Phil Jackson Quotes
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We slept almost all the way through the third quarter. We're just not able to play a full game.
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I have my hopes as to how we can grow as a basketball club.
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I know these teams have to have an answer, and it's time for the draft to commence and things to happen. I'll be off the queue here in another day or two.
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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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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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It's just a personal challenge for him to attack the whole team.
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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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I won't coach this team next year if he is still here. He won't listen to anyone. I've had it with this kid.
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I was surprised. I can hear the cheers too, but there were some boos. I think it was kind of retribution for what happened in Miami over Christmas. I think the Miami fans were so vocal over Kobe.
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It was designed for him (Bryant) to catch the ball and find what he could find available. I have to give him credit that he can shoot that shot. I have to allow his judgment to be so he felt like he could do that at the time. I wanted him to penetrate.
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When you get off to a lead like that they usually catch up. Today we kept them at bay. It's good to be back in the playoffs.
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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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Poor decisions and free throw shooting haunted us. I was disappointed in our ball control.
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That's a great job for (Larry), ... (There's) a lot of money there. It's home.
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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 have to allow his judgment. He felt like he could do that at that time.
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There's plenty of time to look at this for a while until either he shows improvement or else we go back to more of a basic offensive standard ... and take that guard responsibility away. Move him into a forward place where he can make plays and he can still be a participant in the offense.
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I'm going to address the team and try to set down some parameters as to how we're going to deal with it, ... This is something now that we seriously have to take as another type of an issue, where there's a certain sense of where our privacy lies and where the boundaries lie, that we're going to have to address and we're going to have to be serious about it.
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I think he got drawn into the play and didn't make the right decision.
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That's basically a lot of the belief I have. Establishing dominance and taking responsibility for it.
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We found out that there is no substitute for human contact.
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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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I think we are playing relatively good basketball. Tonight we were quick to the ball and did a good job on defense.
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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.