Speaker 1: Ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls.
Speaker 2: Basketball fans, San Antonio Spurs fans, Welcome to another edition
Speaker 2: of the San Antonio Spurs Weekly Popcast.
Speaker 1: I like that. I thought you would.
Speaker 3: With your host, a fan of the Black and Silver
Speaker 3: of over forty years, a former stand up comedian and
Speaker 3: entertainer for twenty and now our host here he is
Speaker 3: k Dizzle.
Speaker 1: Still going with the sizzle. Huh why not?
Speaker 3: I like it?
Speaker 1: Welcome everybody to another episode of the San Antonio Spurs
Speaker 1: Weekly Podcast. Witch your boy Katie. That's right, and you
Speaker 1: know it is a special show here today we had
Speaker 1: to interrupt our weekly operations schedule. You guys are getting
Speaker 1: two podcasts for the price of one this week. Make
Speaker 1: sure you check us out on Wednesday. And as mister
Speaker 1: movie so Phone said at the top of the show,
Speaker 1: this is our weekly dedication show and our weekly popcast.
Speaker 1: I like that. I love your little flavor on that.
Speaker 1: I knew you would have worked on it all week.
Speaker 1: It shows our weekly Popcast. Guys. We're going to dedicate
Speaker 1: this show to the legendary coach Greg Popovich. And on
Speaker 1: Wednesday we have another show dedicated to another legend, David
Speaker 1: the Admiral Robinson. Don't miss that show, and we're going
Speaker 1: to break down what some of you guys are saying
Speaker 1: on Twitter and X the good, the bad, the stupid.
Speaker 1: We're going to go over as well, and we're going
Speaker 1: to dispel any rumors about any possible trades here in
Speaker 1: San Antonio. All that to come on Wednesday show. But
Speaker 1: let's get right into it and let's talk about legendary
Speaker 1: coach Greg Popovich twenty nine years. As you've seen the
Speaker 1: reports over the last several days, he has decided to retire,
Speaker 1: hang up his nikes, hang up his coaching loafers, and
Speaker 1: decide to move off into the sunset. But it's not
Speaker 1: really the sunset really here in San Antonio. He will
Speaker 1: be taking over the presidential basketball operations here in San Antonio.
Speaker 1: He will be like the proverbial Wizard of Oz behind
Speaker 1: the curtain. He will be paying no attention to the
Speaker 1: pop behind the curtain because that's him just working his magic.
Speaker 1: And we are so blessed to continue to have Greg
Speaker 1: Popovic in the organization for the growth of this new
Speaker 1: generation of players here, Victor Wembanyama, Daron Fox, so on,
Speaker 1: and so forth. The cell so handkj Castle and more.
Speaker 1: This was an interesting announcement. The Spurs have been in
Speaker 1: the news since we've got Victor Wembanyama. Now we have
Speaker 1: another Rookie of the year. Legendary coach goes down at
Speaker 1: the beginning of the year, then our star goes down
Speaker 1: throughout halfway through the year. It has been an interesting,
Speaker 1: drama filled Spurs two years here in San Antonio, but
Speaker 1: it's been very drama filled for over twenty nine years
Speaker 1: here in our city. As Greg Popovich is put together
Speaker 1: a record that is on the mount Rushmore of coaches.
Speaker 1: Let's just call a spade as paid red Auerbach, himself,
Speaker 1: Phil Jackson, pat Riley, and you can throw in a
Speaker 1: whole list of others in that fifth spot. Greg Popovich
Speaker 1: to twenty nine seasons. He has a record of twenty
Speaker 1: two to ninety one and fourteen and twenty two, putting
Speaker 1: himself at a sixty two percent win clip. And of
Speaker 1: course we had twenty two seasons where we've made the
Speaker 1: playoffs here in San Antonio. He had twenty plus seasons
Speaker 1: with fifty wins or more. That is a legendary career.
