Spurs’ head coach lets loose on Trump

San Antonio head coach Gregg Popovich was in fine form Sunday morning, bouncing from topic to topic, including how his team advanced in Game 6 of its previous series against Houston, a 114-75 victory Thursday night.

“We’re not that good, they’re not that bad,” he said. “It was a very weird night, for reasons none of us can grab on to. It’s like trying to figure out the presidency.”

That got a laugh, but Popovich revisited the subject later, much more seriously. He has not been shy about expressing his political views, noteworthy because he works in Texas and not the liberal Bay Area.

When Popovich was asked whether he has a hard time shutting out the outside world, he skewered the president without mentioning his name.

“Usually things happen in the world, and you go to work and you’ve got your family and you’ve got your friends

“I feel like there’s a cloud or a pall over the whole country.” Gregg Popovich, San Antonio head coach, on the Trump Administration

and you do what you do,” Popovich said.

“But I feel like there’s a cloud or a pall over the whole country. In a paranoid, surreal sort of way, that’s got nothing to do with the Democrats losing the election — it’s got to do with the way one individual conducts himself.

“That’s embarrassing. It’s dangerous to our institutions and what we all stand for and what we expect the country to be. But for this individual, he’s in a game show, and everything that happens begins and ends with him. Not our people or our country. Every time he talks about those things, it’s a ruse. It’s just disingenuous.”