Phil Jackson Quotes
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Kind of a blowout in that third quarter when they got a run on us, and we never recovered from that.
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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.
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It was awful. He gave us a terrible game. He just didn't give us any productive minutes at all.
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I think he gave the ball up in various points of the year, and I think there's been a fine balance between guys stepping up and making shots and Kobe trusting his teammates. It hasn't got to the point where it's not happening, where I'm disappointed, but there's opportunities that still could be there that have to be exploited even more and we have to recognize that as a team.
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I felt like they were frustrated and they have a reason to be frustrated. Things didn't happen for them and it's a frustrating thing for these young kids.
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I'm not trying to find answers anymore. I'm trying to live what I know.
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That bracket is probably the best bracket to advance.
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Poor decisions and free throw shooting haunted us. I was disappointed in our ball control.
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You're only a success for the moment that you complete a successful act.
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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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Well, this is something I never thought could possibly happen, to be standing back again, less than one year after having been part of the dissolution of this organization and the changing of the guard, so to speak, and feeling so comfortable stepping back into this position.
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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'm sure he's going to juice up, as far as playing against Kobe.
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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 just think he's a very determined player and dedicated to what he's doing. He's doing a lot of letting things develop on their own.
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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 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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I feel like we will have better opportunities as we go along.
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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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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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As much as we pump iron and we run to build our strength up, we need to build our mental strength up... so we can focus... so we can be in concert with one another.
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There's never been anything like this in my tenure.
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You have to give that team some credit. Three-point shooting is not an easy task.
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I've talked to other players that were there, but that was played in like complete silence. I guess there was a radio announcer there, but there was nothing else that you could even document it. People don't even know if they had a backboard or nets.