Phil Jackson Quotes
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It was a disappointing loss tonight. We couldn't finish it to its completion.
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We couldn't do anything better that would make this franchise better.
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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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I think he must have some type of injury.
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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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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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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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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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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 feel very comfortable saying I more than likely will not come back and coach, ... The health issue is very important.
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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 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'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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Make your work your play and your play your work.
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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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We carried out our end of the bargain.
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The sign of a great player is how much he elevates his colleagues' performance.
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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.
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Some of our players didn't look ready to play.
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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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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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It's nice to be back in this gray, dingy hallway.
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Basketball is a great mystery. You can do everything right. You can have the perfect mix of talent and the best system of offense in the game. You can devise a foolproof defensive strategy and prepare your players for every possible eventuality. But if the players don’t have a sense of oneness as a group, your efforts won’t pay off. And the bond that unites a team can be so fragile, so elusive.
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I'm sure he's going to juice up, as far as playing against Kobe.