I enjoy watching Gregg Popovich-coached teams.
If your best offensive players go down, all you can do is hang on.
You can't hold up in a FIBA game if you don't have great competitive spirit.
If you coach, and coach every day, you should be getting better if you're self-evaluating and you've got people around you telling you the truth.
There are certain aspects that I miss of coaching. But you can't just pick out the good parts. You've got to be all-in and understand there's some negatives, too.
It's hard enough to coach in this league when you're doing what you believe in. But when you have to try to coach something you may not be sold on, it becomes even more of a challenge. It's really hard.
To me, it doesn't matter who's out there: NBA basketball is great - if teams are putting out their best players and they're competing to win.
You have to be careful as a news organization that you don't fall into voluntary censorship, that you worry about offending your 'league partner.' I never worried about that. I worry about fans listening.
Everyone's system in the NBA makes sense. It all comes down to the quality of player and the quality of execution.
D'Antoni can be successful playing slow or fast because he is a bright guy who has very creative ideas.
When I'd watch myself coaching, I'd say, 'Man, I look bad,' but I never felt I didn't have a sense of humor with the team. Maybe I was too over-the-top serious.
Kobe Bryant is a terrific offensive rebounder.
At first, you can play into the naivete that people think you have because you don't dress well. They almost give you the benefit of the doubt. But when success comes, that's no longer a good angle, so now you're 'a political animal.'
I want to control everything that goes into winning or losing.
Losing has an unbelievably negative impact on me.
I read somewhere that failure is an event, not a person, but I never feel that way. It's who I am.
Most elite big men are high maintenance.
There's always been conflict, inherent conflict between players and coaches.
I always said 'strength in stars.'
Chicken parm is hard to beat.
