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Getting swept is hard.
Giannis is such a great player.
Guarding and defending is not easy.
Every team has to work through things.
Any time your season ends it eats at you.
Respect for your teammates is important to us.
Things happen. Things change. It's part of life.
At the end of the day, winning is always rewarded.
What LeBron James has done in our league is phenomenal.
We always say the wine tastes a little better after a win.
There's no doubt Giannis, he just wants to work and work and work.
John Collins has been a great offensive rebounder since jump street.
To add a player in the draft is something we always look forward to.
Any NBA coach, you just try to figure out what is best for your group.
You have to go out on the court and execute on both ends of the court.
You have to have guys that will compete every night, every possession.
There are so many pick and rolls in an NBA game. It's so hard to guard.
I would have never ever dreamed of my career playing out the way it did.
I'm very appreciative of Atlanta. I love living here. I love coaching here.
The best decisions are made when everyone is included, everyone is involved.
I would say we took a lot of pride in our player development program in Atlanta.
Point guards love it when a guy can pick and pop and make a shot and make threes.
That's the great thing for coaches... we'll find more things where we can get better.
I literally remember going in my backyard and my dad teaching me Paul Westphal moves.
The health and well-being of our players are a critical component of our ability to succeed.
The only social rule you recognized in high school was that Mormon girls don't date non-Mormons.
Being the youngest, my siblings took great care of me and pushed me in all the right directions.
My dream was to be an assistant college coach, maybe a head coach, maybe at a Division III school.
Not winning and those types of things are difficult. There is no doubt. You can't say they are not.
It's a tough job to be the owner in a rebuild, to be the GM, to be the coach. These are tough jobs.
It's part of, I guess, one of the harder parts about coaching is you have to make some tough decisions.
I think that coming to work every day and what we try and do and accomplish, there's a seriousness to it.
It always starts with having great competitors on your team, in your front office, on your coaching staff.
The way things were done in San Antonio gave me a great 19-year look into how you can have sustained success.
Whoever has a great idea, it doesn't matter who it comes from. You just want to have as many good ideas as you can.
Growing up in a small community where everybody knows everybody, it was a lot of fun. Great friends, great memories.
For every team in the playoffs, their defensive intensity, their defensive attention to detail just becomes greater.
I think individually, Al Horford is very special, very unique. He's a guy that can kind of be the backbone of the defense.
If you have the right kind of guys who are pushing each other and at the same time supporting each other, it's pretty cool.
You never want to put yourself in a position where you can bring negativity to yourself or the organization and your teammates.
Probably the No. 1 characteristic, if you want win championships, you've got to be great competitors. It's got to come naturally.
I'm going to get better as a coach. Or at least I certainly hope to and plan to and need to work to, and have that as my mindset.
If we're competing and we're doing the daily fundamental things that we talk about every day, then everything will sort itself out.
Any player that values winning, success would be great in a system that emphasizes unselfishness and ball movement and player movement.
I can tell you, those video guys are truly trained to see the spacing, the timing, how offenses progress, what are teams doing defensively.
There is great effort to balance the short term with the long term. How are we trying to achieve sustained success? That includes success now.
You have to stay disciplined from the start of the game to the end of the game, from the start of the possession to the end of the possession.
Lots of coaches like to draw up a play in a timeout and most, if not all of them, are drawn up against man-to-man type coverages and defenses.
I think we usually err on the side of giving players a lot of confidence and freedom within the motion to make plays and make reads and make decisions.
Playing unselfish basketball is a core component of our basketball culture and high assist totals are a great indicator that we are playing the right way.