Phil Jackson Quotes
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That was something to behold. It was another level. I've seen some remarkable games, but I've never seen one like that before.
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Teams have streaks, they get on a run, and this is fortunate for us because this team had been dying to do something like this for a couple years now.
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You get in that pressure situation where you feel like you have to win at home.
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We're not even going to discuss it. It's a basketball team and we've got to focus on what we need to do.
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We've got a week that's real busy ahead of us. We've got to stay the course, and that's important for us right now.
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I've seen some remarkable games, but never anything like that.
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He stayed very well inside of what we're trying to do.
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I don't feel like we missed an opportunity. We'll have better opportunities as we go along. We're figuring out how to play against them.
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Obviously when the threes aren't going it's time to stop shooting them. We kept going to it and got desperate at the end trying to hit home runs. We can't do that.
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I think he has a level of confidence that gives him the understanding of what he can and can't do in this game. I think he's playing within the groundwork of what he's capable of doing, which is really important.
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The more you draw attention to it, the worse it becomes. So it's better just to show up and swallow your pride.
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The league is known for its vindictiveness. But we didn't anticipate a suspension.
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He was unusual in the fact that he was also an excellent (math) teacher. In those days, most coaches taught P.E.
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It seemed like I was going to keep stopping the game until we got it right. It was slipping away from us.
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Obviously the game was determined by Howard leaving so early. That took a lot of energy away from them and we played well as a group.
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You can't force your will on people. If you want them to act differently, you need to inspire them to change themselves.
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I thought we played in spurts tonight. We came out with a little more energy in the third quarter, compared to our last two games, which helped a lot.
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Our particular team right now is not a team that does well resting on any kind of sense of accomplishment. We still have to drive ourselves and drive the team forward.
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Very much so. Things have gone well. We're going to have a relationship. We'll get done what we need this year. He's been real dedicated this summer. He'll be a captain, I don't know who will be a co-captain with him.
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I think that contributed to it somewhat. So we live with that decision.
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I think that it can provide a space away from the other things that I'm sure have encroached upon his life and really give him a chance to do what he does best, ... His genius is basketball, and to do that he's got to play it at the highest level.
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This trip, you've got to do a lot of PR work for the league, pump up that Miami game on Christmas Day because they're asking you to do this all the time. And don't forget, Orlando is just as important in the win-loss column.
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He'll be playing out on the perimeter a lot, ... How much, I don't know. He might start there the first and third quarters and play a power position in the second and fourth quarters.
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He had a so-so game. He played adequately.... Everybody's a work in progress right now.