Quotes About Strategy

It's the playoffs. Teams are gonna go on runs.

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

You want to see the team that is in the playoffs.

Teams that can run the football, stop the run and take care of the football will win in the playoffs.

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

You always take rest over rust in the playoffs.

For every team in the playoffs, their defensive intensity, their defensive attention to detail just becomes greater.

Certain games aren't going to be my game. Certain games aren't going to be other people's games. As long as we win with the main goal to make the playoffs, that's all that matters.

When you get into the playoffs, there become a lot of different storylines. But it's all about putting together a team that competes for a title.

I think running the ball effectively is the key to winning games in the playoffs.

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

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

If you commit to the defensive end of the floor, you're going to have a chance to win every night. And if you're a great defensive team, you're going to go to 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.

The most important thing is win enough games to get into the playoffs. Then, once you get into the playoffs, win.

Being rested and playing bad is not going to be a good formula going into the playoffs. That's not good.

I thought the playing time I was getting during the season was getting me ready for the playoffs. When it didn't happen and Coach Riley never told me why, I thought, 'Maybe I'm just being used as a pawn in the game.'

Like I always say, it's not how many great plays you make; it's how few bad ones you make. I know fans, and even some losing coaches, are enamored with long pass completions or the great run plays, but that doesn't offset the interception or the fumble.

When I scramble and do those things, I try to look downfield, look for the playmakers, put it in their hands, and let them make all the big plays happen.

An impatient person plays differently than a more patient person.

I used to play as a 'goleiro-linha,' it's a goalkeeper that plays a lot with his feet.

My way of playing is very different and Karpov plays very differently as well.

It's my job to get us in good plays, or more importantly, out of bad plays. That's what I did.