Speaker 1: But Greg Popovich decides to hang up those loafers. What
Speaker 1: is next? We already said he is working on the
Speaker 1: basketball Operations title. I love that his brain will still
Speaker 1: be in the organization and Victor Wembinyama will still get
Speaker 1: a chance to pick his brain from time to time,
Speaker 1: and this is what a lot of these younger players
Speaker 1: are going to need. Wemby has already committed himself to
Speaker 1: the Spurs, and I'll tell you why. One of the reasons.
Speaker 1: He just bought a huge mansion here in the San
Speaker 1: Antonio area, fully equipped like Tony Stark, as we had
Speaker 1: discussed in recent episodes. And when you put that a
Speaker 1: much money and time into something like that, you're planning
Speaker 1: on being here a very long time. I also saw
Speaker 1: Victor wembin Yama interview Steph Castle about his Rookie of
Speaker 1: the Year award. Go check that out on YouTube, and
Speaker 1: he just seemed like, I'm ready to be a Spur.
Speaker 1: We got a lot of work here to do, Steph,
Speaker 1: and they're both most definitely agreeing with each other. And
Speaker 1: I love that the camaraderie in San Antonio is because
Speaker 1: of Greg Popovich. This has happened over twenty years. He's
Speaker 1: developed a culture. When we had the losing ways in
Speaker 1: the eighties and the late eighties, we tried to bring
Speaker 1: in coaches like a Larry Brown who was hot at
Speaker 1: the time, and Larry got us to the playoffs. But
Speaker 1: because of David Robinson draft as well as the rookie
Speaker 1: of the Year in the nineties, let's call a spade
Speaker 1: a spade there then bringing in a lot of talent
Speaker 1: like Terry Cummings, Maurice Cheeks, veterans right, kind of seeing
Speaker 1: ourselves in that similar prediction, A lot of you guys
Speaker 1: wanted us to go out and go get a big
Speaker 1: name coach. Go get the guy from Minnesota, Go get
Speaker 1: the guy from Denver. Do this?
Speaker 2: Do that?
Speaker 1: They all know the Spurs system and Popovich steps down,
Speaker 1: and who does he give the keys to the throne
Speaker 1: to Mitch Johnson and a lot of you guys out
Speaker 1: there in the social media world are absolutely ridiculous against
Speaker 1: this guy. Let's call a spur a spur, and let's
Speaker 1: look at the silver lining first. Okay, the silver lining
Speaker 1: is that the Spurs won more games than they did
Speaker 1: the year before and we didn't even have our star
Speaker 1: players toward the end of the season. This is the
Speaker 1: equivalent of two years ago. We keep nailing this into
Speaker 1: your heads. Remember when vasel kJ and all them went
Speaker 1: down and it was Victor's team for eleven games. They
Speaker 1: got a chance to see what Victor could do well.
Speaker 1: Victor and the rest of the crew got a chance
Speaker 1: to see what the other guys could do. At the
Speaker 1: end of the season, including Steph Cassel, who wins Rookie
Speaker 1: of the Year runner up in the Dunk Contest. Sky's
Speaker 1: the limit for the Spurs. The NBA is on notice
Speaker 1: and when the draft comes, this is going to be
Speaker 1: a scary moment for the league. The Spurs have tons
Speaker 1: of picks they could give up. I just hope they
Speaker 1: don't give up the house for somebody's contract. That will
Speaker 1: be huge. We've done that before when Robinson came in.
Speaker 1: We don't want to do that again. We'll get there
Speaker 1: at another time, and with a basketball mind like Greg
Speaker 1: Popovich behind the scenes, I don't believe he's going to
Speaker 1: allow that to happen. But the NBA today is acting
Speaker 1: kind of like Greg Popovich passed away. He's just moved
Speaker 1: on people, all right, and just not toward the light
Speaker 1: just yet. Okay continued prayers out to his health and family.
Speaker 1: He's got a great support group with the team and
Speaker 1: his family as well, and Popovich has gone through a
Speaker 1: lot of stuff over the last ten years. And by
Speaker 1: the end of this show, we're going to tell you
Speaker 1: how we really feel about Greg Popovich as well with
Speaker 1: our dedication to him, and some of you Spurs fans
Speaker 1: may be like Ruds, I can't believe he said that.
