It's a sad commentary when I have to say that sometimes in our country we are real sensitive to race.

But I like to think an athlete is an athlete.

There's so many young peoople who start to play basketball and never learn the fundamentals.

Some players are more physical than others, some play with more finesse. Some are just really great all-around players. So you have to change your game.

I think that basketball players should get the job done no matter how it looks on the screen.

When you go into a game on offense, you make a couple moves and see what the defender is going to do. Then you pretty much can figure out what he is going to do against you - whether he carries his hands low or high, whether he is bumping or pushing, those type of things.

You look at today, it's a different situation. You have a game that has been transformed into a game where almost every shot is either an outside shot - a three-point shot - or a dunk.