Really, throughout my career, what I've done is taken teams with bad records and with every situation I've made them better.

I'm a lot of things, but none of them are great.

You have a lot of ups and downs in coaching, especially, but I can't remember any bad times at this point. I mean, they're all good. A lot of tears when you lose, a lot of down times, but I can't remember any of them. They're all positive now. Even the bad times were good.

Really, throughout my career, what I've done is taken teams with bad records and with every situation I've made them better.

When you have bad teams, you've got to be creative to win games you're not supposed to win.

I can't remember any regrets, to be honest with you.

Where ever the Mavericks are today, we owe it to Michael Finley. He was the one guy who stayed when we were a terrible team. He stayed and fought the fight.