Speaker 1: And that's my best Scooby I can give you today
Speaker 1: because we've been doing a lot of podcasts over the
Speaker 1: last couple of weeks here with this show and our
Speaker 1: sister show, Let's get biblical with Kad as well. However,
Speaker 1: the NBA do have their respects to Greg Popovich and
Speaker 1: why not start with the King. I know we're not
Speaker 1: big Lebron fans around here, but here's what Lebron had
Speaker 1: to say about Greg Popovich in his mind on the
Speaker 1: Steve Nash Show.
Speaker 4: When you play the Spurs, not only are you trying
Speaker 4: to defeat the Hall of Fame players, you're also trying
Speaker 4: to defeat the Hall of Fame coach.
Speaker 5: Was Papa spy in the military, like he spoke Russian?
Speaker 4: Yeah, for sure.
Speaker 5: I always felt like there was a little bit of
Speaker 5: a disadvantage.
Speaker 4: You can sense it like, okay, I have the guard Tony, Manu, Timmy,
Speaker 4: and then you know you see, okay, maybe they may
Speaker 4: be a little tired of this quarter maybe, And then
Speaker 4: you looked at the sideline and you got Pop over there,
Speaker 4: and he's like on the floor as well. We're standing
Speaker 4: on the sideline, you know. So when it comes to
Speaker 4: like Greg Papovis's team, you know, we have to beat them, right,
Speaker 4: They're not going to beat themselves.
Speaker 1: And those were the great things about the Spurs when
Speaker 1: Popovich was the coach, when you saw those early teams
Speaker 1: start to gel. And I think that's why US Spurs
Speaker 1: fans right now got a little bit upset when we're
Speaker 1: seeing him leave and Mitch Johnson come in. I just
Speaker 1: want you to understand something, guys, Mitch Johnson has been
Speaker 1: underneath Greg Popovitch for years. The keys are handed to
Speaker 1: a guy that's been in the kingdom for a while.
Speaker 1: Becky Hammond moved on, Steve Kerr moved on. We've seen
Speaker 1: all these coaches that were in the Spurs system underneath
Speaker 1: Popovich become great coaches, kind of like Bill Belichick in
Speaker 1: the NFL. He's had a lot of great coaches that
Speaker 1: have moved on and had decent careers, and a lot
Speaker 1: of them are not even done yet. Neither are some
Speaker 1: of those Spurs coaches that were here many many years ago.
Speaker 1: But for us to go out and get a legendary
Speaker 1: coach to replace a legendary coach, eh, You see, Mitch
Speaker 1: Johnson is playing with house money right now, and that's
Speaker 1: what we need a Spurs fans. We need someone to
Speaker 1: play with house money now. Mitch can implement some of
Speaker 1: his things a little more. You know, Papovich had his
Speaker 1: hands and things last year. Mitch would be allowed the
Speaker 1: reins to the kingdom a little bit. And I'm sure
Speaker 1: Papovich was like, whoa, whoa back on this play well,
Speaker 1: back on this situation. Hey, you should have done this
Speaker 1: or A B and C. And Mitch, being the smart
Speaker 1: guy that he is from Stanford, that is going to
Speaker 1: soak in like a sponge and it just does. Let's
Speaker 1: take another little clip. Listen to a Spurs legend in
Speaker 1: his own right. I'm joking r J. Richard Jefferson. Here's
Speaker 1: what ESPN and Richard Jefferson had to say about Popovich.
Speaker 6: Breg Popovich will forever go down as one of the
Speaker 6: best to ever do it. So let's check out the
Speaker 6: Top of the Top, brought to you by Nintendo Switch
Speaker 6: to Pop's best moment. Starting December fourteenth, ninety six, Greg
Speaker 6: Popovich captured his first win as head coach for the
Speaker 6: San Antonio Spurs in a thriller versus the MAVs. Perk,
Speaker 6: I mean, will you remember this moment with Aby.
Speaker 4: Johnson And I'll remember, But let me say this, when you
Speaker 4: make Top of the Top as a head coach, Diaz
Speaker 4: the ultimate.
