The godfather does not necessarily have to be as deep and cold as Marlon Brando, not angry, or like Popovich, although he looks like a strange old man, but he is admired for every word and deed.
Date of birth: January, 28 1949
Coaching career: 21 years
Teaching assistant career: 6 years
Regular season coaching win rate: 1141 wins and 499 losses
Playoff coaching wins: 158 wins and 98 losses
Highest honor in the playoffs: Overall champion
Best Coach: 3 times
Great things like Tim Duncan have brought the Spurs 19 glorious years, and even Popovich has confessed that Duncan is the soul of the team, and he will announce his retirement within ten minutes of Duncan's retirement.
But Popovich still stayed, in the first season without Duncan, his team is still firmly at the top of the league, in fact, he does not need to prove anything, he is already the first coach in the league today, even if he is put into the long river of history, he is definitely the best coach in the Pantheon.
The longest-serving coach of the same team in the four major leagues, and the oldest coach in the active league, he is a senior and irreplaceable leader in the hearts of Quds Fans;
19 consecutive seasons with a team winning rate of more than 60%, a thousand victories coach, five championship rings, 3 times the best coach of the year, he is a famous coach full of honors, a well-deserved winner;
The protégés trained are all over the league, and many teams are competing to emulate the Spurs' way of building the team, he is the teacher of Tao Li Manmen, and the predecessor admired by countless future generations.
How do you describe the personal image of this great coach? He is of former South descent, has a violent personality of a Balkan, and has led the Spurs' list of technical fouls for many years, and many times this old man looks more fleshy than the team's young players;
But he also has the cold humor characteristic of white Americans, and you won't find any more difficult interviewees than him, because you will find that the questions you have carefully prepared will be full of holes in his crooked sneer;
But he is also a cold-hearted person, and the heart-warming story he left behind in the alliance for more than twenty years will make people awe-inspiring him;
He has an army background and has a strong control over the team, but every player in the team respects him like a brother;
Everyone thinks it's one of the greatest combinations in history that made him, but there are plenty of examples where no one is better at tapping into the potential of players than he is.
He is 68 years old, and his coaches have changed batch after batch, and now the younger generation of coaches in the league, many of whom have "watched him grow up coaching on the sidelines", his health is not good, and there was bad news earlier that his skin cancer had recurred. But he didn't want to stop, and he couldn't stop. He still has a lot of challenges to take on, he has to lead the Spurs to complete the legacy in the post-GDP era, and he also has to take over the U.S. national team and become the leader of the dream team in the next cycle.
Everyone thought it was time for him to stop, but he seemed to feel that the challenge had only really begun, and perhaps the great personality would always be in a tireless hurry.
Players
Tim Duncan
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"Thank you Coach Popovich. In my heart you are not just a coach, to me, you are like a father. Thank you. ”
—Tim Duncan
Duncan put his greetings to Popovich at the end of his retirement ceremony, and everyone knew that this taciturn giant was never good at expressing such emotions in front of people, and the words were very simple, but the weight was a thousand pounds. Popovich was sitting upright there, and at this moment time froze, his eyes lit up, and he had infinite emotion in his heart. This is probably one of the greatest mentor-apprentice combinations in the league.
Teacher
Larry Brown
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"I don't think he's one of the best coaches in the league, I think he's one of the best coaches in all the sports of all time. He can improve the performance of his players, he loves to play, he gets along well with his colleagues, and his loyalty is incredible. I think that for people who are engaged in sports, every game he leads the team to play is an extremely rich teaching material. The Spurs did a good job of defending, knew how to pass the ball on offense, and did everything we talked about. ”
—Larry Brown
In the '70s, Popovich went to Brown's Nuggets for a trial, and while Brown didn't think Popovich had the strength to stay on the team, he felt he was impressed by the young man's basketball IQ. In the late 1980s, Popovich went to the University of Kansas to become Brown's assistant, and after Brown became the spurs' head coach, Popovich also went with him. In this regard, a legend began.