Coach

Nothing is ever perfect in the NBA.

You don't win without talent, but your talent has to have purpose.

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.

Whenever someone great passes, all of us have a loss.

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.

I hope I continue to learn. If I don't, then I know everything.

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.

I'm always for constructive conversation, meaningful conversation, not just words, but conversation.

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.

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?

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.

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.

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.

Any good defensive team has a strong anchor, because he cleans up mistakes.

You go with what you got. That's the thing about having a system, then you plug guys into your system.

My brother and I used to laugh and say, 'Normal kids went to day care, and we went to the gym.'

It's always fun when you get to go somewhere new and you get to meet new people and get new experiences.

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.

Grinding is a mindset and a willingness and commitment to work at it.

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.