Quotes from Ivica Zubac

I was always trying to get in the paint and get the easiest shots I can.

I think every part of my body needs improvement.

My agent called me when we were talking before I came to the States. He told me we are going to select only three or four teams who are most interested, who are calling the most, asking for you, who are watching me the most in Europe and scouting me.

All of my shots are dunks or are around the rim.

I don't really know any people from Boston.

I always watch the playoffs.

Marc Gasol, everybody compares me to him. I try to look up to him and see how he plays and adjust my game like him.

We switched everything in G League so I had a lot of time to work on my switching.

I want to get stronger. I want to get slimmer. I'm already slimmer, but I want to get some muscles so I can fight all these guys in the post.

I have good mid-range shot and I can shoot threes, but in Europe coaches didn't want me to shoot outside because I was tall and big.

If you want to be successful and you want your teammates to respect you, you got to be open to advice from the older guys.

I live in the part of Bosnia-Herzegovina where we are the only Croatians, and we are the proudest in the world.

When you're not playing you're not feeling good because this is what I'm doing my whole life. Now when I'm finally in the rotation, everything else feels much better. Life is much better.

Here you get to play one on one more, individual basketball. I think that fits me better than in Europe. You have harder, different double teams and everybody helps, but in the NBA they let you play one on one, so I think that will fit me better.

What really pushed me into chasing basketball even more was my cousin making the NBA too, in 2003.

I knew I just gotta wait for my chances in the game and I'm gonna prove what I am able to do when I get on the floor.

Of course I want to be on the floor in the fourth.

Everyone wants to play in the fourth quarter, everyone wants to close the game. It's the most important time of the game, so being out there is great.

We're going to work hard on my body, put on some muscles. That's going to help me a lot to run faster, to move quicker, to jump higher.

It's hard to fall asleep after a game. I often go to sleep at 4 A. M. because I'm thinking about the game and my mind is racing.

I just wanted to play and that's all I worried about. If someone wanted to trade for me, I always thought it was a good sign.

I am living a great life.

I gotta defend, I gotta protect the rim, I gotta rebound, I gotta set good picks for the guys, finish on offense, and I think that is not going to change much.

I'm feeling like I can stay on the floor for a while. I can run the floor. I can fight in the post with guys. I can rebound.