http://www.youtube.com/watch?&v=7or145LgvX0

Pop was pretty harmless in this interview, but he reminds me of a very slightly nicer Bill Belichick. Both are great coaches (with the rings to prove it), but both can unnecessarily be asses to reporters.

Pop openly hates the interviews between the quarters because that is when he is supposed to be coaching.

He is really cool with reporters if they ask intelligent questions. He is a dick when they put no thought into it and ask a stupid question like "What happened on offense?"

I wouldn't take anything Holly Rowe says seriously either

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I wouldn't take anything Holly Rowe says seriously either

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This.

Pop DGAF.

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Pop DGAF.

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Haha why have I not seen this gif until now?

Wonder if Pop thought the Spurs had too many turnovers?

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Haha why have I not seen this gif until now?

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Cuz it's from the '99 Riverwalk parade before the interwebz were big.

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Pop was pretty harmless in this interview, but he reminds me of a very slightly nicer Bill Belichick. Both are great coaches (with the rings to prove it), but both can unnecessarily be asses to reporters.

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Belichick is an ass all the time to everyone. He treats his players like machines. He's a proven cheater in football and in relationships.

I know its tempting, but please don't compare Pop to Belichick. Pop is openly defiant to his NBA media obligations but by all accounts he's the ultimate players' coach and cares deeply about his guys both on and off the court.

More accurately, Pop hates dumb questions.

http://m.nbcsports.com/content/posnanski-why-never-happy-popovich-loved

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Jeff McDonald has been covering the Spurs for the San Antonio Express-News for six years now. He is often the sole newspaper reporter on the road covering the Spurs, which means that he has witnessed more Pop press clashes than just about anybody. Jeff says he likes Pop -- it’s all but impossible not to like Pop -- and thinks he might be the smartest person he knows in or out of basketball.

That’s not to say Jeff isn't frustrated by Pop’s moods, his grouchiness, his unwillingness to ever cut a questioner a break. Jeff does get frustrated sometimes. In those moments, he does what everyone does. He thinks: “Well, that’s just Pop.”

But he says there’s something else. Jeff says that sometimes, when he’s standing there waiting to ask Pop something, he will think of a question. And he will decide it’s not worded quite right. And so he will think of a different way to ask it, and then a different way, and then, sometimes, a DIFFERENT question emerges in his mind, a better one, a more challenging one, a more direct one, and that’s the question he asks. And every now and then -- not too often, but every now and then -- Pop will say: “That’s a good question.”

And when that happens, Jeff grudgingly admits, a part of him feels good. He doesn’t necessarily WANT to feel good about it, to admit that Pop motivated him to be better, but, dammit, that’s just what Pop does. It’s his gift. He might gripe, he might grumble, he might scream, he might recede into awkward silence. In the end, though, this never changes. As hopeless as it may be, everybody works harder to try and make Pop happy.

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