Your favorite Popovich Moments / Comments, etc.

[senorglory]

The pointed Hack-a-Shaq within first 5 secs of start of game (season), was a good one.

[VI_Massive]

the hack a shaq. the double thumbs up and smile were perfect.

[senorglory]

my favorite moment will be when he retires and sean elliott becomes coach

boo!

[Toni61]

the hack a shaq. the double thumbs up and smile were perfect.

Best moment I

[Bukefal]

The pointed Hack-a-Shaq within first 5 secs of start of game (season), was a good one.

yeahh this was hilarious!!

[Spursmania]

pop's shots at players are always memorable . . .

"kidd would have made that pass and come down and gotten that rebound." - pop to parker in the 2003-04 season after the kidd fiasco.

"last year we had someone not listen to instructions and that cost us the season so we need to be sharp." - pop in 2006-07 training camp giving a not so subtle dig to manu about the dirk foul.

ouch!!!

[Matches Malone]

I think this was after the spurs won it all in 2007 and a reporter asked him something about repeating the next year. Classic.

Great thread btw.

It was like this:

Q: "The only thing you've not been able to do during this run is repeat. Will this be a special motivation for next year?"
A: "I don't give a ."

Live in national TV right after the 4-0 winning game versus Cleveland.
The room exploded in laughts.

Yep, this is my best. Give two to the repeat and national broadcasting.

[JWest596]

Pop and Sean were walking around San Francisco during a CA (probably a GS) road trip and Pop passed a wine store and wanted to go in. Later Sean went looking for Pop in the store and found him on all fours scrounging on the bottom levels of the wine rack looking for "hidden wine finds".

Sean started laughing and Pop looked up and said to him: "I know it's a sickness". He then explained that this was where you could them.

But the real measure of the man is his humility and integrity. Years ago when Pop left the AF and began his basketball coaching career at Pimona Pitzer, a lower Division level though academically attuned school but an athletic doormat, he and his family lived in the dormitory for a few semesters, he drove the team bus early on and supervised campus intramurals. He wasn't wealthy, well known or 'silver spooned". He turned them into contenders and they even won their school's conference (twice I think) long before he teamed up with Larry Brown and Don Nelson before coming into the NBA or Spurs. That's why Pop is better than ex-player NBA coaches because he did the best with what he had and gave a maximum effort win or lose.

Can you imagine a Phil Jackson living in a dorm or driving the team bus? I have never heard a peer or player (perhaps Rodman) say a truly negative thing about his goals and values. And he could have left to go to some NBA teams long before and made millions more elsewhere.

He has been the best thing that has ever happened to the San Antonio Spurs.

[Budkin]

After they won the le in 2003 in the locker room before they popped open the bubbly, Pop said something to the effect of "that was the worst opening quarter I've ever seen!" and then all the players are like "but it was the best 4th!" and they all go nuts!