When you're losing game after game after game it's tough. It's hard to keep them up. It's hard to get guys to keep competing. It's really tough on the young kids. But you can't stop coaching and trying to get better. You hope you have something positive to talk about. |
Wherever I've been it's always been about team. That's the only thing that really matters. If that doesn't matter you ought to run track, play golf, play tennis, things like that. |
Whether we win or lose, I haven't seen change in terms of effort. It's about how professional he is and how much he competes [every game]. |
With Dice [Antonio McDyess] all last year, I had a hard time breathing. Every time they jump, I get nervous. |
With this win, in that locker room, they needed something positive. |
Yeah, if he'll buy into what we're trying to do, which I don't think is very difficult, and I don't think it impacts him in a negative way at all. I think it will help him. |
You can see there's some hope. |
You can't fault the effort. Guys are trying to win the game. But when you make mistakes during the guts of the game and you don't have time to overcome them, it magnifies the mistakes. We just had a horrendous fourth quarter and they had a great fourth quarter. |
You can't guard him. He's phenomenal. We had nine turnovers in the first quarter and you can't guard him in transition. I think once we got better control of the tempo, we did a better job. |
You can't have four or five guys come to play. I didn't know [coaching effort] would be my job, but I guess it is. |
You don't get to the position I've been able to get to without a lot of help from other people. I've been blessed with the players I've had the privilege to coach and the coaches who taught me, I know when something happens for me those people are happier than me. |
You don't have players on the team that can't play a style that's comfortable for the coach. Isiah and I understand that. He knows the guys I like in the league. It's not easy to make trades. My job is to find out what these guys can do and if they can do the things we think will help us be a good team for the long run. |
You gotta understand what I?m about, ... This is a team sport. |
You guys forget everything we worked on for six days, ... Nobody is setting a screen, cutting and we end up with a (bad) shot. |
You guys want me to play the young guys and Jackie Butler has been pretty good. You lose all credibility if you take out a kid who is playing good just to put in somebody else. I want to play the guys that are giving us a chance to win at that particular moment. My hope is that Eddy Curry can play 40 minutes every game. |