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"If you're a basketball player, you've got to shoot."
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"I just want to try to ignore the scrutiny and all the distractions and just play hard basketball and let the best come... Improving game by game and trying to improve my game is what I want to do."
"Basketball is a team game. But that doesn't mean all five players should have the same amount of shots."
"Yeah, I like cars and basketball. But you know what I like more? Bananas."
"The only reason I went to college was to play basketball. I injured my knee and couldn't play."
"Basketball was not my main sport in grade school, or even the first year of high school."
"Basketball is in my blood. It is my obligation to try."
"That's what I do now: I lead and I teach. If we win basketball games from doing that, then that's great, but I lead and teach. Those are the two things I concentrate on."
"You need a teaching coach who understands the game of basketball, not just some guy coming on the court talking about Xs and Os."
"I played varsity on all of them for four years. I'm 5'9 and that's not that tall for a center so I was a forward. I loved playing volleyball and basketball and track I was good at, but it stressed me out."
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"You need a teaching coach who understands the game of basketball, not just some guy coming on the court talking about Xs and Os."
"When you go into a game on offense, you make a couple moves and see what the defender is going to do. Then you pretty much can figure out what he is going to do against you - whether he carries his hands low or high, whether he is bumping or pushing, those type of things."
"It's like all guys want to do is make a dunk, grab their shirt and yell out and scream - they could be down 30 points but that's what they do. Okay, so you made a dunk. Get back down the floor on defense!"
"I don't blame David Stern because a player gets on the court and he doesn't put out competitively. No one can make you play if you don't want to play."
"The thing about it is almost everyone could pass that way, but we were kept from doing it by our coaches."
"I think that basketball players should get the job done no matter how it looks on the screen."
"I'd like to think that the nature of the two teams - Boston being a championship team over the years and the Lakers, same thing - was a lot bigger than Larry Bird or Magic Johnson."
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