Quotes About Basketball

Before I got big, I was playing point guard, so I'm kinda like a pass-first person. Some people tell me I should be more selfish, but that's not me.

My 10th grade year I was 6-foot-4 and I grew to like 6-foot-7, but I still had my guard skills. I was playing point guard, I was a big guard. People started calling me 'Penny Hardaway' - comparing me to him because I was a big guard.

I want to make sure the other point guard can't start his offense until 12 or 13 seconds. Then I've put my team in position to defend just one pick-and-roll and one pass.

I think I'm a shooting guard and a point guard, to be honest with you.

I don't like Derrick Rose, he'd rather score than distribute. That's not who I want as my point guard.

As a point guard, you don't really have to score. The only time you have to score is when you have to score.

I play a certain way and played like that for a while. Maybe you want a point guard to shoot 20 times, I like more to pass the ball and do my job running the team.

I'll try to help everybody. That's what I try to do as a point guard.

I play everything but point guard.

Definitely, my whole life I've played as a point guard. I've tried to get in the paint, and I've tried to develop for others.

In college, I got better at playing the 2, kind of got a feel for it coming off screens, found my rhythm. Before that I was a natural point guard.

Coach Kidd has taught me a lot just from the point guard position.

It's good to know you have a pass-first point guard who will make the right plays.

I'm a playmaking guard, a pass-first point guard.

If you give him a 3-point shot, you might as well count it. I'd rather have Steph Curry beat me 14 points and 14 assists than let him get 40. Because his 40 is just so loud. And it's because of those 3s.

I guarantee you, if you could give me 10 points in all those seventh games against the Boston Celtics, instead of Bill Russell having 11 rings, I could've at least had nine or eight.

One day, I'd like to get a quadruple double, points, assists, rebounds and blocks.

I know what my purpose is. I know what I need to do out there on the floor. Sometimes you won't score a bunch of points, but breathing confidence into the people around you is the biggest key, the biggest role.

I am in Cleveland, I do wear No. 2, and I do wear Kyrie's. That's gonna be linked together. I just got to take it.

To see LeBron win a championship for the city of Cleveland, I'm from Cleveland. It's a big thing.

I know sometimes the shots look a little crazy when I'm taking them early in the shot clock and stuff like that.

Reading what a good shot is, based on time and score of the game, based on the shot clock, based on my position - there's a lot of things that go into it. It's a lot of things that you think about based on when to shoot it or when not to.

You have to have that balance of scoring and playmaking, and learn how to be a closer.

I always have confidence, whether I miss four in a row or make four in a row, that the next one's going in. To a coach, sometimes that might not make sense.