Players and coaches alike, you sign up for 82 games. You get paid for 82.
The best player's responsibility is to unite and inspire your teammates to play up to their full maximum ability, and that never occurs if you try to separate yourself as part of the problem.
While a guy may not be totally happy, he can be effective and do well for the team.
The triangle itself is just an offense based on freedom of the ball to go to different places, everybody feeling involved. It's a good thing.
I have known Marbury since he was in seventh grade, and I have always felt he is a hell of an NBA player.
Providence had a graduate assistant job opening. They asked me if I wanted to apply, and I applied. That break right there put me in position to learn from great coaches. It really jump-started every other good break I ever had in coaching.
I grew up dreaming about being an Olympic basketball player: Doug Collins getting smashed into the stanchion, making two free throws. Phil Ford and Mike O'Koren in 1976.
I love listening to Coach Belichick's press conferences: even though they may not be what the media wants, they're great coaching, teaching tools.
I miss coaching - certain elements of coaching.
I've had two owners - Jim Dolan and Les Alexander in Houston. Both were terrific. They wanted to win badly and gave you the resources to win.
The public Yao was the private Yao: To his core, there was an unmistakable peace to him.
As great of a player as Yao was, he was kind and patient with everybody. He wasn't trying to feed an image or cultivate a brand or manipulate a public persona.
There is a goodness about Yao that is unique, that never left him through all the pain and injuries and disappointments that accompanied his unprecedented accomplishments and successes.
Among the hardest-working players I've ever been associated, Yao stands at the very top of the list. Beyond that, though, here's what truly separated him from everyone else: His ability to enjoy other people's successes.
I love Joe Ingles. I think Joe Ingles is a tremendous glue player, terrific shooter, passer, defender.
Life sort of works out the way it works out.
In one era, it's hard enough to compare people. But comparing people of different eras... that's next to impossible.
All the fascination with numbers conspires to make you forget the beauty of the game sometimes.
The beauty of growing up in a coaching family, particularly one that isn't at the very highest level, is that you get to be in the gym - that's where you grow up.
I don't know about any others, but coaching basketball is the only thing I can do.
