The best thing that I think happened to me was I got the opportunity to have really good players and we were able to meet the demand of the competition. And I think that's what I value most.
I'm not railing, 'This is inadequate' or 'This isn't right.' Just show me what will work.
The problem with trading dominant players of that size is you never get in return what you've bargained away.
I probably would have no capability of absorbing a 60-defeat season as a coach. It would be a foreign experience. My whole career, even as a player, has been on winning basketball clubs and it just seems to have been a part of the make-up of what’s been given me. That’s what I’ve been given and that’s what I’ve had to deal with. Some people can make fun of it or some people can have a good time with it, or some people can resent it. It’s just what it is.
Basketball, unlike football with its prescribed routes, is an improvisational game, similar to jazz. If someone drops a note, someone else must step into the vacuum and drive the beat that sustains the team.
Everybody has an opportunity to play a role, a playmaking role, so it makes it harder to coach. It takes a little more time.
I know what it takes to be a coach. I've gone through that. I think I came up short my last season. Lots of things were happening physically to me, and emotionally, perhaps mentally, too. I thought it was time to tend to more important things, like health and like family. I still enjoy that, and I don't think I have any need to go back to coach.
I expect a cigar.....not lit, hopefully
I played hockey in North Dakota growing up and watch a lot of that.
Pau is one of the best big men in the game. I mean, Pau Gasol is going to be in the Hall of Fame.
I'm a sports-watcher. I played football and baseball, coached baseball. So I watch those things.
Not everyone has a purpose.
