Phil Jackson Quotes
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He's at the end of the bench. Right now, we have to win games. That's our No. 1 priority.
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He's had to make some adjustments. I really feel like the adjustments have been made.
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The best part of basketball, for those people on the inside, is the bus going to the airport after you've won a game on an opponent's floor. It's been a very tough battle. And preferably, in the playoffs. And that feeling that you have, together as a group, having gone to an opponent's floor and won a very good victory, is as about as high as you can get.
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I have my hopes as to how we can grow as a basketball club.
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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 feel very comfortable saying I more than likely will not come back and coach, ... The health issue is very important.
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A coach's main job is to reawaken a spirit in which the players can blend together effortlessly.
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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 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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I told the guys that the team is going to double- and triple-team Kobe at the end. So he's not going to get the ball. Somebody else is going to have to step and make shots.
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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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I was quite surprised. As far as things happening locally, it's probably the best thing that's ever happened to me.
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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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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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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 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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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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It's time to penetrate and find somebody else if that's not the shot you're making or you're comfortable with. You have to know 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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It's just about momentum. About picking up momentum. Usually there's one or two keys that go in a series and then it changes or flip-flops.
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They have that inner knowledge that (makes them) capable of going in, being tired and making the game come to them, how they want to play the game.
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Poor decisions and free throw shooting haunted us. I was disappointed in our ball control.
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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 not trying to find answers anymore. I'm trying to live what I know.