Gregg Popovich
Gregg Popovich
Gregg Charles Popovichis an American basketball coach who is currently the head coach of the San Antonio Spurs of the National Basketball Association. Taking over as coach of the Spurs in 1996, Popovich is the longest tenured active coach in both the NBA and all US major sports leagues. He is often referred to as "Coach Pop" or simply "Pop"...
ProfessionCoach
Date of Birth28 January 1949
CityEast Chicago, IN
detroit fortunate people played series seven
If you think about it and look back at the Detroit series, ... we played seven people, period. You have to be pretty fortunate to just play seven people in a series like that, so we can use more people, without a doubt.
composure kept team
The team kept their composure well when we were down.
emotional maybe tough
He's just had a tough time. Maybe it's emotional in some sense for him. I'm not sure.
farewell guy
You can only like the guy so much. After a while, it's 'OK, OK, we get it.' It's like a farewell tour.
people
It always has been that people didn't think we were for real,
beyond break difficult reasonable
I think it's a reasonable thought that if it went beyond the All-Star break that would make it difficult to do something.
final games gone good great last ready situations three time watched
In the three games we've watched them play, they've gone from a 2 to a 5 to an 8 on a 10 scale. They've got a great coach, they've been in these situations before, and they know how to get ready for the final round. By the time that comes, they're going to be as good or better as they were last summer.
mistake
Basketball's a game of mistakes.
kinda philosophy
Our philosophy here is kinda like participatory management,
trying
I try not to get impressed. I just try to look at what I see.
four offensive time within
Every time we got within four or five, they would get an offensive rebound.
ahead bit closer playing
We were playing a lot closer at the end of the season. They're a little bit ahead of us.
who-we-are way
The measure of who we are is how we react to something that doesn't go our way.
home nba-championships play
I'm pleased that they performed as well as they did while we've been in Miami and that's about as far as it goes. Now, we've got to go home and play as well or better.