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In light of Greg Popovich's decision to step down as head coach of the Spurs.

This week, T.J. and Sam discussed the impact he's had on the game,

and specifically five learnings from his leadership you can apply to your own coaching.

Let's get started.

Welcome back to Harwood Hustle, Sam and T.J. with you today. T.J., I'm excited about what we're

going to talk about, and that's Greg Popovich, who recently stepped aside his head coach of the

Spurs and going to stay in the game. But he's a coaching legend.

And there's a lot of things we can draw and learn from Popovich's coaching and his leadership.

And we're going to unpack those in this show.

So, TJ, let's start out with this.

You know, we talked about several things pre-show that Popovich is known for, and we're going to boil it down to five of them.

The first one is that I think it's a big one. Personal relationships matter.

You look at his relationships with his players over the years from the outside, and it's apparent how strong they are.

If you watch how they interact, you watch them in interviews, you watch how his players talk about them. And in a pro or an NBA setting, what can be a transactional world and really in basketball or any sport can be transactional because it's so much about

winning and outcomes, it seems that Popovic doubled down on the personal relationships. What are

your thoughts? Yeah. You know, I mean, Popovich did a lot of things, I think, different than other

people. I think the thing that I'll remember most about him is that he just kind of blazed his own

trail and did things that a lot of people maybe thought you couldn't or shouldn't do.

And one of those things was, I mean, just player oriented.

I mean, he was known for being kind of a stickler on like, this is the standard and we're

going to hold the standard while balancing that with the relationships.

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