I first came to the Garden when I was a sophomore in college. The old, old Garden.
You don't play extra guys just to play them. You play 'em because they can help you in some way.
All the way through my high school and college there was never a doubt in anybody's mind the ACC was the best conference.
The facts are, when we played here, we were treated better in Greensboro than any other tournament venue.
You've got to understand, every kid in college basketball, if you ask them where they want to play a game, in the NBA or college, they will tell you Madison Square Garden, a huge percentage.
It's one thing to play through injuries, quite another to play well through injuries.
Unfortunately, in our business, it's all about the tournament when you're a good team.
If I could hire a coach in this country and I could get Tony Bennett, there would be nobody in second place. Nobody.
I loved Jud Heathcote.
I've seen countless situations where I've been around him where he always does the right thing, 100 percent of the time. Tom Izzo would never do the wrong thing. And anybody that thinks other than that, they don't know Tom Izzo. I know him.
It's a myth that I run things at Syracuse University.
I love Charles Barkley, he's a good friend of mine and he's a funny guy. He knows nothing about college basketball. Less than nothing.
I've always felt in life, you get a lot of things you have to overcome.
The thing is 3,900 out of 4,000 college basketball players are very happy to have a scholarship. They're happy. They've got a $70,000 scholarship and they've got money in their pocket. It's the other hundred guys and they're all going to make money playing basketball and the top guys are going to make a lot of money.
The NBA is going to do what they want to do. They're going to do what's best for them; not what's best for us.
You have to show high school players that fans care about your program, that they're gonna be at the games. I think that's a huge key to success in college basketball.
I like coaching.
Klay Thompson stands out. He's just a tough kid.
The ACC is a great league.
You can't put pressure on yourself. You've just got to go out and play.
