Phil Jackson Quotes
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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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He is coming up with some key plays for us. And at the offensive end, he is doing things that help him finish at the basket. When a player plays extended minutes, you fall into that rhythm. Kwame has set himself up to have this sort of success.
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We can't feel sorry for ourselves. That's the great thing about basketball, you have to go out there and play another game. We're just going to have to bounce back.
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I probably would have no capability of absorbing a 60-defeat season as a coach. It would be a foreign experience. My whole career, even as a player, has been on winning basketball clubs and it just seems to have been a part of the make-up of what’s been given me. That’s what I’ve been given and that’s what I’ve had to deal with. Some people can make fun of it or some people can have a good time with it, or some people can resent it. It’s just what it is.
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The strength of the team is each individual member. The strength of each member is the team.
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I didn't see him, but I heard the noise and wondered what was going on. It was great he came by.
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He reached behind to knock the ball loose, and (Palmer) made the call. This is the second game where we've had inconsequential plays land us on the free-throw line in the last seconds of the game.
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The two teams were both tired, but we were able to ride a little energy in the second half. We were able to build a lead that was tough to overcome.
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Obviously I think Chauncey Billups is really the guy that controls the throttle over there. He is an important part of their success.
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He said he wasn't ready to come out. But then he sat down for a while, came back, and made a shot like that. We wanted him to rest his legs. Your legs can suffer when you take as many shots as he does.
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Wisdom is always an overmatch for strength.
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He played with the energy and the enthusiasm and threw his body around out there, things that we want to see players do. That helped us. I thought he ran out of gas at one point in that fourth quarter. Otherwise, I probably would have had him stay on the floor.
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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.
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They're all big (games) for us. We have 10 home games, three road games and we feel like we have to win really a high majority of those games to finish where we have to finish if we want to go forward to gain momentum for the playoffs.
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He just has to finish, ... He's doing everything right but the final act and that's finding some strength and finishing and finding a good base and putting it through the hoop. I just told him, 'You're going to have to dunk the ball.'
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They really crowded Shaq well and did not give him a good look in the lane. He struggled to find a position in the lane all night.
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We obviously need his defense at some level. It's good to have him back in the offense, but we weren't smooth with him in there offensively, though.
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They could still be playing for all I know.
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I was very disappointed with the road trip. We had players injured and our team was not competing as hard as it could. The injuries hurt our team morale.
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I didn't get any satisfaction from their reasoning.
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It was like the third quarter would never end. I thought we would never get through it. Larry helped by getting off the court.
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We got in a situation where we were waiting for Kobe is hand to get hot. We started trying to force it in to him and that hurt us. Kobe had a hard time chasing Dixon around screens.
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I'm a sports-watcher. I played football and baseball, coached baseball. So I watch those things.
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In the second half we came out and played well offensively and defensively.