You'll build.
Recording in progress.
It's water available.
I'm sorry it's Ronnie.
And DJ are out.
They expect DJ and Landale
to be back. Saturday
and find out. Tomorrow we get
back to see how they're doing.
Spurs are going to honor
Redmond homes Saturday night.
What was it like working for him early on?
His impact of you know,
goes well beyond the Spurs,
but he's always placed the Spurs number one.
You know, like I kind of figured,
not just in San Antonio, but in our state.
The Spurs would be there without him.
You know? David wouldn't
have been there without.
And beyond that, you know in colleges
and universities in Texas he's been.
A huge contributor and a big influence
for sure. You know my first job.
Was. Under him, and he's a.
A piece of work.
You you just fall in love with the guy.
He's bigger than life is
what I really mean by that.
I can move the first time he walked
to the gym and his big cowboy boots
and his fur coat and that big hat
and I had no idea where I had landed.
But I learned a lot from him and he's
special to a whole lot of people.
Complaints about.
Beyond the Vikings too,
to be ever stated,
yeah yeah they ever say to you.
They're in a horse that
can't be road and a cowboy.
They can't be throwed.
Yeah I think he told me that on the
plane flew up with him to the game.
Chris, Vince just said that
when I forgot about that,
you all know yeah yeah he was here.
Why? He's bigger than life?
Yeah, OK, yeah exactly.
Chris Finch just said that he when he
watches you guys play it feels like
he can see you having fun coaching.
This team.
Is that been the case this year with
the team that maybe not necessarily has
been in the championship conversation.
I don't know.
Shockingly, right,
but just in terms of that and and
and seeing these guys come together
as it has throughout the season.
Yeah, you know, when it's a completely
different group as we rebuild,
these guys are. Pretty darn young.
A couple of them are very young,
but really willing, they're just like.
OK. A young colt, you know,
just coming out and not really
knowing what direction to go in or
not having a lot of habits yet.
And those are all forming.
Everybody's starting to figure out what
it takes to win what it takes to lose
and mostly what you have to do on a
consistent basis to win in this league.
You know, it's hard to win an NBA game.
It doesn't matter who you are.
You could be, you know,
Phoenix or Milwaukee or Chicago.
Doesn't matter what the team
is on any given night,
anybody can win because a lot
of it is between the ears and
the mental part of the game.
So this year has been fun to be a part
of that I didn't have to do a whole lot
of that after a while with the last group,
it was like an autopilot,
you know.
I just made sure I showed up at the games,
but these guys are a little
bit different and it's a.
It's more challenging,
but it's more satisfying in
some ways to be a part of that.
Do you like the play in? Thing this
whole new thing or would you depends
where you're at.
If you're seven and eight,
you might not like it so much.
Yeah, you know.
So you you live with it,
everybody's got to do it so
you just do the best you can.
Chris Finch also just said that
he at the end of his first full
NBA season is exhausted and he
can't imagine what it is like.
After 26 NBA seasons,
how important was it for you to establish?
We always talk about players routines,
your routine to take care of
yourself so that you are at the
best your best self for the team.
Well, nobody's ever asked me that before.
Maybe it's the wine.
We went to dinner last night and
make sure that we enjoy ourselves.
So whenever we get a chance we'll
you know we'll do something social.
It might be socially just
fun or socially meaningful.
You know with the team or just with coaches.
So I try to make sure that.
The job is bigger than basketball.
It's one thing.
And beyond that,
you know we all try to work
out and stay in good shape,
but more than anything,
I think you just have to.
Be an organized person in the
sense of how you want to travel.
How you want to spend your time?
In between games in between practices.
What's the best, most efficient ways to?
Have your team like after a game.
We'll give them time.
When we leave the locker room.
And we're leaving.
We probably wouldn't have left Timmy,
but they'll leave me so
that we get the hell out.
In case it's a back to back the
next day or something like that.
So I think being really organized
as hell and having everybody
on the same page really helps.
And in that same line of question,
is there anything now that you
look back at when you look at your
second year of coaching that you
just know now you would do different
and would do different? Sure.
You know I have a kind of a
philosophy now that less is more.
And I wish I could have figured that
out a lot earlier where you're you're
busy trying to be the best coach that
ever walked the face of the earth.
So you think you have to know everything
and you have to watch more film.
And is that what a lot I learned
from Jerry Sloan? Like Phil?
That's what the assistance doing.
Then they give me an idea
and then I go with it.
You know you don't have to watch
all that film so it started to
click a little bit and you start
to figure out it's basketball.
It's not that tough.
We're all running the same place as
different people running the same place.
You know,
I would watch them alone in Stockton.
Run the same pick and roll 73 times
that night and they did it pretty
well so you realize you don't
need that extra 14 or 15 plays.
But when you're young you think you're
supposed to figure all this stuff out
and invent the wheel all over again,
so that's probably the major thing.
Have you seen Josh Richardson's
personality kind of global? From
absolutely, you know, he's we didn't
know what to expect when he came in.
We knew what he was like as a player,
but as not as a person too much other
than the limited Intel that we got.
But for whatever reason,
maybe because he's a little bit older
than the bulk of our players, he's.
Kind of taking over a little
bit of a leadership role.
He's got a great sense of humor.
The guys enjoy him and he's played well.
You know, we've had some lot of guys
in and out for weird little injuries,
and he's gotten playing time and
done a good job so he's helped us.
Good good evening.