Phil Jackson Quotes
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Coaching is salesmanship. Coaching is winning players over and convincing them they have to play together. It takes a team conviction to play together to make things work.
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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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Tracy looks like he's injured to me. He just didn't seem to play with as much vigor.
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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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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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There's one thing that we've had success doing, and that's keeping (the Suns) out of their running game, their full-out, 60 mph running game that is difficult for us to keep up, difficult for the whole league to keep up with.
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We need to try to regain some home-court advantage.
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He stayed very well inside of what we're trying to do.
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It takes a number of critical factors to win an NBA championship, including the right mix of talent, creativity, intelligence, toughness, and of course, luck. But if a team doesn’t have the most essential ingredient - love - none of those other factors matter.
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We stumbled and fumbled around out there for three quarters.
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In the second half we came out and played well offensively and defensively.
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He played a great game, and they gave him 'Kobe (stinks)' or something at the end. I thought that was really poor sportsmanship, especially for a game as competitive and exciting as that game was, down to the last minute to be decided. I'm sure his demeanor and his poise and his character on the floor are saying lots.
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We're not even going to discuss it. It's a basketball team and we've got to focus on what we need to do.
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Kobe played a game in which he really controlled the offense from his position. He really doesn't play guard very often. We had people open because he got double-teamed. In the first half, Cook hit his shots.
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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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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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My philosophy is that you don'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 can not teach competitiveness.
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We were relying on Kobe and Kobe couldn't shoot the ball because of a hand injury. He was just reluctant to shoot.
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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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There'll be another resurgence where we get back and play ball well.
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It was a poorly refereed game. I know there's a lot of pressure on the refs when they come here because Mark (Cuban) has them review the tapes and send them into the league.
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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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I'm going to address the team and try to set down some parameters as to how we're going to deal with it, ... This is something now that we seriously have to take as another type of an issue, where there's a certain sense of where our privacy lies and where the boundaries lie, that we're going to have to address and we're going to have to be serious about it.
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Your problems never cease. They just change.