It's never been my goal to be king of the prom. It's been my goal to do the right thing and get the job done.

We believe in people executing their role and caring about the team more than anything individually

Stop by stop by stop. Play aggressively. Sprint back on 'D' and pay attention to how we're supposed to guard as a team

A reporter started off: "I know a lot of this is kind of speculation." Popovich interupting: "You're going to ask me anyway." Reporter: "And you're going to shoot it down." Popovich replied: "Next question."

I asked them if it wasn't too much trouble, if I wasn't being too pushy, if they could execute what we were trying to do. And if it didn't make them too angry, if they also wanted to play some defense on the other end, that would be great.

You have to make shots to win basketball games and we didn't do that. You also have to get back on defense, so it was a double-whammy.

It's not about any one person. You've got to get over yourself and realize that it takes a group to get this thing done