You have to do something in your life that is honorable and not cowardly if you are to live in peace with yourself, and for the firefighter it is fire. |
You have to respect what they [Washington] did. They played hard. They just came off of a tough road trip. They have to go back out and play some tough games and they came out tonight with much more energy. |
You hope by watching it that they'll do something about it. It's kind of befuddling right now because we talk about the same things over and over again. |
You hope that you have some veteran guys who will pick them up, and as a coach, I have to keep reminding them of that. But it's difficult. |
You know, he's got the ball all the time. I ran probably as much stuff for him tonight as I have at any time. It's just one of those nights. Maybe he didn't feel like he had it. But we got three assists and no steals. |
You never get five guys doing (the right thing) every time, and that's the only way you can be successful. |
You walk into this place, and none of these guys will jump out at you. But they are a hard-working group ? probably the best group I've ever coached. |
You want me to leave him under the bus? Yeah, I saw the play and I saw it on the film. I'm not happy about it. It's not what you . . . you can't expect anybody to do that. But that's over. The worst thing I can do is worry about what happened. We've got to think about what we can do to change and get better. |
You're a new coach, you come in and you try to develop a culture. But also you work on things as a group, and we've never had that. |
You're coaching a storied franchise, ... I want to see this franchise respected, being a contender every year, having people come to the Garden and saying, 'Man, they played the right way.' |
You're not always blessed with a roster that's what you truly wanted, |
You're not supposed to have to coach effort. I've never been in a situation where that's ever been an issue. I've always been in places where I knew you could count on the effort. But again, this is as young a group as I've had in a long time. |
You've got to be smart and your team has got to talk and you've got to adjust. We can make excuses about that but we have not improved that area. We have not kept people in front of us very well. It's something we've just got to keep working on and working on, because if we don't, you'll never be able to guard in this league. |