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Can your player make a curl cut and score in the lane? If so, he is the cutter.
If you can do something and not blow your own horn, it sure sounds a lot better.
There is nothing more important than rebounding... don't just give it lip service.
Habits are critical for players. They cannot think and play well at the same time.
Plays are not as important as players, and players are not as important as teammates
It is foolish to expect a young man to follow your advice and to ignore your example.
Tough minded enough to do the necessary things--this is the epitome of what a team is.
Quickness more than anything else should determine your amount of pressure on the ball.
Play off your great player... great teams have a go-to player and they play off of him.
In practice, don't just run basketball drills, teach the players how to play basketball.
If I cover my head with my hands, it means deny the ball to the opponent's ball handler.
In the end, what your own troops do is more important than who they are marching against.
A coach who is not teaching leads to the worst thing in a program -- players not learning.
Parents would rather have their son get all-state than his team win the state championship.
Positioning, anticipation and technique create quickness. Therefore, you can always get quicker
Shared suffering: one guy messes up and everyone runs. One guy does well and everyone benefits.
When you get to be my age, you don't buy green bananas because you may not be around to eat them.
To win it all, winners have to be obsessive about the fundamentals and doing the little things right.
You can pick captains, but you can't pick leaders. Whoever controls the locker room controls the team
As a coach, you're just trying to figure out how to keep a team on edge. You've got to find that edge.
Administrators are like pigs; don't wrestle with a pig because you both get dirty and the pig likes it.
Complacency is the forerunner of mediocrity. You can never work too hard on attitudes, effort and technique.
Your program must have an overriding purpose which is clearly visible and which teaches lessons beyond winning.
The ability to rebound is in inverse proportion to the distance your house is from the nearest railroad tracks.
Successful basketball coaches are those that subscribe to a system that is based on sound fundamental teachings.
You have to clean out the pig barn every week because you know your pigs are in there doing their jobs every day.
I tell everyone that I have 25,000 assistant coaches. If I want to know something, I just go to the grocery store.'
Successful programs consist of people working hard, working together, while never worrying about who gets the credit.
We have 2,500 students and an 8,000-seat basketball arena. You do the math on how important basketball is in Aberdeen.
I have learned that peace is not the absence of trial, trouble, or torment but the presence of calm in the midst of them
If a farmer and his family can get up at 5:30 every morning to milk cows, surly we can get up at that time to practice basketball.
We painted a beautiful picture, but we just didn't finish it. Finishing is the difference between a beautiful picture and a masterpiece.
There is a lot of difference at McDonald's between the guy in the back making the fries and the manager up front who is running the place.
Anytime you get an award as a coach, you've got to be the ultimate fool to think it wasn't your assistant coaches and all the players responsible for the award.
Winning a postseason game is like winning five regular season games. There is just no feeling like it. Everything is magnified. Every free throw, turnover, shot and play.
Nobody travels better than Northern State fans and nobody knows the game better than Northern State fans. If I'd die and went to heaven and I was coaching, it would be at Wachs Arena.
We had 10 turnovers tonight. Each one gets worse as you go. It is like prior arrests: the 10th one may not have been that bad, but when you have had nine prior ones, it looks pretty bad.
You have to learn things in every game because you are not going to be able to practice two-and-a-half to three hours (during the season), so the games have to be the ultimate learning experience.
We have to get a lot tougher. If you get involved in a street fight, you can't lay down in the street and act like you're dead because they will kill you for sure. You might as well get up and fight.
We always need to be prepared and work hard in practice so we can be just like the farmer who has put that fourth cutting of hay in the barn. After he does that, he can feel good about what is going to happen the rest of the winter.
When I go in for heart surgery, I want a full-time surgeon. I don't want some guy who just does it part-time between rounds of golf. You want a guy who is doing it all the time and is always reading and learning about the most recent techniques.
Our goal as a team is to keep playing as a group for as long as we can because you will never have that team again. It is like a dying limb, you have to prune it off and let another one grow in its place. That is the way you have to do it, but it still hurts losing these guys and that team because they and you have put so much effort into building a team. Even if you win that last game (and a national championship), it hurts badly because the players know they will never have that same special group of guys together on the same team again. Somebody always goes and somebody new always comes in.