Speaker 6: Lex Up next is the ninety nine NBA Finals. Pop
Speaker 6: and the Spurs eliminated the Knicks in five games to
Speaker 6: win their first NBA championship in Franchai's history. It fast
Speaker 6: forward fifteen years later, emotions overwhelming Pop and the Spurs
Speaker 6: as they eliminated Lebron James and the Heatles to capture
Speaker 6: their fifth NBA title, And of course, the legend had
Speaker 6: to remind them that he had what like five of them?
Speaker 6: Thanks then five one, two, three four. That was beautiful.
Speaker 6: And of course, Popovich's national team career culminated as the
Speaker 6: head coach of the twenty twenty US Olympic team that
Speaker 6: went on to win gold in Tokyo. Afterwards, He described
Speaker 6: the experience as the most responsibility I've ever felt, strong
Speaker 6: words for a career as successful as he is. And
Speaker 6: in twenty twenty two, Greg Popovich passed Don Nelson as
Speaker 6: the winning this coach in the history of the NBA
Speaker 6: with one thousand, three hundred and thirty six career wins,
Speaker 6: all with the Spurs, cementing his legacy, especially with his
Speaker 6: career simply one of the best to ever hold that title.
Speaker 6: I mean, what an incredible collection of moments. For more,
Speaker 6: Coach pop Perk get a perk stop it. We welcome
Speaker 6: in our brother, Richard Jefferson, who obviously played for Papovich
Speaker 6: from nine to twelve. Richard, how did Coach pop really
Speaker 6: change the course of your own career?
Speaker 7: Well, I want to say this, you know, first fall
Speaker 7: as a man, as a leader, That's who he is.
Speaker 7: That's what was so impressive about him. His approach to
Speaker 7: the game. He would get in there and we would
Speaker 7: have film sessions and he was like, yeah, we're down one. Oh,
Speaker 7: that's not a problem. You know what's a problem. A
Speaker 7: problem is these individuals that are fighting for their food,
Speaker 7: these individuals that are living in war torn He had
Speaker 7: an ability to even when you were under a tremendous
Speaker 7: amount of stress and pressure, you still felt blessed to
Speaker 7: be in the position of what you were doing. That's
Speaker 7: from like a personal side, from a player side. Greg
Speaker 7: Popovich helped transition my career individually and say, Richard, we
Speaker 7: need you to become more of a percentage three point shooter.
Speaker 7: I shot forty percent for the first time in my
Speaker 7: career with the San Antonio Spurs, and that's what extended
Speaker 7: my career. That's what allowed me to be a more
Speaker 7: effective player up until year seventeen when I retired, if
Speaker 7: it wasn't for him and Chip England having that impact
Speaker 7: saying Richard, this is the next portion of your career.
Speaker 7: So I am forever grateful for him for his teaching,
Speaker 7: for his ability to just put.
Speaker 1: Okay, that's enough with Richard Jefferson right there. Everybody cuts
Speaker 1: port RJ off, so I figured we'd do it here
Speaker 1: on the show as well. Richard. If you're out there, listen, RJ.
Speaker 1: Little Bill, as my mom would call you, remember a
Speaker 1: little Bill with I know we don't want to mention
Speaker 1: Bill Cosby around here, but little Bill on PBS, he
Speaker 1: looks like little Bill. Go google Little Bill in RJ,
Speaker 1: and of course Richard Jefferson's one of the great San
Speaker 1: Antonio Spurs that came through here, played with Popovich with
Speaker 1: some great reminiscing remarks right there. Even Kendrick Perkins, who
Speaker 1: this is a guy. Let me be honest with you.
Speaker 1: I'm like Charles Barkley, I don't know how Kendrick Perkins
Speaker 1: has got a job with inside the NBA. I just don't.
Speaker 1: I really really don't. That's like given Shannon Sharp his
Speaker 1: own show. Oh was was that too much? That was
Speaker 1: a little too much right there? But if you just
Speaker 1: tuned in, make sure you rewind the episode as we
Speaker 1: are being dedicated to Greg Popovich. This is our San
Speaker 1: Antonio Spurs Weekly Popcast, our dedication to him, and of
Speaker 1: course the NBA had a lot to say about Greg Popovich.
