Phil Jackson Quotes
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He plays beyond pain a lot of times. He'll be fresh-legged.
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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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This goes along with who we are as a society. Somebody does something exceptional, people are looking for ways to denigrate them.
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He's still not 100 percent. He will be established in this organization as a prominent player. I'm going to ask him to step into that level as a responsible player on the floor.
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This is a team we told our guys not to foul, and we end up sending them to the line 35 times. That was one of the things we didn't expect.
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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 was surprised. I can hear the cheers too, but there were some boos. I think it was kind of retribution for what happened in Miami over Christmas. I think the Miami fans were so vocal over Kobe.
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I don't believe in curfews, because you can't treat men like they were boys without forfeiting a certain level of trust.
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We stumbled and fumbled around out there for three quarters.
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Your problems never cease. They just change.
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Milwaukee came back in the second quarter and made a game of it.
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No. He's not. He doesn't have the base.
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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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We've had a couple momentum shifts throughout the course of the year, and this is what we've been talking about as a group - we want to build the momentum, because now is the time to do it. We've shown signs of this - the Houston game at the end of the road trip.
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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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That was all well and fine, but there was still some unfinished business, I felt, with the Lakers.
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It's a confidence builder for this team. It shows we can overcome odds.
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We're not amazed, to say the least. We are enthralled by it, and it's a beautiful thing to see, but it's something that we've grown accustomed to over the years.
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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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I think all our players were encouraged by the effort, and thought we had the right idea. Our execution came up a little bit short.
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I felt they were self-directed out there. They knew what they wanted to run. They broke down the double-teams and I didn't have to burn timeouts to explain it to them. That was satisfying to me.
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If we can accept whatever hand we've been dealt - no matter how unwelcome - the way to proceed eventually becomes clear.
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I think the most rewarding part of the job, and I think most coaches would say it, is practice. If you have it, a very good practice in which you have 12 guys participate, and they can really get something out of it, lose themselves in practice.
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Kobe is missing out by not finding a way to become part of a system that involves giving to something larger than himself.