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Iowa is always home for me.
I like to play aggressive, in general.
Predictability can eventually be defended.
We want to always play with pace on offence.
I'm getting older and mellower in my old age.
I like to have an attacking style on both ends.
They do not eat Yorkshire pudding on Sunday in Iowa.
I still say, to this day, I could not guard Nigel Lloyd.
I think we're always chasing a win once the ball goes up.
I always say we're chasing perfection in an imperfect game.
You're really in a bubble if you're not watching the league.
Esthetically, let's move the ball. Let's guard people. Let's fight.
When I started coaching, I wanted to find out quickly if I could do it.
We've got to be innovative. We've got to think about what's coming next.
Long time ago, we used to sit around eating popcorn and drawing up plays.
One of the things I like to do is let the players play and the coaches coach.
It shouldn't be two separate styles between the first and second unit as much.
The game's evolving quickly, man, and somebody's gotta be trying some new stuff.
We are trying to get away from those traditional centre, power forward type things.
I've had a lot of really good preparation. I've coached a lot of games around the world.
It's really an organizational job with a football team to watch them go through their day.
I don't mind physicality in the least - I don't mind it in the least, both ends of the floor.
If you ask what my philosophy is, my philosophy is kind of like an entrepreneurial philosophy.
It's pretty draining, the amount of games I watch on a daily basis. It's pretty much non-stop.
In a game, I'm locked in. I maybe notice three rows in the stands the arena over, and that's it.
I think I'm always a little bit under construction. I'm a project that I'm trying to improve upon.
Phil Handy played for me in England and has obviously risen to stardom in his area of what he does.
My job is to coach the team and get them to try to play the best they can come April, May, and June.
I believe in getting the ball up the floor and trying to take advantage of transition opportunities.
Most of the places I came from, you gotta do a lot of gunslinging or coaching by the seat of your pants.
I just want us to be playing our best basketball here when the playoffs start, and in the right mindset.
When I came back to England after my stint with Derby in 1995, I really wanted more time to study coaching.
I worked at chemistry and developing a style of play on both sides of the ball and studied success and winning.
I love jazz and blues, where there's a structure, but a lot of the cool stuff is veering off the page and playing.
Sometimes, I don't enjoy the wins, and I don't enjoy the losses, but I'm here just to get the result and get moving.
I'm a guy that, when there's something rolling out there, the predetermined rotations might go right in the garbage can.
I would want to start. I want to run out there in front of 20,000 people and get my name announced. I get it. I get that.
The gym in Milton Keynes or wooden backboards at Chester - maybe it didn't feel that glamorous at the time, but it was fun.
It's such a long season, right? It's certainly serious business, but it's no sense that we all have to be miserable doing it.
One of my favorite things about the D-League was going on the road and losing and not having to talk to anyone after the game.
That's your worry as a head coach: Are you going to go in there, give them everything you've got, and are they going to respond?
I think switching is like a lot of things. You can do it - it's a game plan - but you better do it well. You better practise it.
I've always been like that: after a loss, I go home and pass out and don't give it another thought. When I'm winning, I'm too excited.
I started at Grand View and all the England stuff. I just wanted to learn and get better, and that's kind of what the experiences were.
I was getting a degree in accounting, and I was going to go off and account. And as it worked out, I haven't accounted for anything since.
Try to put our guys in different positions, try some different combinations, et cetera, to prepare us for the playoffs, which is what matters.
I think there's some certain attitudes and certain guys that can feed some positive energy, and that keeps you going through an 82-game schedule.
I think if you're going to be a little bit innovative or risk-taking, sometimes you're going to be wrong, and it's going to look bad. I understand that.
As an assistant, you are grinding it out and churning out work like there are not enough hours in the day, really. As a head coach, you are doing similar.
In the regular season, they all only count for one win or one loss. But for a team or coaching staff, these are tests, and you want to see where you're at.