NBA Playoffs 2014: San Antonio Spurs Coach Gregg Popovich's Secret: 'I Don't Say Nothing.' Sage Coach Will Let Players Make Decisions

The San Antonio Spurs' success is almost synonymous with Coach Gregg Popovich, one of the best in the game today.

Pop is known to be very secretive when it comes to his strategy, and he can be somewhat rude to the courtside interviewers. You wonder what words of wisdom Coach Pop shares in their huddles.

ESPN quotes San Antonio Express News to find out: "Sometimes in timeouts I'll say, 'I've got nothing for you. What do you want me to do? We just turned it over six times. Everybody's holding the ball. What else do you want me to do here? Figure it out/ And I'll get up and walk away. Because it's true. There's nothing else I can do for them. I can give them some bulls---, and act like I'm a coach or something, but it's on them."

From the outspoken and frank Pop, we can expect no less than this tirade: "I think competitive character people don't want to be manipulated constantly to do what one individual wants them to do/ It's a great feeling when players get together and do things as a group. Whatever can be done to empower those people."

Many people have the impression that coach Pop is a control freak. But during gametime, that could not be further from the truth: "If they're holding the ball, they're holding the ball. I certainly didn't tell them to hold the ball. Just like, if they make five in a row, I didn't do that. If they get a great rebound, I didn't do that. It's a players' game and they've got to perform. The better you can get that across, the more they take over and the more smoothly it runs."

To be fair to Coach Pop, he's not washing his hands. He is consistent that if he does not take the blame, he doesn't bask in the glory: "Then you interject here or there. You call a play during the game at some point or make a substitution, that kind of thing that helps the team win. But they basically have to take charge or you never get to the top of the mountain."

One would argue that it's easy to take that stance when you have Tim Duncan, Tony Parker and Manu Ginobili, some of the smartest players to ever play the game. But even Timmy has taken on a diminished role due to his age, and more young players are getting involved. It's unlikely that Pop will ever change.