Quotes About Strategy

When, you know, when you're playing basketball, you have to have confidence in your moves if they're gonna work.

When I'm playing bad, I need to just hit the green.

When you're playing the best player in the world, you've got to play well.

Runs are runs, even if they are coming off playing cut shots or in front, but it's not like T20 can only be played with big shots.

I like to create chances, to shoot when I play farther forward, but I also like playing deeper, as you have more time on the ball.

There's a difference between fair game and playing games.

After a basketball game, you're gonna be physically tired, but more mentally. Playoff time comes around, you have it all in your head.

The bench is really important in the NBA because if you have a good bench, then you can make that playoff push even harder.

When it comes down to playoff basketball, it's attention to detail.

Less is always more in a playoff game.

I think when they put together this College Football Playoff, I think you... do you play a light schedule and put everything into your conference championship? That's not what I'm feeling across the country. They want to make every game important, which they have.

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.

A lot of things change in the playoffs.

It's the playoffs; you have to pick up the intensity.

In this game called football, we don't know who's going to the playoffs.

The first thought is always about making the playoffs. That's the tough part. And once you get there, only then you can allow yourself to start thinking how you are going to play in the playoffs against other teams. And a lot is left to chance then. There's an element of luck as well: sometimes you get lucky, sometimes you do not.

A manager has to convince his hitters that they have to get on base for the next guy and that no player can do it by himself. Sometimes that isn't easy. In the playoffs, you can get into trouble because everybody wants to be a hero.

Playoffs, you know, defense is elevated even more.

In the playoffs, it changes a little bit with defenses tightening up and every little thing is put under the microscope.

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

When you're in the playoffs, you have to get easy baskets and you have to limit their easy baskets.

The beauty about the playoffs is how you make an adjustment, how you come back game-to-game, and to be locked in and focused to win.

One person can't bring you to the playoffs or win a championship.

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.