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I've been nudging him gently in the right direction, hopefully, and I think he's ready to turn the corner.
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She comes to attack you every time you come through the door.
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I have to allow his judgment. He felt like he could do that at that time.
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We slept almost all the way through the third quarter. We're just not able to play a full game.
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It's not exactly the way you want to have a team win a game, but when you have to win a game, it's great to have that weapon to be able to do that.
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Most of it's about the quickness involved. Just the activity to the ball. Loose balls, tip-ins, all those little things make such a difference in a game. And that's a matter of seconds, and I think a lot of that is about energy.
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They know they can get scoring from three players every night, and sometimes all five can score. It's an all-inclusive thing.
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It was a big win for us. We caused a lot of turnovers and stepped up the tempo knowing they played last night.
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I wonder if they ever are. I thought they might let that go this year, but it didn't seem apparent at all. Right away, he got booed. He just may be one of those guys that has to carry that for a year or two until another group comes along that gives him a break.
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In the second half we came out and played well offensively and defensively.
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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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Houston had some injuries to veterans and we were able to overwhelm them in the second half.
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I didn't want to create an impediment in that situation. I wanted him to be productive. But it didn't seem to be working in that direction. I think more attention was better than less.
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My mother's families were Mennonites or Anabaptists that came to Minnesota from Russia. They were actually moving around Europe doing diking and lowland reclamation work, and they moved into Minnesota.
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It's 1-1. We haven't done anything yet. Now it's time to come home and see if we can't win on our court and get the actual lead in the series.
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I will say that I had a number of teams there with Chicago and the Lakers that had over 45 wins or close to that at the All-Star break and the last third of the season is much more difficult. It's really tough.
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Come back. Join us when you're ready and we're ready to go on with you -- or without you.
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When the game was in hand I tried to take him out. But my assistant Frank Hamblen said, 'I don't think you can do that. He's got 77 points'.
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They made that little run and the end, and we had to make some big plays. The biggest plays were defensive -- although Kwame got an offensive rebound that really changed the complexion of the game and forced them to foul.
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We're not looking for Kobe to score 50 or 30 or 80. We're just looking for it to fit together. We want players to blend their talents together.
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Von has a lot of game. He is an aggressive player, but sometimes it is good to have a wild horse out there who can push guys and challenge people.
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Leadership is not about forcing your will on others. It's about mastering the art of letting go.
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I don't mean to say that as a snide remark toward a certain population in our society, ... But they have a limitation of their attention span, a lot of it probably due to too much rap music going in their ears and coming out their being. So they need to get a focal point that lasts longer than a TV commercial or one short 15-second span.
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I'll just say that hopefully they've drained the mud out of the building, and the termites aren't going to eat the buildings away in between the time we get down there. They made a good judgment probably to get this back in, and that's the important thing about it.
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