Coach Pop Pregame Media Availability - Spurs vs. Rockets  Dec.
28, 2012  (When asked if he thinks if the team benefited from
the practice time as of late…) “Every coach thinks that practice
helps them, because theoretically it should. Hopefully we get an
opportunity to go back and look at something and put them in the
rearview mirror for a while. You play game after game after game
and you slide back into some sloppiness in some areas. So
hopefully practice cures some of that. We all like to get a
little practice now and then.”  (When asked with a calf strain
to Gary Neal is it a luxury to have the depth that you have not
having to rush a guy back…) “Every team has 12, 13 or 14 guys,
so we all have other bodies you can put in. We’re no different
than anybody else. We all have the same number of guys. If
somebody is hurt then somebody plays. That’s the deal.”  (When
asked with the way the bench is structured with more scorers
then four or five years ago, does that put less pressure on Manu
Ginobili to be the s