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Coach Pop at the Improv

June 24, 2005 4:44 PM

Some of Gregg Popovich's comedic highlights from last night's post-game press conference (note--he is said to be a fine wine nut, which comes up at the end):

Q. I'm going to try this for the third time to ask you this question. COACH GREGG POPOVICH: Okay. Q. Now that you have three titles in seven years COACH GREGG POPOVICH: So bored of this. So boring. Q. Let me ask you this. COACH GREGG POPOVICH: Nobody cares. Q. About you? You always say COACH GREGG POPOVICH: Let's talk about Iraq or something that matters. But it doesn't matter. But go ahead, it's your deal. I'm supposed it sit here and answer. I apologize.Q. That's okay. It's part of the game. COACH GREGG POPOVICH: Thank you. Q. You always say that it's your job, and you have success if you don't mess it up. Can you assess what you did in the sidelines in this series, is it simply not messing it up, or is it actually mixing it up perhaps with defenses? COACH GREGG POPOVICH: I probably did some good things and I probably made some mistakes. I mean, don't you think that's fair? That's probably what happened. There were you know, you go back after a game, there's always something the next day, why did I do that, why did I do this. And probably we did something good and we want to continue to did it. It's always a little bit of both, but when you talk about those championships or credit and that kind of thing, that involves a lot of people. My staff is great. They have ideas that sometimes I don't even think of them. During the game tonight, I'm saying, we're going to, you know, Bruce will be (shaking head). So we change it. So really it's a participatory sort of thing, honestly, that we do. Everything can have an opinion. Obviously I have to make the final decision and we go with it, but I'm blessed with guys that have the character and judgment to know that when we decide something, that's what we are all going to do. Q. What wine are you going to celebrate this with? COACH GREGG POPOVICH: It's not going to be the champagne in the locker room. My eyes are burning, so it's pretty cheap stuff, so we have to find something different. (Laughter). We're playing these guys a lot of money, you would think the organization could buy some decent champagne. What's up with that? (Laughter).

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