Speaker 1: What about me? Some of you guys have emailed me
Speaker 1: at kd SA bookings at yahoo dot com. Again, that's
Speaker 1: KDSA Bookings at yahoo dot com. Some of you guys
Speaker 1: have sent me messages on YouTube, Tube, Twitter x and
Speaker 1: in our email box, and we would love to know
Speaker 1: your thoughts. Katie. Well, let me give you a little
Speaker 1: bit of a story. Okay, before Greg Popovich was here.
Speaker 1: I was during the era of Bob Weiss, Lee Rose.
Speaker 1: Do you guys remember those guys? Sure you don't, eighty seven,
Speaker 1: eighty eight, eighty six Spurs, Alvin Robbinson, Larry Christobiac Ed Neely,
Speaker 1: Greg Cadillac, Anderson, Johnny Moore. I was a part of
Speaker 1: that group as a Spurs fan. And you younger generation
Speaker 1: are like, huh, you just pulled your best Kendrick Lamar
Speaker 1: on me. You're like, huh, yeah, go google it, kids,
Speaker 1: go google Magic, my friends. I was a huge Spurs fan,
Speaker 1: still is to this day, and we have a pennant
Speaker 1: here in our office in our studios from that era. Now,
Speaker 1: I saw a lot of bad basketball at that time,
Speaker 1: but a lot of decent players, players that could have
Speaker 1: been eventual stars, but just the stars didn't the line
Speaker 1: at that time because you we were in an era
Speaker 1: of Larry Bird, Magic Johnson, Julius Irving. These guys were
Speaker 1: dominant in the league and the Spurs had only been
Speaker 1: a young organization in the NBA for about ten years, Okay,
Speaker 1: and I missed the NBA Spurs dominant era. I ended
Speaker 1: up moving before nineteen ninety nine out of San Antonio.
Speaker 1: I remember reading about the Spurs a lot. I lived
Speaker 1: in New York, so we know how that is a
Speaker 1: lot of Knickerbocker fans up there. And I'm a Spur
Speaker 1: and I'm hearing it all. We saw a video on
Speaker 1: TikTok last week. We're a Spurs fan and a k
Speaker 1: next game or when Binyama Jersey get punched in the face.
Speaker 1: Really classy New York, by the way, Really classy New
Speaker 1: York's about to get punched in the face by the Celtics,
Speaker 1: by the way, in the playoffs. But that's another story
Speaker 1: another time, all right. But we'll see if Jalen Brunson
Speaker 1: Berner see what they did. There will be heating up
Speaker 1: for the Knicks and see if he can get them
Speaker 1: past the Celtics. But with that being said, Popovich comes in.
Speaker 1: I didn't know much about Popovich. Knew he was an
Speaker 1: assistant coach under Larry Brown, who was an assistant coach
Speaker 1: under a few other player coaches as well. And the
Speaker 1: Spurs kind of did something that everybody wants us to
Speaker 1: do right now and go out get that big proverbial coach.
Speaker 1: But we kept it in the house and Greg Popovitch
Speaker 1: didn't have a good intern year. A lot of you
Speaker 1: guys may not think Mitch Johnson has a good intern year,
Speaker 1: but I believe he did. To get the Spurs about
Speaker 1: thirty wins and an opportunity to spoil some teams positioning
Speaker 1: in the Western Conference for the playoffs. We did just that.
Speaker 1: So let's leave that there and leave us fade as faded.
Speaker 1: But as that big rant run came for the San
Speaker 1: Antonio Spurs in ninety nine, three oh seven, and fourteen,
Speaker 1: I was not there. I do blame my wife the
Speaker 1: year that the Ray Allen shot was hit, though it
Speaker 1: was her first year ever, buying a Spurs jersey was
Speaker 1: a monogenobleigue. Girl's spark jersey. Ladies know how you do
Speaker 1: it up out there. And of course she puts it
Speaker 1: on on the Spurs lose and I told her, you're
Speaker 1: never going to put a Spurs jersey on it again. Never.
