Erik Spoelstra | Practice Interviews | November 28, 2025

Erik Spoelstra | Practice Interviews | November 28, 2025

How how beneficial was it? How much did you get done? It was good. We had a very good film session and we’re able to um get up and down and and work on some of the detail work. Um when you have some slippage um and there’s some certainly some good things that are trending. The most important thing right now is uh you know we’re learning how to win games even if we don’t necessarily play well. I don’t think we played well uh the last two games. We didn’t really get to our identity uh enough. But you still figure out how to win the game and that becomes a talent uh of a team and eventually becomes a habit. Um but we would like to play better. We know we’re capable of that even as the competition has something to say about it. Uh just want to get more to our identity, you know, more consistently. It’s going to be like tomorrow to see Duncan on the other side. Yeah, it’ll be strange. you know, I I catch a lot of their games and I I watch their highlights a lot. You know, I I still root for Duncan. He’s one of the great success stories uh from our building. Um and I wrote him a note, you know, after u the deal. And I’ve told him this before, but I really do think his story is so inspirational that eventually it it could be a book, you know, or a movie. Um that just doesn’t happen where you come from. uh division three and then transfer um be a sixman uh and then you know to come into the NBA and uh get to a thousand threes as quickly as he did. Uh it’s and break our record for uh threes and then he’s going to continue uh to go. But um that’s just a credit to his his fortitude and and grit. just a an amazing superpower. Uh, you know, so I do root for him. Um, uh, but it looks strange him in that uniform, you know. It really does. Oh, so Cologne has played many different roles. Obviously rebounding more consistent, but off the bench, starting at times, scoring, not scoring. How how would you describe his approach in facing the under a game basis? he’s embracing uh you know the effort and energy that he needs to bring consistently whether he’s coming off uh the bench or whether he’s starting uh and then he’s getting better with the details of winning um I mean winning plays and um making your presence felt u having what he does impact the scoreboard uh and and that’s a credit to his approach every day um sometimes you can’t control those things as a player or whether you’re starting or coming off the bench, but he can control whether you’re getting better, um whether you’re um working at it every day, and he’s been stacking up good days. So, it is good to see uh some results. Um but even if you’re stacking up good days, that doesn’t guarantee that you’re going to get the results. Uh but you do that enough times over and over, uh that usually produces your your 5K, the second year. Yeah. How how great was it last year to see it all come together and then to be able to try to make it a year event that impacts the community? Yeah, I that’s something I’ve wanted to do for a while. Obviously, it’s something u dear to my heart and uh the children’s hospital there at Nicholas Hospital is an amazing place. That’s it’s where miracles uh can happen. The staff uh are incredible. um you know so I wanted to do something you know to be able to give back to them. 100% of the proceeds go to the hospital um and go to the kids um care uh and it’s a fun morning. Uh there was amazing energy u last year and there will be more runners this year. It’s it’s gotten uh out there more word of mouth. Um, so I think the turnout will be uh terrific and um I think everybody understands they’ll have a great time and and they’ll be for a really inspirational cause.

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Erik Spoelstra spoke to the media following Friday morning’s practice.

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