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"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."
"And it blew my mind when I started to get wind of the fact that they actually liked me being around. That was humbling, because Kentucky basketball is a big deal, and I am not the biggest fan - I am just the most notorious one."
"It just wasn't right the way they were behind by 25 points and then they're told to hold the ball."
"The only reason I went to college was to play basketball. I injured my knee and couldn't play."
"Someday I might have to put down a basketball and have a regular 9-to-5 like everybody else."
"I'm pretty athletic and I play basketball a lot."
"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."
"You don't play against opponents, you play against the game of basketball."
"Handball, swimming, running, jumping, basketball, and boxing were as much a part of me as breathing."
"If you're playing basketball with someone who's better than you, you have to get better or else it's no fun."
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"They should have a rule: in order to be a sportswriter, you have to have played that sport, at some level; high school, college, junior college, somewhere. Or, you should have had to have been around the game for a long time."
"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."
"You see what happens in college and high school games today - a three-point shot or a dunk. I think that's the reason that you see a lot of that in the pros today."
"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!"
"Some players are more physical than others, some play with more finesse. Some are just really great all-around players. So you have to change your game."
"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."
"This is where young players today want to land. They want to be NBA players because of the money."
"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."
"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."
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