What distinguishes a great player is his presence. When he goes on to the court, his presence dominates the atmosphere.

To me, the most important part of winning is joy. You can win without joy, but winning that’s joyless is like eating in a four-star restaurant when you’re not hungry. Joy is a current of energy in your body, like chlorophyll or sunlight, that fills you up and makes you naturally want to do your best.

You got to have the killer instinct. If you do not have it, forget about basketball and go into social psychology or something. If you sometimes wonder if you've got it, you ain't got it. No pussycats, please.

We couldn't sustain it. And they got a lot of kids that can shoot. We just couldn't close out well enough.

The morale and the camaraderie that we had for one another earlier in the year is starting to come under duress because of all the losses. Some of the guys are feeling the pressure now from the last year when they were not successful.

Success is a result of consistent practice of winning skills and actions. There is nothing miraculous about the process. There is no luck involved.

We overreached our decision power. Sometimes our decisions have to fit the reality of the outside world.