Mike Budenholzer on gratitude

In a very touching speech upon accepting the coach of the year award Mike Budenholzer, coach of the Atlanta Hawks, thanks his players, his staff, his father, his family, and Gregg Popovich. 

 "I was very very fortunate to be so close to a coach who has done so much for our league, done so much for so many coaches and has shared so much with me. I can't even begin to articulate how thankful i am of all the things I've learned. 

 But I thought the thing that Pop did for me, and did for a lot of coaches is he let me coach. And it seems really simple. And that's part of the beauty about being with Pop, being around Pop is sometimes the things that are most successful are very very simple and he let us coach. He let us coach with him and he always talks about how his players have allowed themselves to be coached by pop. 

 I think I speak for myself and a ton of my colleagues, it's a long list, that I get to speak publicly and thank pop for letting us coach with him and it prepared me for my opportunity, and you know I think that's ultimately what the role of a coach is, is to prepare his team, to prepare a player, or to prepare a person for their opportunity. and i just want to thank pop, for preparing me for this opportunity."
Would have to agree. Sometimes the most satisfying things are the simplest.

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