Speaker 1: All right, during these losing Susis seasons, this is your
Speaker 1: time start wearing jerseys. I'll let you do that, okay.
Speaker 1: Kind of reminds me of the wedding, say er take
Speaker 1: off my Van Hanlen shirt before the band breaks up.
Speaker 1: That was kind of like my wife. But I got
Speaker 1: to see all this run. I got to see the
Speaker 1: Kawhi Leonard Era, I got to see the Duncan Chenobli,
Speaker 1: Mario elie Or and the list goes on and on,
Speaker 1: the ones that allowed us to win that many titles.
Speaker 1: And as we started the top of the show with
Speaker 1: we could have won five in a row, I believe,
Speaker 1: I believe we should have won and O two and
Speaker 1: one and O six And with that being said, that
Speaker 1: would have been five straight years. But the Spurs were
Speaker 1: a dynasty ninety nine oh three, five, seven, and fourteen
Speaker 1: five championships and of course we dropped that one six times.
Speaker 1: We were in the NBA underneath Greg Popovich. This is
Speaker 1: why he is a legendary coach. That's my thoughts on Papovich.
Speaker 1: We love you as a coach, love you as a person.
Speaker 1: I love some of the things that you say on
Speaker 1: the sidelines. We'll bring that up at the end of
Speaker 1: the show, so don't miss that. But I was not
Speaker 1: a fan of his politics. I was not a fan
Speaker 1: of when he would bring the politics in. I was
Speaker 1: not a fan that when he would get on the podium,
Speaker 1: and we want to know what happened in that game,
Speaker 1: Why this happened, Why that we want to know the
Speaker 1: x's and o's, that's why you're there. And he decides
Speaker 1: to say, well, I believe in this, and I believe
Speaker 1: in that, and I think that you should do this,
Speaker 1: and we're in a generation of that turned me off
Speaker 1: in a proverbial moment last year. You knew the old
Speaker 1: man was off his rocker just a little bit. I
Speaker 1: love you, Papovich, but we're roasting you at the same time.
Speaker 1: That's what Spurs fans do. I'm sorry, I am a
Speaker 1: forty year fan. I've kind of earned the badge a
Speaker 1: little bit. Last year when they were in the ear
Speaker 1: against the Clippers in the Kawhi Leonard moment, you fans.
Speaker 1: US fans started booing Kwi every time he had the ball,
Speaker 1: and it was just a dumb moment for Popovich to
Speaker 1: grab a microphone, call a time out and turn it
Speaker 1: into a perferbial open mic poetry night. I did not
Speaker 1: like that moment at all. US fans, yes, sometimes can
Speaker 1: get out of control, but you know who's the loudest
Speaker 1: it you bleach your bums up there. You guys are
Speaker 1: the ones that the loudest and get those cheers going
Speaker 1: the people in the front row, don't they act like
Speaker 1: it's a damn library At times they just do. And
Speaker 1: with that being said, you have a right to boo.
Speaker 1: That's what sports is about. You cheer for the people
Speaker 1: you like, you boo the people you don't. Kawhi Leonard
Speaker 1: had left a sour taste and a lot of our
Speaker 1: mouths the way he left, the way he treated our staff,
Speaker 1: the way he treated the medical team. Then many years later,
Speaker 1: we draft a kid by the name of Victor wemen
Speaker 1: Yama who has a possible life threading injury, and he says,
Speaker 1: the medical staff has been fantastic. But we're not going
Speaker 1: to go into Kawhi today. We're not going to go
Speaker 1: into cry Leonard. We're not going to do all that.
Speaker 1: It is about Popovich. But I believe that Popovich's politics
Speaker 1: that should be a new show on CNN. By the way,
Speaker 1: Popovich's politics, and there's a time and a place for that.
