Quotes About Basketball

Offence doesn't concern me. It's easier for people to get layups than it is to get stops on defence or a block.

We couldn't get enough Jeremy Lin material in the NBA store fast enough. And when we did, it was just gone in minutes.

I look at basketball as like a storm. But it's the eye of the storm. The calmest place of it is to be right in the eye of it. And that's what basketball is for me; it's my eye. And while everything else around me is going on,' he continued, 'the destruction and things like that, basketball keeps me calm.

When I got hurt, I wanted to develop my skills from a storytelling perspective, do the work, read books. Develop things. To be the storyteller for basketball, period.

I played in Joe Louis in a playoff game. I played there when the roof caved in for half a season. The facility is great for basketball because it goes straight up, so you feel like the fans are on top of you.

Street basketball is all about shakes and fakes, crossing your defender up. The NBA is more strategic.

My parents were willing to spend time and invest time in my hobbies, no matter how odd they seemed. When I was really young, I collected rocks and minerals. But mostly I would hang out with friends, playing basketball. It was not the most eventful childhood, but I think that's good.

I've looked up to Michael Jordan because not only was he an assassin on offense, he was an assassin on defense.

People watch the points, they watch the highlights. But the defense I think helps the offense.

I was letting the lack of touches on offense really affect my defense.

I always try to play hard as possible to help my team - it doesn't matter if it's on defense or offense. I would say when I was young I was playing like that, too.

At the three, you can kind of float around. At the four, it's not as much freedom on offense.

When I feel like it's my shot within the flow of the offense and getting in any rhythm, I feel like I should make every one of them.

For me, it's about making the winning plays, making the right plays, making the basketball plays and being aggressive whether it's on defense or offense.

I can shoot the 3. I can play off the catch. I get offensive rebounds. And I still have a lot of energy left to defend.

The only problem that I had in my younger years and in college was not knowing if I had the confidence on the offensive side to just take over.

LeBron is LeBron. They're not going to call offensive fouls on him. He gets to do what he wants.

Mike D'Antoni is a great offensive mind. He's a great coach.

Joe Kleine is not a legitimate center in the sense that he is not a shot blocker and not an intimidator. He's not a force on the offensive end.

Mike D'Antoni is one of the best offensive coaches in the whole game of basketball, by far.

It's an offensive foul if you go into the defender's body, but if I fade and a guy runs into my leg, it's a foul.

John Collins has been a great offensive rebounder since jump street.

I don't know where all this stuff comes from. This guy is an offensive guru. This guy is a defensive guru.' I don't even understand that. To me, you're a basketball coach.

James Harden is one of the best offensive players in the game.