Phil Jackson Quotes
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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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Basketball, unlike football with its prescribed routes, is an improvisational game, similar to jazz. If someone drops a note, someone else must step into the vacuum and drive the beat that sustains the 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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A coach's main job is to reawaken a spirit in which the players can blend together effortlessly.
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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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That's a great job for (Larry), ... (There's) a lot of money there. It's home.
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Poor decisions and free throw shooting haunted us. I was disappointed in our ball control.
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I'm sure he's going to juice up, as far as playing against Kobe.
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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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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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Kobe played a game in which he really controlled the offense from his position. He really doesn't play guard very often. We had people open because he got double-teamed. In the first half, Cook hit his shots.
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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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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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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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An acrobatic dunk will make it onto Sports Center. A simple, unspectacular bounce pass in the rhythm of the offense will not. System basketball has been replaced by players who want to be the system.
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I feel like we will have better opportunities as we go along.
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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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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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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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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.
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Love is the force that ignites the spirit and binds teams together.