top of page
.png){kind=small}
More
"When you play against different people from all walks of life you can't do the same thing against every player defensively or offensively. You have to change up the way you go at a player."
Change
"The Olympics were great, because you had to make the team, and then go to the games. Now, I don't know, these guys today don't want to do anything like that."
Sports
"I think that basketball players should get the job done no matter how it looks on the screen."
Basketball
"It's a sad commentary when I have to say that sometimes in our country we are real sensitive to race."
Nation
"This is where young players today want to land. They want to be NBA players because of the money."
Money
"I was taught to play that way when I was in high school and even before I got to high school."
Sports
"You need a teaching coach who understands the game of basketball, not just some guy coming on the court talking about Xs and Os."
Basketball
"You don't cut anywhere, don't pick down anywhere, don't double screen, no weak side picking. All these things that should happen in a game of basketball don't happen anymore."
Basketball
"But I think the image that's thrown out on television is a bad image. Because you see players who want to imitate hip-hop stars. And the NBA is taking advantage of the situation."
Stars
"You look at today, it's a different situation. You have a game that has been transformed into a game where almost every shot is either an outside shot - a three-point shot - or a dunk."
Sports
More
"Very good coaches for ski jumpers stand at the top of the slope and watch the jumpers prepare, rather than standing at the bottom and watching them land."
Author Name
Personal Development
"Snoop Dog is the Phil Jackson of youth football coaches. He ain't going to accept nothing but a winner."
Author Name
Personal Development
"Working on the accent helped, enormously. I will tell you that when I brought Michael a correct "British" accent, one that my dialect coach was happy with, he hated it."
Author Name
Personal Development
"You are only as good as the coach thinks you are."
Author Name
Personal Development
"Coaches aren't concentrating enough of the technical part of this game and that could lead to injuries."
Author Name
Personal Development
"A lifetime contract for a coach means if you're ahead in the third quarter and moving the ball, they can't fire you."
Author Name
Personal Development
"Coaching in the NBA is not easy. It's like a nervous breakdown with a paycheck."
Author Name
Personal Development
"There's nothing like playing. You can coach and you can be around the game, but there is nothing like playing. It's just so much fun."
Author Name
Personal Development
"When you coach as long as I did, you can't help but miss those Saturdays - dealing with the players, the game preparation, the challenges, the excitement."
Author Name
Personal Development
"The coach's job is to get the best players and get them to play together."
Author Name
Personal Development
bottom of page