A biography for Mike Budenholzerhasn’t been written yet.
“I always say you learn so much from the players.”
“On a lot of teams that bottom guy, that weakside defender, is critical if something happens and you're broken down off the dribble or you're beat. That person has got to be there.”
“Being the youngest, my siblings took great care of me and pushed me in all the right directions.”
“Respect for your teammates is important to us.”
“The dream or the goal was to play in college. That was exclusively my focus.”
“When you watch great teams around the league, whenever they lose, you don't want to be the team that comes and plays them next.”
“One of the great things about working for Pop, not just me but everybody, is he wants you to give your opinions. He almost wants you to disagree with him. It's part of the whole process.”
“If you are just focused on the end result, you are probably going to have a frustrating year. But if you embrace on what you go through every day and how you work every day, there's a lot that can be taken from that.”
“I can tell you, those video guys are truly trained to see the spacing, the timing, how offenses progress, what are teams doing defensively.”
“Organizations go through change.”
“As the coach, you love having that great year and then you're just like, 'Oh man, are we going to be able to keep the group together?'”
“There's no doubt that having some guys on the bench that have been through things, and that are older and experienced, understand not just the highs but the lows of losing a game. Winning and keeping a steadiness throughout a game, their voice in timeouts, it's really valuable.”
“The great Chicago teams when Tex Winter and Phil Jackson were there - the triangle was just amazing. I know Michael Jordan was great, but everybody touched the ball, everybody cut, everybody moved. It was just so hard to guard.”
“As a head coach you have to think about the entire group with every decision you make. Up and down the line, front and back, it has to be about the entire group and the bigger picture.”
“There's no doubt Giannis, he just wants to work and work and work.”
“It always starts with having great competitors on your team, in your front office, on your coaching staff.”
“At the end of the day, winning is always rewarded.”
“Giannis is such a great player.”
“I would have never ever dreamed of my career playing out the way it did.”
“I would say we took a lot of pride in our player development program in Atlanta.”