Phil Jackson Quotes
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Kobe fought his way through it tonight. It was one of those games where the numbers of shots he took was too high, but he thought he was going to get fouled and he took the shots because he felt the pressure on him.
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I still think we have a good chance, ... I still feel that we're the odds-on favorite to be the team of destiny.
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They almost made me get up and walk out of the building in the third quarter. I almost left them alone on a sinking ship. But they got it right in time and it took another 10 minutes but they finally got it right and got going. That's what a layoff will do sometimes.
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We found out that there is no substitute for human contact.
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I've been nudging him gently in the right direction, hopefully, and I think he's ready to turn the corner.
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There's still a fan core out there that's not going to let him off the hook. They're not going to give him the grace and the ability to get himself off the hook and into the fans' favor.
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I think he got drawn into the play and didn't make the right decision.
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I think people forgot that there are still ways you can get the ball inside rather than just standing there and throwing the ball in. You have to have a system that makes all things work.
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I think there's something about wanting to stand in the spotlight. I think the ball is a spotlight, for example, and I think they want to stand in that. I a lot of times see - LeBron is a guy that vacillates between wanting to do that and then wanting to get somebody else involved.
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Come back. Join us when you're ready and we're ready to go on with you -- or without you.
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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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I thought it was vindictive. I don't like to see it because he's one of the guys that we nurtured here. He was contributing to us a lot in the championship (run) two years ago.
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That is what happens when teams play with desperation and the other team comes out and doesn't play at the same level. We just got beat to the ball too many times and they were active and aggressive. They beat us with the nature of the play.
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We want him out there. We want their full team out there to play, so you earn what you win.
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I have to allow his judgment. He felt like he could do that at that time.
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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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Our game plan was to exploit the middle and do the things we wanted to, but he (Bryant) was still supposed to be a force over on that side of the offense. I just felt he never really got in rhythm until the end, and we said. Just go after it.
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I've seen some remarkable games, but never anything like that.
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Yes, victory is sweet, but it doesn't necessarily make life any easier the next season or even the next day.
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I felt they were self-directed out there. They knew what they wanted to run. They broke down the double-teams and I didn't have to burn timeouts to explain it to them. That was satisfying to me.
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Kobe had to take some heat for that, as if he was the one who manufactured that (O'Neal) trade. All those things were made to look like there was a scapegoat in this situation, and there wasn't.
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I played hockey in North Dakota growing up and watch a lot of that.
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I think that contributed to it somewhat. So we live with that decision.
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Winning is important to me, but what brings me real joy is the experience of being fully engaged in whatever I'm doing.