Spurs: Manu Ginobili is erratic, but extremely effective.

SAN ANTONIO — Within a 43.7-seconds span Monday, Manu Ginobili had Gregg Popovich keeled over, thinking about taking a three-point stance, and then jumping, hugging and rubbing sweaty heads.

Welcome to the wild, wacky relationship of the San Antonio guard and his head coach.

“I went from wanting to trade him on the spot to wanting to cook him breakfast,” Popovich said. “That’s the truth. I stopped coaching him a long time ago.”

As Ginobili is wont to do, he nearly drove Popovich mad in the team’s Western Conference semifinal game against the Warriors by launching a 30-footer with a three-point lead and plenty of time remaining on the shot clock in the final 45 seconds of the second overtime in Game 1.

He redeemed himself with 1.2 seconds remaining, when he drilled the game-winning three-pointer off an inbounds play that wasn’t designed for him to take a 129-127 victory.

“I wasn’t even an option,” Ginobili said. “They told me to go set a screen and stay far away from the play. The play was for Tony (Parker) or Boris (Diaw), and the (Warriors) got confused. Two went with Tony, and I was waving at Kawhi (Leonard) because I was wide open. He passed it and I didn’t have another option. “I just had to shoot it.” Tim Duncan on Tuesday said, “It’s what you live with with Manu. Everything he does amazes me: his good stuff, his bad stuff. It’s what you learn to live with. He provides so much of a different face.

“People can’t game plan for what he does.”