Aside from an intervention, which I don't think is on anybody's mind, Iraq is going to have defend for itself.

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

The one thing about players today is that they're very sensitive, and very fragile. They didn't grow up with tough coaches.

I think there's a lot of different ways to win. You've seen teams that win championships with a super-duper star like Kobe Bryant. Those championship teams with Michael Jordan certainly had a great, great player.

I think every time you coach a certain team, when you leave that franchise, I think you continue to grow. You take a look at the things that you did, the things you wish you had done better. You analyze your strengths and your weaknesses, and then when you move to your next job, you continue to do the same thing.

I was taught by teachers, and if it's one thing I have it's a basketball mind and I try to pass it on and pay it forward.

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.