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Nothing is ever perfect in the NBA.
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Nba
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I'm a big believer in communication.
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Communication
Believer
Big Believer Big Believer
Big Believer
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Whenever someone great passes, all of us have a loss.
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Loss
Passes
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Grinding is a mindset and a willingness and commitment to work at it.
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Commitment
Mindset
Willingness
Grinding
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Any good defensive team has a strong anchor, because he cleans up mistakes.
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Anchor
Defensive
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Small ball, spacing, shooting 3s, is something that everybody's trying to do.
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Shooting
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My brother and I used to laugh and say, 'Normal kids went to day care, and we went to the gym.'
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Brother
Gym
Normal
Laugh
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I'm always for constructive conversation, meaningful conversation, not just words, but conversation.
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Constructive
Meaningful
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You go with what you got. That's the thing about having a system, then you plug guys into your system.
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Plug
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It's always fun when you get to go somewhere new and you get to meet new people and get new experiences.
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Somewhere
Always Fun People
Experiences
Meet
New People
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Through the regular season, if you get really good at what you do, teams will have a hard time adjusting to you.
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Adjusting
Time Good Will
Hard Time
Regular Season
Teams
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It's not the way you want to get a job, to see someone you admire and look up to and learned so much from get fired.
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Fired
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No matter what your job is, you know that you need to have a routine, that you need to be disciplined, you need to work.
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Routine
Work Your Matter
Disciplined
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You can have old guys who aren't willing to be coached just like you can have young guys who aren't willing to be coached.
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Young Guys
Coached
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It's hard to argue with a coach who says, 'I just want you to work.' What can you say to that without making a fool of yourself?
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Fool
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When you want to win, and you want to go to work every day, you want to work with high character people; you want to work with classy people.
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Work Character Day
Classy
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During the regular season, you don't have the sort of time you do in the playoffs to prepare for people, so you've got to go to your strengths.
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Playoffs
Time People Your
Prepare
Regular Season
Strengths
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If you look at the teams that mix and match their starting lineup a great deal, that sort of inconsistency frequently leads to inconsistency in performance.
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Inconsistency
Deal
Frequently
Great Deal
Leads
Performance
Lineup
Match
Mix
Teams
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Conflict resolution, all those things, are important. When you're in a group environment, you have to have those. If you don't, things fester. Have the conversation. Resolve it. Move forward.
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Conflict
Resolution
Fester
Move Forward
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My dad always took over teams, except for Washington, that were rebuilding, and you hear the taunting, the jokes, negative, awful things about the person you love. That hardens you at a young age.
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Rebuilding
Young Age
Teams
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I watch a ton of movies. Going way back, I like 'The Godfather.' 'The Matrix' was one of my favorites - the first one; they got a little carried away after the first one. Those are two that stand out.
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Carried
Favorites
First One
Godfather
Matrix
Ton
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As an assistant coach, the wins and losses don't tally up on your record, so you don't necessarily have that to fall back on, so you have to find smaller games within the bigger picture to play in order to get your victories.
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Bigger Picture
Assistant
Losses
Smaller
Victories
Wins
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Every day, you learn something. That's the same as assistant coach and the same as a head coach. You should continue to learn. You watch so much basketball, you should see something somewhere from somebody different all the time.
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Time Day Every Day
Assistant
Head Coach
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We're all smart enough to figure out Xs and Os - it's basketball, it's not advanced calculus. But the most important thing is can you get your message across to players? Do they believe in you, and do they want to compete for you?
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Calculus
Enough Believe Your
Advanced
Believe Enough Your
Compete
Most Important Thing
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Let's face it, first-time assistant coaches normally don't walk into jobs with two perennial All-Stars on a team that just got bounced in the Western finals. Normally, they get a job in the middle of a year, playing for lottery balls.
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Coaches
Finals
Lottery
Assistant
Normally
Perennial
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Some guys, when they play with other elite players, they end up being too unselfish; or guys who are used to having the ball in their hands all the time, now they're not as aggressive or as instinctive because they're thinking too much out there.
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Aggressive
Unselfish
Elite
Instinctive
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A lot of times, people think of selfish, and they think of offense, but you can be selfish on the defensive end of the floor, too. If you don't uphold your end of our schemes and your responsibilities within those schemes, then you're being just as selfish.
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Offense
Schemes
Defensive
Floor
Responsibilities
Times People
Uphold
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My dad traveled so much for work that, when he was home, we always wanted to spend as much time with him as we could, so going to practices and doing stuff like that with him took precedence over Saturday morning cartoons. We'd go to practice with my dad just so we could be a part of it.
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Saturday
Saturday Morning
Traveled
Time Work Morning
Cartoons
Work Time Morning
Practices
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As a coach, the more experience you have, the more you're around players, it helps so you see how guys learn, ways that are effective to reach different people. You see the aftermath of all the things that happened; you don't just see what happens at the game, you see what happens after the game, the followthrough, and those types of things.
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Aftermath
Different People
Effective
Types
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