A closing team is so important in the NBA. The last seven minutes is what you are always coaching to get to. Now you have your team set, you have the match-ups you want, you have your time-outs, your chance to finish the game, and that's my job, to get us to that position during the course of the game.

I think that Paul Gasol is the most skilled big man in the NBA today with his ability to post on either block, the way he runs the floor, and the way he can shoot the mid-range jump shot.

Any time Detroit scores more than 100 points and holds the other team below 100 points they almost always win.

Don't ever have a rule that you won't enforce with your best player.

The great thing about basketball is you work as hard as you can to individually get better so that your team can win

Work as hard as you can to become as good an individual player as you can to help your team win

I'm a numbers guy, and I think numbers sometimes tell stories and sometimes they don't. When you look at the NBA, when teams shoot 45% or better from the floor, what is their record? And if they shoot under that what is their record?