Speaker 1: There's a time and a place for that. There's a
Speaker 1: lot of social media outlets, there's a lot of outlets
Speaker 1: that would love to have him on the show talk
Speaker 1: about that kind of thing. I don't think it was
Speaker 1: the right time even though we were living in an
Speaker 1: era in twenty twenty, going through BLM, LGBTQ, ABCDFG, all
Speaker 1: that stuff going on, it wasn't the time. It really
Speaker 1: wasn't the time or place because we were trying to
Speaker 1: escape from it in sports. Were in an escape at
Speaker 1: that time. But neither here nor there. Greg Popovich goes
Speaker 1: down as a fantastic man, a fantastic leader in and
Speaker 1: out of the court, in the community, out of the community.
Speaker 1: He is going to be the legend in this town
Speaker 1: for many, many years to come. Just like Lakers have
Speaker 1: pat Riley just Lake, the Celtics have Red Auerbach, Phil
Speaker 1: Jackson in Chicago and many other places that have their
Speaker 1: coaches etched in stone, so will Greg Popovitch. And by
Speaker 1: the way, Spurs organization, Spurs organization, I'm calling you out
Speaker 1: right now. Michael Jordan has a bronze statue in the
Speaker 1: front of their arena. We will have a new multi
Speaker 1: billion dollar facility put here in San Antonio. The ground
Speaker 1: has been breaked, broke on it. If you go by
Speaker 1: the Tower of America's right now, you'll see they're bringing
Speaker 1: down the old ut History Center. They're starting to bring
Speaker 1: it down. When you build this new facility for the
Speaker 1: Spurs and for the city. Please put a bronze statue
Speaker 1: of Greg Popovich up. Greg Popovich is gone, but his
Speaker 1: legacy will continue to rain. And it is so hard
Speaker 1: to say goodbye to yesterday. And we are going to
Speaker 1: leave you with a little bit of Boys to Men
Speaker 1: in the background with It's so hard to say goodbye
Speaker 1: to Yesterday, along with some of Greg Popovich's greatest sideline moments.
Speaker 1: You guys enjoy and we'll see you on the flip
Speaker 1: side Wednesday for an all new show right here on
Speaker 1: San Antonio Spurs Weekly Podcast with Katie. Stick around a
Speaker 1: little bit longer after the song because we do have
Speaker 1: a special shout out from Steve Kerr as well. God
Speaker 1: bless and remember, go Spurs Go.
Speaker 3: If Spurs coach Greg popus coach the second game and
Speaker 3: as many nights, how do you.
Speaker 1: Like the energy level of your team?
Speaker 5: That's far energy levels great worse shots in the history
Speaker 5: of basketball. See coach on the defensive d I held
Speaker 5: Lebron James without.
Speaker 8: A field goal in that first quarter?
Speaker 4: What are you guys doing to let me him?
Speaker 9: Listen?
Speaker 4: Hell, I don't know he's I think he's.
Speaker 3: Just getting into the game.
Speaker 1: It wasn't he kind of plan on my part?
Speaker 8: Let me tell you that.
Speaker 1: Say hi to Johnny Lennon.
Speaker 10: Thanks back in Dallas with the Spurs up fifteen, Sir,
Speaker 10: I promise if you answer with more than seven words,
Speaker 10: there will only be one question.
Speaker 1: I just want you to be happy. Coach, I answer
Speaker 1: a question.
Speaker 10: Yeah, talk about Kawhi Leonards. How has he improved so
Speaker 10: dramatically from the first time you he stepped foot in
Speaker 10: San Antonio.
Speaker 1: To now Chef England and Chad for seer.
Speaker 10: Amen, So true?
Speaker 1: Good luck those seconds? Give me no, I don't want
Speaker 1: to ye. Heather Gonna sat.
Speaker 10: Heather Cox took three in our last game. You only
Speaker 10: get one today?
Speaker 5: All right, Well, you.
Speaker 9: Gotta be very happy with to play so forty game
Speaker 9: from your guys coming up the bench. So I think
Speaker 9: they're playing pretty well in transitioned and we're making some shots.
Speaker 1: We're ahead, so that's.
Speaker 8: A good thing.
Speaker 2: Do you like the pace that a game?
Speaker 1: We have to have a good pace. If we play
Speaker 1: half court, their defense is too good.
