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Posted on 6/12/13 at 10:11 am to TheCaterpillar
Posted on 6/12/13 at 10:16 am to Hat Tricks
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Pop is a huge a-hole....and it is hilarious.
This
Posted on 6/12/13 at 10:18 am to LSULyle00690
If I was a coach, and had to talk to these jerk off courtside reporters every game and answer their dumb, simple questions, I'd frick with them and I know most of you would too
Posted on 6/12/13 at 10:23 am to Spaulding Smails
Pop is a pure coach. He has never been a fan of interviews and all that in-game bs. He's been that way the whole time. At least he is genuine in who he is.
Posted on 6/12/13 at 10:25 am to TexasTiger08
Great coach, don't care.
Posted on 6/12/13 at 10:38 am to TexasTiger08
+ 1000. Pop is completely without artiface. He has built the most respected, well-run organization in American sports. His players love him, his colleagues admire and like him, and the city of San Antonio gets him.
In a sports world of attention whores and media clowns, he is a self-effacing breath of fresh air.
In a sports world of attention whores and media clowns, he is a self-effacing breath of fresh air.
Posted on 6/12/13 at 12:57 pm to Snakebucket
Here's another long but good read on Pop and the media.
LINK
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Rule No. 1 on how to ask Gregg Popovich a question: Do not ask if he’s happy. He’s not happy. There are no exceptions to this. Well, it’s possible that he might be happy when he’s with his wife or friends in the best restaurant in any given city (and it’s ALWAYS the best restaurant), drinking the right wine, talking about the world. But he’s not going to talk to you about that. As a basketball coach, he’s not happy. Ever.
Example 1 (David Aldridge on the sidelines): “Are you happy with …”
Pop: “Happy? Happy? Happy’s not a word we think about in the game.”
Example 2 (reporter before game in Los Angeles): “Are you happy that the playoffs are about to begin?”
Pop: “Happy is not a concept coaches are comfortable with.”
...You might expect Gregg Popovich would let a question go every now and again...But he cannot relent. Ever. He cannot let the questions go because at his core, Gregg Popovich -- wine connoisseur, reader of people, former Air Force captain and Division III coach, disciple of Larry Brown and Dean Smith, winner of 905 games and four NBA championships with the San Antonio Spurs -- has a deep and unrelenting sensitivity to stupidity. He cannot turn off that sensitivity. He will not turn it off, not now, not next week, not in Portland on a Tuesday or Utah two days later or back at home the next week. Bad question equals bad answer. Every time.
And so, when someone like TNT’s Craig Sager -- wearing some ridiculous suit -- wanders over between quarters to ask Pop how hesitant he is to pull Tim Duncan out of the game, well, he can’t help himself. Yes, of course, Pop COULD say: “We all know how great Timmy is but we have to get him his rest. We’re not all as young as we used to be Craig!” That’s all Sager wants. That’s all anyone wants from these sideline soirees. But, dammit, that question just gnaws at Pops intestines.
“I can’t play him 48,” he barks, and he stops cold, wielding silence, because that’s his greatest weapon against the brainlessness. Silence. Television can’t deal with silence. Reporters can’t do anything with silence. Pop, meanwhile, thrives in silence and always has. Once, when he was young, he longed to work top-secret intelligence in Moscow. He had the constitution for it. Instead, he became a basketball coach.
LINK
Posted on 6/12/13 at 12:59 pm to Party At LSU
Posted on 6/12/13 at 1:14 pm to LSULyle00690
I love it. And I love that Monty learned this from him. Some of the shite Monty says is hilarious. He says what's on his mind
Posted on 6/12/13 at 1:50 pm to LSULyle00690
He's the fricking man
Posted on 6/12/13 at 3:32 pm to Ostrich
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He's the Bill Bellicek of the NBA
I think Pop actually has a sense of humor whereas Bellicek doesn't.
Posted on 6/12/13 at 4:08 pm to LSU Piston
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