In practice, don't just run basketball drills, teach the players how to play basketball.
You can pick captains, but you can't pick leaders. Whoever controls the locker room controls the team
What you accept in victory, you must accept in defeat.
I tell everyone that I have 25,000 assistant coaches. If I want to know something, I just go to the grocery store.'
It doesn't matter where you coach, it matters why you coach.
Tough minded enough to do the necessary things--this is the epitome of what a team is.