Denver competed for 48 minutes. After we spotted them 18 points, we decided to compete. That's just not good enough.
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He's always energized. Seriously. There's not one thing that makes him get going and makes him step it up a level. He plays at that pace all the time.Gregg Popovich
Karl Malone has yet to tell the Spurs whether he will play for them. The Spurs also haven't asked. Yet. Spurs coach Gregg Popovich said he would like to make any significant addition to the team no later than shortly after the All-Star break, which ends Feb. 20. The trade deadline is Feb. 24. The more time that goes by the more difficult it is, ... Regardless of whether it's Karl Malone, if we were to make a trade, if we were going to add somebody, I would think you would have to make any changes to your team at the latest by then to give everybody time to integrate.
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Good basketball teams have to do that if you want to be standing at the end of the year. You have to play through that sort of thing. There are several teams in the league capable of doing that. Hopefully, we're one of them.
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Our philosophy here is kinda like participatory management,
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If you think about it and look back at the Detroit series, ... we played seven people, period. You have to be pretty fortunate to just play seven people in a series like that, so we can use more people, without a doubt.
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That's the least of what we worry about. We've got a lot of things to be concerned with on our own team, and that's how we spend our time.
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