Phil Jackson Quotes
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Kareem met these guys at the door and he said, 'That effort wins on Wednesday (in Game 2).' He was very supportive. I think they heard that -- that if they give that kind of effort again, they can win.
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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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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 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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It was a disappointing loss tonight. We couldn't finish it to its completion.
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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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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 System basketball has been replaced by players who want to be the system.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 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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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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Make your work your play and your play your work.
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Some players, you say at the end of the game, maybe it'd be a higher percentage. But he hasn't shown he makes that shot at the end of the game.
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Some of our players didn't look ready to play.
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It's going to be a process with this team, ... So we're not going to see a finished product for a while.
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We couldn't do anything better that would make this franchise better.
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Love is the force that ignites the spirit and binds teams together.
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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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It's not going to be about Kobe getting 45 points a night. It's going to be about how are we going to use all the talents to do what we have to do to take a team apart.
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I think he must have some type of injury.
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The sign of a great player is how much he elevates his colleagues' performance.
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I thought we had a really good defensive first half. We found momentum at the beginning of the second quarter and established a lead.
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He's been under five systems in as many years, ... I expect it's going to take some time.
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We carried out our end of the bargain.
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When you have guys like Dixon and Blake basically have career nights, that really sets you on the edge as a team. We didn't come out with the intent to play defense tonight.
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We've made a lot of changes. Our roster is not set in stone. It's a very young team, our average age is 25. It's going to try the patience of its coach.