Just because it is an All-Star Game doesn't mean that you are playing as efficiently as you should.
I'm sorry that the young athletes in basketball will not get the chance to play (in the Olympics) anymore, and live that dream.
But if people are buying the products, naturally they're gonna use them.
I think no one has written a history of the great coaches who were around 30 to 40 years ago who taught the fundamentals.
College coaches want to power the ball inside, they want (their post players) to power the ball up, but no one can shoot from that 15-foot area anymore.
People say that, but I think the NBA was bigger than Larry Bird and Magic Johnson.
People will think there are no other great ballplayers. Look at Garnett. Look at Duncan, Shaq, Kobe. Look at the players with Sacramento. The have a really good basketball team.
But when I did it (the triple-double), I didn't even know it until someone told me.
The triple-double is just a stat. It's a test of your strength and stamina and playing ability, really.
Now, I guess, people want stars. People are trying to invent stars.
When I started playing, I wasn't fast, I was gangly, my jumpshot was terrible.
In going for the last shot of the game most people wait too long to take the shot. Give yourself a chance to get the first shot and tap the ball in. Your players are normally inside the defense.
Practices should be for the players and not the coach. Practices should be fun for the players, positive in nature, and last no more than two hours.
To be successful you need to have good, happy Players.
Growing up, I always thought of Detroit as a basketball town because of the Pistons, but everyone says it's really, at its core, a football town.
I'm not going to lie. I check the iTunes charts. It's all about the iTunes charts. I only go on the Internet for the iTunes charts and basketball blogs.
They wanted me as coach.
Once we announce the staff here, in the next week, two weeks, whatever it takes, I think everyone's going to be shocked at how good a staff we put together.
There's not going to be a whole lot of change, to be honest with you. I don't think there's a reason to fix what's broke.
The Bowling Green game was a big-time environment. We wanna see that for all the games.
We got almost the entire team coming back; we only had two seniors last year. We plan not just on making it back, but on taking the next step.
One of the learning curves I'm not going to have is being a head coach.
The head coach has to crack down a little more.
A return to the NCAA is the expectation... I think that's a good pressure. I'd rather that pressure to the other way. ... I like a little pressure on me.
I've been on the phone, I think, 20 out of 24 hours the last three days.
