SPURS POSTGAME QUOTES
Spurs Head Coach Gregg Popovich
(On the Moody Center…)
“I think it’s a great arena. I said that earlier in the shoot around this morning, it’s really situated well up on top of the fans. Great venue.”
(On Keita Bates-Diop…)
“He’s carving out an NBA career. In the beginning, it didn’t look like that. But he’s worked on his skills, his confidence, his aggressiveness, everything. I’m really proud of him.”
(On Julian Champagnie…)
“He hasn’t been here very long. But he obviously has a noise for the game. He understands spatial relationships out there and for a young guy he’s pretty impressive and he can shoot and that’s a pretty good thing these days in the league everywhere.”
(On the keys to the Spurs win tonight…)
“Made threes, made Stops, followed them up with threes. That’s how you win basketball games. No matter how you slice it, fourth quarter down the stretch, teams that make stops do pretty well and if you make threes on top of it, you're probably going to win.”
Spurs Forward Keita Bates-Diop
(On the shots he and Tre Jones made that energized the crowd…)
“You can kind of feel the crowd get more and more into it after Tre [Jones] made the three and then I hit mine. You could kind of feel that moment coming, so I just wanted to knock it down to regain the energy. We needed it as a team.”
(On Zach Collins' passing game…)
“He’s really good from that top spot. He knows the angles, knows how to lead guys. We had a good connection.”
Spurs Forward Keldon Johnson
(On what they did to pull out the win in the fourth quarter…)
“Defense. We had to get stops. We knew that throughout the game, we weren’t playing to our standards. We just locked in, just counted on everybody in the huddle, just really had to lock in as a group, got stops. Just made some great plays.”
(On the season overall…)
“There’s definitely been some ups and downs. We had some injuries, we had some really good times, we had some really poor times throughout the season. We won some games and lost some games, but I feel like every single person on the roster and every person that came through got better by being here. We have amazing player development, amazing coaches, amazing medical staff. Throughout the season, they kept us in the best shape we can be in. I feel like everybody that came through got better and just have to look at the silver lining. Obviously, we didn’t win thirty games, forty games, fifty games, but we got better as the year went through, and stayed together the whole time.”
