It's about what the players are doing. My job is facilitate that. My job is to put them in positions to succeed. My job is to listen to their ideas, take them if they're good, quietly push them to the side if they're not. My job is to help them grow.
I believe in getting the ball up the floor and trying to take advantage of transition opportunities.
Sometimes, I don't enjoy the wins, and I don't enjoy the losses, but I'm here just to get the result and get moving.
I just want us to be playing our best basketball here when the playoffs start, and in the right mindset.
Chemistry kind of builds all season. It's not like we say, 'OK, it's game one, and now we've got our chemistry.' I think it shifts and moves all season long.
We've got to be innovative. We've got to think about what's coming next.
You're really in a bubble if you're not watching the league.
I think I jumped the gun a bit on head coaching. I got named a head coach at 23, and I really didn't know what I was doing. I remember getting that job and going, 'Oh my God, they gave me the job.'
I don't mind physicality in the least - I don't mind it in the least, both ends of the floor.
I know, when I'm walking out on the court before for the game, it's like, man, if you wanna compete, here it is. It's coming. That's something I really enjoy.
It's really an organizational job with a football team to watch them go through their day.
I think there's always enough right in front of me worrying about who's playing the minutes tomorrow, but you've always got to have an eye on a year or two from now and what those guys will do if you think, 'Well, let's give them a full year at the 905 and see how they progress.'
I don't think when I decided I didn't want to be an accountant any more that I was necessarily saying I wanted to be an NBA head coach. I just really wanted to figure out if I could do it.
We've gotta be trying to think of what's coming next before it comes next.
I understand there are bumps in the road. I understand there's a lot of noise that I don't want to listen to, and I just try to do my job to the best of my ability.
An entrepreneur will do whatever they have to do to make sure things get done. Our coaches will be that way; our players will be that way. Just do what it takes.
People asked me, 'Why aren't you doing something more important?' When I was doing well in the D-League, they were like, 'Why can't you get an NBA job? Or a college job?' I don't think people thought much of what I was doing. That's fine. I was learning. Not just X's and O's, but team dynamics.
If you ask what my philosophy is, my philosophy is kind of like an entrepreneurial philosophy.
It's pretty draining, the amount of games I watch on a daily basis. It's pretty much non-stop.
As an assistant, you are grinding it out and churning out work like there are not enough hours in the day, really. As a head coach, you are doing similar.
