Phil Jackson Quotes
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I'm not trying to find answers anymore. I'm trying to live what I know.
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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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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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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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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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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 System basketball has been replaced by players who want to be the system.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 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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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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That bracket is probably the best bracket to advance.
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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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We found out that there is no substitute for human contact.
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I think he got drawn into the play and didn't make the right decision.
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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 a disappointing loss tonight. We couldn't finish it to its completion.
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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 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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There's never been anything like this in my tenure.
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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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You have to give that team some credit. Three-point shooting is not an easy task.
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You're only a success for the moment that you complete a successful act.
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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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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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He's had a great year this year. I wanted him to have an opportunity to be on the playoff roster and be successful.