Quotes About Strategy

I just try to set good screens and get my teammates open.

People have to understand what my game is. It's not all about numbers. There's a bigger picture here. I don't create off the dribble. I rely on my teammates; my role is to set screens and get rebounds.

When I'm out there on the mound, I'm fighting for my teammates, fighting for the ability to stay in the game for a long time. It's war. I see the hitter - I think about what I want to do, but it's a very quick process. Then I attack. It's almost primal.

You don't know how many times I was in the huddle, asking my teammates to help me call a play.

I know people are going to put the main focus on stopping me, so I need to learn how to make my teammates better by passing and creating opportunities for them.

You have to communicate with your teammates; you have to be on a string. There are a lot of things that go into a play. And then you are guarding a two or three, which is probably one of their better players on the team, so you're focused on them.

You have to be able to recognize defenses on your own in pro football. You can't look to the sideline and read some board. You've got to recognize the defense on your own, and then you've got to communicate to your offensive teammates what you want them to do.

The defense will tell you who shoots the ball. If it comes down to them trying to take the ball out of my hands, I trust my teammates to go out there and make every shot.

When teams are really out on me, I'm trying to drag them out as much as possible so my teammates can make plays.

I try to attack the glass, get rebounds and create possessions for my teammates because that's what I'm here to do. But if they face guard or put two or three guys on me I'm going to keep going to the glass and keep being relentless.

If teams focus on me, that will allow my teammates to make plays.

If a guy is shooting a shot in the corner 70 percent of the missed shots usually come off that other side and 30 percent hits off the front rim so just playing the percentages and kind of studying your teammates' shots throughout the course of the game.

First, I'm just trying to set screens for my teammates and then just be aggressive, make the right play.

When I started to do it with precision, I realized how much setting good screens made us better as a team offensively. It made things easy for me and my teammates.

I feel like I'm a guy who consistently makes the right play and the right reads offensively and that helps my teammates.

I know with Coach Messina I started to understand where my teammates were, how to use them and make them better for the benefit of the team.

I always think how I should play to make the most out of my teammates' abilities and their established styles.

Once I feel like I know my teammates, know where everybody is going to be, being a basketball player will allow me to attack from anywhere on the court, get better shots and facilitate.

I think the thing that helps you get to the next level is being able to affect the game in different ways. And that's me getting my teammates shots instead of me just coming off pin-downs.

I'm talking to my teammates and talking to the opponent. That's the type of player I am.

When you get the second defender on the ball, their responsibility is to get rid of it, to make plays for their teammates.

You need to press high, help your teammates by getting back - and, of course, score goals.

I'm just going out there, particularly defensively I am trying to help my teammates. I am trying to get my guys open with screens and such.

I can score in bunches, but it's about being able to make my teammates better and have the defense worry about something else other than me going out there aggressive and forcing it sometimes.