Phil Jackson Quotes
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Before a vision (dream) can become a reality, it must be owned by every member of the group.
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When Stephen got hurt...it was either a motivating force for the Pacers to get their run, but at the same time he was turning the ball over a lot, so he may have been an asset by default.
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The ideal way to win a championship is step by step.
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For Kobe, it's about on the court, ... It's about re-establishing his dominance of the game.
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They had a game plan against Kobe that was effective, getting the ball out of his hands.
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We came here with a plan: We're not going to let this game get by us.
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My philosophy is that you can't motivate players with speeches, you have motivated players that you draft. That's where they come in and those are the guys that are competitive. You cannot teach competitiveness.
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I was disappointed with our fourth-quarter beginning. We put ourselves in good position, then didn't score for three minutes. We gave it away.
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That's what happens when a team plays with some desperation.
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You go in the weight room and you lift weights and you do all these things to strengthen your body. This is strengthening your mind. When you can stay focused and you can use that focus to always come back with your breath to center yourself, so that you're kind of floating in the moment, in the spirit.
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That's a higher pace, higher fatigue rate, particularly when you play against this team. So it's important for us to understand how to do that.
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We had a blowout on our hands in the third quarter and we never recovered from that.
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When it doesn't produce wins, that's the fine line. And then players . . . also have to feel like they're a part of it. If they are, then they play at a better level.
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I hope so. We've got a measure in front of us that we have to step up to and try to regain some kind of composure and some kind of home-court advantage.
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Everybody has an opportunity to play a role, a playmaking role, so it makes it harder to coach. It takes a little more time.
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Teams that have lost a lot of games are dangerous teams and we knew that coming in. We just have no excuses. They outplayed us tonight.
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I am pleased with Kobe and how he controlled the offense. We had people open because they were doubling him and that got some people open and we found them.
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There's going to be games like that, games that are going to be up there (offensively), especially with the accuracy on three-pointers that they did tonight.
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It was quite an exhibition for three quarters Kobe put on. I've seen a few 60-point ballgames in my time, but none of them had been done by the third quarter.
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We figured no one would break it for another 30 years, just like it took for the Lakers' record to be broken. So, it is surprising Detroit is pushing for it.
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It was a good practice session, but then we started tailing-off, just as most players do during exhibition games and we started shooting more instead of executing.
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We were unhappy with the first 18 minutes of the game, and we weren't reacting defensively the way we like to see them react. In the second half, we stepped it up defensively and were able to get out and run.
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Yao was great (Sunday). He was posting up and hitting those shots. He's in great shape now, probably the best shape I've seen him in since he's been playing in the NBA.
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It was a real disappointing defensive effort by our team. So we talked a lot about that.