414 ordspråk av George Karl
George Karl
The silver lining is we have probably 12 guys who can play. I would not probably be as fearful of playing any of them. The negative is fitting them together.
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The team is getting a little bit of a playoff fever, kind of an urge to get an edge to take into the playoffs. We still got to take care of some business in the regular season. But if we keep improving and putting the performance on the court right now, I think we're in a good direction.
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The team responded great. They had a confidence (Sunday) morning. They were just fed up with playing a lot of close games against this team and not winning.
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The third quarter was a bad quarter offensively. You can't let a team shoot the basketball so freely like we let Utah tonight. They were a hungry team. They were also physically tougher than we were tonight.
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The truth of the matter is, we're not far away from where we should be. We can complain about the problem or we can go out and solve the problem. I choose to go out and try to solve the problem.
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The whole thing for me . . . is pace and passing. Right now, Earl and Earl gives us the best pace and passing. And I don't get them together now as often as I like. So maybe changing the lineup . . . to get Earl and Earl a 6 -to 8-minute stint together (off the bench).
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Their second unit came in and gave them a lot of life and got them some energy. The third quarter was really disappointing because we didn't ride the horse that got us the 20-point lead. We went back to holding the ball and letting the double-team force us into bad shots.
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Their zone messed us up, with our bad defense. And then we had bad turnovers, and then we had bad rebounding.
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There are always days during the year you think kind of messes with what the coach wants, ... Picture day. Ball- signing day. Sponsor day. All those things everybody wants to kind of steal and touch the players. I understand that. I thought we had a pretty good practice despite it.
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There was a bit of trauma hitting us this morning. We were really solemn, crying. Right now we are just happy that everything is OK.
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There were a lot of nice words, ... It helps keep your spirits up.
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There's a point in (every NBA season when) talent stops being important and chemistry and character become more important, and I think Phoenix is probably in that stretch. It's a situation that's got to be handled and probably once it's handled you're happy about it. There's some growing pains to it. There might be a loss that you might not have had, but in the same sense he might win a playoff game that the (team) would've lost.
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There's a rumor out of the league office that we're trying to take flopping out of the game, but I don't think that was orchestrated very much in those two calls.
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There's a thin line between confidence and complacency. I didn't see a lot of complacency. Now we've got two (Western) Conference foes. It's going to be important that we try to get at least one (win).
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There's an inner confidence that comes from winning a division. We celebrated within ourselves, said some thanks and congratulated each other. Hopefully its the beginning of a tradition and something we can accomplish every year.
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