You could spend the entire offseason preparing for what New Orleans does to this point, ... But if they're a zone team, they could decide, you know what, we're going to blitz every down. In preseason, it's really about you and what you're trying to do than what's the opponent doing. |
You could tell by what he did all spring. He came over on his own, watched every practice, sat in on almost every meeting he could, was here every day in the summertime. And then his intent is so strong to try to be a player. He's a guy that you can count on, and that's a big thing. |
You do have to play better. In the playoffs it's going to be a different game; you're only going to score two or three a game because teams are going to shut it down. Discipline will be at a different level, so you won't get as many power-play opportunities, so we have to be better. |
You have a good grip on how you game-plan things and what you want to do. But until you jump in the fire and have to do it, with a real limited amount of time, and make adjustments, and change your thought process based on what's happened that Sunday ... It's an interesting process. |
You have a lack of housing in the New Orleans area, utilities out in a good portion of the city, people looking for schools for their children, you don't have day care or transportation. Those are just some of the reasons why people are staying put where they are and not going home. |
You have Taiwan Semi saying that future orders look weak and that's indicative of a lot of companies. You just had Sun Microsystems return to profitability, but then take it back for the next quarter. All these comments show that any tech recovery is probably pushed back until 2003. |
You have to approach every game with a positive attitude. When we've had success in the tournament, we've always ended the season in a positive way. We need to win that first game to get over everything. Win that first game and then it's up to us as coaches to trick them after that. |
You have to defend Geary Claxton with somebody like him, somebody 6-foot-5, 215. You've got to mirror him. If you go with too much size, he's going to use his quickness to get to the basket, post up and spin. If you go with someone smaller, he's just going to kill him on the boards. |
You have to win a game like this, ... It was important for us to win a game like this. You go in and everyone is talking about it all week of what a lopsided game it could be. ... In the past, we might have let this one slip away, but this is a different team and a different season. |
You have two guys who, when you put them on the low post, both demand a double team and they pass the ball, which means you can get good open shots with no one contesting. And when they don't do that, both of them draw a lot of fouls. We should be able to get to the foul line a lot. |
You just got be more disciplined. That's all. I mean, moving and flinching when you're not supposed to. I've been here for a long time. Things like that, you just don't do. You can't do things like that and expect to stay in this league. So I've just got to clean stuff like that up. |
You just want the big guy to be comfortable, because he's very important for us. If working with one catcher does it, fine. If it doesn't matter, fine. We're still in the process of putting that together, but he's had good games with both catchers, so we're not locked into anything. |
You know grief. You've had it in your own life. But I don't use it directly. It's processed through my acting instincts, the bit of me that knows about those things, so when it comes out it's not my grief that you're seeing, it's the grief of that character. It's active imagination. |
You know I can't tell you that. It's a lot of things (the Packers) have a tendency to do. Stuff that you can really notice from watching film but also little things that I've seen. Whether it's players, whether it's schemes, just little stuff. Hopefully we can use it to help us out. |
You know I think it's hard in any film when you're kissing someone who you don't really have genuine feelings for... but at the same time it's our job so... there are worse things I could be doing on that particular day than kissing Tom Cruise I suppose... i'm not going to complain. |