Billy Donovan

“If you want to be very, very good and continue to get better, there is no shortcut to that.”

“I do feel like Oklahoma City was incredibly open and honest with me.”

“I've always believed in running an offensive system where you can look at each guys strengths and talents and abilities and try to put something in place where you can take advantage of those strengths.”

“Lonzo to me is as good as an advanced passer as there is. In order to play to his strengths, we've got to get out to enable him to get his passing into the game.”

“You just want to make sure your formula analytically going against teams that are maybe high volume three-point shooting teams is not putting yourself at a deficit.”

“I tell young players that come to the NBA time, especially rookies: 'Look at your position and study every guy that you could potentially guard.' Because they're going to be on defense a lot more often than they're going to shoot the basketball.”

“The history, the organization, what the Bulls have meant to the game of basketball and basketball worldwide, I mean, it's an iconic franchise.”

“I really didn't know after leaving Oklahoma City what the future would hold.”

“The NBA game is a different game, and that's one of the things that intrigued me is it's learning and growing in a different way, in a different area and a different game.”

“Too often we all got caught up in who is going to go pro on a certain team.”

“I recruited Wendell Carter a little bit out of high school, so I am familiar with him when he was younger. He's a very, very high character, talented big man.”

“I had to earn respect.”

“I think the one thing you want to be able to do is really be able to adjust to certain situations.”

“Coaching Russell Westbrook, it was really interesting, he was just an incredible player at getting to the basket.”

“I do believe the more and more involved I get the one thing that resonates is that culture wins. That's not to say that one culture is right and one culture is wrong, but I think that's what wins.”

“What drove me nuts was the cold-calling.”

“I've always spent time talking to a lot of NBA coaches, and I've always said this: There's certain things that work in the NBA that don't work in college. And there's certain things in college that don't work in the NBA.”