Speaker 3: Our only shot is to keep the pace going.
Speaker 1: Who's the one guy who has to flip?
Speaker 2: Third question?
Speaker 1: And you just get two?
Speaker 2: My bad.
Speaker 1: Well, coach in the regular season. Robin corner was the preseason, right,
Speaker 1: we got to do this in the preseason.
Speaker 5: Are you kidding me?
Speaker 9: The preseason we got to do this, and the preseason
Speaker 9: after rehearsal.
Speaker 4: Get ready, I need to practice.
Speaker 1: God, what was your biggest challenge during this preseason? Oh
Speaker 1: my gosh.
Speaker 3: Uh get into the restaurant on times.
Speaker 9: Here you got the starting five attack, but we see
Speaker 9: Marco Belinelli. How much impack will.
Speaker 4: He have in the rotation?
Speaker 2: Uh?
Speaker 1: You know he's I have to find him playing time.
Speaker 1: He's a good high IQ player, so I'll have to
Speaker 1: use it. It's not the preseason, but good season questions.
Speaker 1: That's two okay, you just see it.
Speaker 5: Welcome back to San Antonio where the game is tied
Speaker 5: after three pop.
Speaker 1: You got good ball movement throughout this quarter.
Speaker 5: How happy were you when the shot selection even though
Speaker 5: they came back?
Speaker 2: Happy?
Speaker 1: Reasonable?
Speaker 2: Happy?
Speaker 1: Happy, He's not a word that we think about in
Speaker 1: the game. You gonna think of something different. Happy. I
Speaker 1: don't know how to judge happy. We're in the middle
Speaker 1: of the contest.
Speaker 3: Nobody's happy.
Speaker 5: I know you want to get Tony and Tim some
Speaker 5: rest in the fourth quarter. How long do you think
Speaker 5: you get old about before you bring up back? Well,
Speaker 5: you know, without them, we'll have a tough time obviously,
Speaker 5: so we'll just try to judge it as best as
Speaker 5: we can come up with a better word than happened
Speaker 5: next time.
Speaker 8: Back for the start of the fourth quarter.
Speaker 1: Thoughts, Boba, that's your thoughts on the third quarter?
Speaker 9: We're behind? Because to what are your thoughts when Tim
Speaker 9: Duncan went down and was there any hesitation of putting
Speaker 9: him back in No so that they concerned that this
Speaker 9: might tighten up at halftime or maybe not allowed to
Speaker 9: play tomorrow.
Speaker 1: I know, I don't think so.
Speaker 8: Thanks?
Speaker 1: What do they.
Speaker 8: Both plead for? Pop and San Antonio? They both coached
Speaker 8: under the Hall of Famer as well, he May with
Speaker 8: the Spurs, Kerr with Team USA before eventually taking over
Speaker 8: the reins for the Red, White and Blue, and they
Speaker 8: both coached against him as well, sharing the sidelines with
Speaker 8: the man who coached them inside the lines. Before Kerr
Speaker 8: and Udoka took to their respective benches in tonight's game,
Speaker 8: which is their biggest of their respective seasons, it took
Speaker 8: a little bit of time to pay their respects and
Speaker 8: to reflect on coach Pop.
Speaker 5: Pop is one of the most important people in my
Speaker 5: life for many, many reasons, and most of them go
Speaker 5: way beyond basketball. But it's a sad day, it's also
Speaker 5: an encouraging day, I think, because I think this is
Speaker 5: a natural transition for him organizationally to move into his
Speaker 5: next role.
Speaker 4: The uphare all the night if I told all the
Speaker 4: stories and all the impact, But obviously as a professional,
Speaker 4: you know, I've played two and a half years from
Speaker 4: coach seven, so I've spent ten years of my life
Speaker 4: and yeah, but that's probably the least important.
Speaker 1: So the person.
Speaker 7: Aspect what you're talking about, and that.
Speaker 6: With me, the memory to be the Joe Nada, the Ray.
Speaker 2: It's a hat.
Speaker 8: To sagle Bite.
Speaker 1: Two days today.