Phil Jackson Quotes
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That's not what basketball is about. Basketball is about playing as a team and finding a functioning level.
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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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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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This is something I never thought could possibly happen, ... It's a pleasure to come back.
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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.
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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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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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We want him out there. We want their full team out there to play, so you earn what you win.
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It's just a personal challenge for him to attack the whole team.
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We're a ways away from being that next level of NBA team.
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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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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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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 think that contributed to it somewhat. So we live with that decision.
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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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I think he got drawn into the play and didn't make the right decision.
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Ludicrous is probably the best word I could think of.
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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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I've seen some remarkable games, but never anything like that.
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We found out that there is no substitute for human contact.
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I've seen quite a few guys do that in his situation, focused. He wanted to stay in, in the second quarter. He asked to stay in so he could get loose, get a second wind.
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I played hockey in North Dakota growing up and watch a lot of that.
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Not only is there more to life than basketball, there's a lot more to basketball than basketball.
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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.