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“We should be shooting 3s whether we're 1-for-14 or 10-for-14.”
“There are so many pick and rolls in an NBA game. It's so hard to guard.”
“I think individually, Al Horford is very special, very unique. He's a guy that can kind of be the backbone of the defense.”
“Every team has to work through things.”
“The only social rule you recognized in high school was that Mormon girls don't date non-Mormons.”
“My father, he's meant so much to me. He's always on me to be thankful and humble to everyone who's helped me and helped the team be successful. There were many things that he said and preached throughout my life that are now part of my mindset. It's a big part of who I am.”
“Not winning and those types of things are difficult. There is no doubt. You can't say they are not.”
“I'm going to get better as a coach. Or at least I certainly hope to and plan to and need to work to, and have that as my mindset.”
“The best decisions are made when everyone is included, everyone is involved.”
“I think we've all seen it all throughout the league for lots of years: Keeping a good team together is really, really hard to do.”
“I literally remember going in my backyard and my dad teaching me Paul Westphal moves.”
“For coaches, we always look for those examples of guys who put in a lot of time and effort during the summer and really work and it carries over for them to take their game to the next level.”
“That's where your defense starts. If you are not good in transition, you probably aren't going to be good. Or you'll be taking it out of the net and playing a lot of offense.”
“Point guards love it when a guy can pick and pop and make a shot and make threes.”
“Pop is amazing about listening to everybody.”
“It is always the great challenge when you have a good team and you have good players and you find a way to keep those players with you, then how do you add around the edges?”
“There is great effort to balance the short term with the long term. How are we trying to achieve sustained success? That includes success now.”
“If you can help players become better and you can help them win, I've found that they'll always listen and they'll always follow.”
“Any player that values winning, success would be great in a system that emphasizes unselfishness and ball movement and player movement.”
“Any NBA coach, you just try to figure out what is best for your group.”