Wembanyama knows Popovich will come back 'earlier than he should'

Victor Wembanyama & Chris Paul say Spurs will 'play hard & compete' for Gregg Popovich during his health issue

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00:00Of course, I mean, of course, we all miss him, you know, we hope he's all right.

00:05We know he's going to come back.

00:06We know he's going to want to come back earlier than he probably should, but, you know, that's

00:13pop.

00:14You know, even if he's not with us right now, we still feel, we still try to apply what

00:20he's been trying to, you know, to teach us, and Mitch is doing a great job at, you know,

00:27putting, putting into coaching his own personality, too, and pushing us in his own way, you know.

00:36So yeah, we just, of course, we all want to see pop back, but it's our job to apply regardless

00:45of the conditions right now.

00:47I mean, I can't say it enough how, like, everyone within the team and the organization, like,

00:55we want to play hard and compete, like, for pop, you know, because he set a standard.

01:02You guys have seen it here for years, we all have, and so I think that's the thing that

01:05we want to try to focus on right now is going out there and play, because we know if we

01:10don't defend, we know we're going to hear about it.