Phil Jackson Quotes
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He's had to make some adjustments. I really feel like the adjustments have been made.
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I think it's a matter of trust, a matter of rebuilding the trust that we had, ... And yes, I have talked to Kobe; he actually called me this morning to congratulate me on the job. And I felt confident that he's confident that we can go forward.
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If you have a clear mind . . . you won't have to search for direction. Direction will come to you.
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We got them mired into our style of play. They were playing at a level above us and we got them to come down to our level. ... We just couldn't seem to finish it.
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I've seen some remarkable games but I've never seen anything like that before. It's just a personal challenge for him to attack the whole team. It was not exactly the way you want to win a game, but when you have to win a game, it's great to have that weapon to be able to do it. We rode the hot the hand.
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Red and I, I think, have a mutual admiration. That's all I can say.
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When you start out a ball game and the first thing they do is call an offensive foul on him for a nonexistent foul, you know the kid doesn't have a chance out there playing. The referees just give him nothing. It's embarrassing.
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I'm not trying to find answers anymore. I'm trying to live what I know.
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There's a lot of chatter in basketball and, rightfully, you want players to be talking to each other... But sometimes in practice, it gets too verbose... so I tried to take things out of the ordinary and make them special so they'd understand the difference.
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We couldn't overcome a tough shooting game for Kobe. They threw an extra man at him, and we didn't make good adjustments. Offensively, I don't think we grasped the concepts of what we are trying to do here.
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Kobe is going to have a lot of detractors. Unfortunately, we are not 10 games over .500. We are going to be in the playoffs, that says something about his performance.
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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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I feel like we will have better opportunities as we go along.
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You have to give that team some credit. Three-point shooting is not an easy task.
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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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I think the most important thing about coaching is that you have to have a sense of confidence about what you're doing. You have to be a salesman, and you have to get your players, particularly your leaders, to believe in what you're trying to accomplish on the basketball floor.
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And then mentally, do I have the patience to see that through?
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Some of our players didn't look ready to play.
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That bracket is probably the best bracket to advance.
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Right now, we need to focus on who we are as a basketball club. I don't live with expectations, so there's nothing there I can say I expected. We're just out here kind of treading water as a basketball team right now. We're neither hot nor cold, neither fish nor fowl.
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You have to be able to psychologically help your players, support-wise, be in touch with them, so I think managing people is very important.
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I think our defense was confused at times. There were some defensive lapses, and they have an experienced team, which took advantage of some of our young kids.
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There's never been anything like this in my tenure.
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And yet as a coach, I know that being fixated on winning (or more likely, not losing) is counterproductive, especially when it causes you to lose control of your emotions. What’s more, obsessing about winning is a loser’s game: The most we can hope for is to create the best possible conditions for success, then let go of the outcome. The ride is a lot more fun that way.