San Antonio • There was a curious thing on Quin Snyder’s face seconds after his team faltered in a gutty 124-120 loss on Friday night.
It wasn’t for the game’s result, but it was for the victor of the game, Gregg Popovich, who came over to embrace him after the two coaches and two players threw everything they had at one another for 53 minutes.
As the TV cameras trained on Popovich, the mentor, and Snyder, the mentee who made good, at least two words could be made out from Snyder’s mouth: “Good job.”
The stakes were high for both the Spurs and the Jazz, and so it wouldn’t be right to say Snyder was having fun.