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“If you're conscientious of where your team is, and the opportunities and what's available to them, I think you'd be naive - I don't think anyone would believe you - if you said that you weren't aware of it.”
“You have to stay disciplined from the start of the game to the end of the game, from the start of the possession to the end of the possession.”
“I think we usually err on the side of giving players a lot of confidence and freedom within the motion to make plays and make reads and make decisions.”
“Sometimes coaching is being hard on them, but there's a balance. I'm fine with the word nurturing. It's teaching in a positive way. You have to find what works for each group.”
“The really great players, I think embrace playing unselfishly and embrace playing in a system that ultimately kind of lifts up their teammates or their role players and guys who are around them.”
“There's an attention to detail that you learn in the video room that, I don't want to say you can't get anywhere else, but it's a huge part of their foundation.”
“Those teams that really trust each other, really communicate with each other, really hold each other accountable and do it in a good way, in a respectful way, and just genuinely enjoy and like each other, I think that can be something that helps you separate when talent is equal.”
“Things happen. Things change. It's part of life.”
“It's not easy to go out and win and compete and play against the best teams, the best players in the league, and we take that very seriously.”
“It's just hard in our league to see somebody who has had that much sucess, that's done that well, that's that well-respected, not just among coaches but the whole basketball world has great respect for David Blatt. That's hard anytime you see a coach go when they make a change.”
“The thing Pop did for me and did for a lot of coaches is - he let me coach. It seems really simple, and that's the beauty of being with Pop and being around Pop.”
“A lot of times continuity is your best hope for taking that next step. Can you have a balance of continuity and some additions and bolster it and walk that fine line of adding and embracing continuity?”
“I love what my dad taught me and modeled for me - not just with coaching but as a husband, as a father, as a teacher, as someone in our community that cared and worked to make things better. I watched my dad and learned a lot about a lot of things, not just basketball.”
“As a coach, I've got to get better. I've got to improve.”
“The way things were done in San Antonio gave me a great 19-year look into how you can have sustained success.”
“You have to have guys that will compete every night, every possession.”
“Playing unselfish basketball is a core component of our basketball culture and high assist totals are a great indicator that we are playing the right way.”
“I would love to be the best defensive team in the league.”
“I'm passionate about coaching.”
“Guarding and defending is not easy.”