at Popovich as a culture creator. He created a culture in San Antonio. He also developed players. Tony Parker was this young French player who wasn't really tough enough or ready for the NBA and molded him into a great player. Same with Manu Ginobli and Kawhi. He also won in three decades. The late 90',s, to 2000's, into 2010's that's incredible, remarkable, and impressive."