In Phil's case, I was personally thrilled he came back, because I think it's huge for the league. When you think about what he's done and how many championships he's won, there's always drama when he comes back in.

I can't make every decision for you. I don't have 14 timeouts. You guys got to get together and talk

They won't choose Joakim Noah as the MVP, but I think it's great that he's in the conversation and he should be. But it's just not the way it works, from my experience. It's got to go in the basket for you guys to pay attention to somebody. But he's pretty damn valuable in my opinion.

No one is bigger than the team. If you can't do things our way, you're not getting time here and we don't care who you are

I asked them if it wasn't too much trouble, if I wasn't being too pushy, if they could execute what we were trying to do. And if it didn't make them too angry, if they also wanted to play some defense on the other end, that would be great.

It's never been my goal to be king of the prom. It's been my goal to do the right thing and get the job done.

Basketball's a game of mistakes.