Quotes About Challenges

Playoff basketball isn't about who scores, stats or putting numbers up on the board. It's just about winning at the end of the day. When you play a game in a series, it becomes chess. It becomes who can outsmart the other team.

Playing the whole season and going through the whole playoffs in 2011 was the hardest 10-month period.

The playoffs are a different animal, and any team can beat you on any day.

In Kansas City, most of the time, if we'd have made it to the playoffs, we would have been happy. But our team wasn't that good.

The playoffs are a chess match, with adjustments every game.

The playoffs are the playoffs. You just play who is put in front of you.

It doesn't matter if it's game one or game 82, playoffs or whatever. Sometimes the basketball gods don't play in your favor that night.

When you have a year of experience and also the experience of playing in the playoffs, it just makes a world of difference.

The season is a beast within itself. It's not the quickest race; it's a marathon. In the playoffs - if you're fortunate enough to make the playoffs - that's more like a dash. You have to concentrate on one opponent. When they're done, you have to concentrate on another one.

Everyone starts the playoffs with the same record. It doesn't matter who won 70 games or whatever.

The playoffs are tough. It's a different game.

You have to be able to win on the road if you want to win in the playoffs.

After going through the playoffs, you definitely get a sense for how important it is to go through it at least once before you win.

It's not easy to make the playoffs, and I think a lot of people overlook that. They think it's a piece of cake, but it's definitely not.

It feels good to win a game, because it's tough to win in this league, and then when you talk about the playoffs and being in it for two of three years, what a blessing.

I believe that every single game in the Playoffs, round 1 to Eastern Conference Finals, every single game is a different game.

I just want to go deep in the playoffs and be put in that situation where I'm locked in and the game and the season is on the line.

There's nothing that can teach you about the playoffs besides going through it.

I am confident that I am a young coach that continues to improve and continues to get better and have been able to find success in the regular season and haven't been able to find it in two completely different circumstances in the playoffs.

You have to be ready for anything in the playoffs.

In the regular season you always say, 'Take it one game at a time.' But the playoffs, they kind of make you do that.

When you're playing a good team, not too many point guards want to go one on one. When you're playing a not-so-good team, teams that are fighting to make the playoffs, guys are going to want to try and get their own. It's just a different read of each team.

It's the NHL playoffs, I'm 20 years old, I'm finding it out the hard way that playoffs aren't easy.

You look at it every year, how many teams are in and out of the playoffs, and how close the league is, it seems like every team is not too far away.