Quotes About Tactics

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

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.

An impatient person plays differently than a more patient person.

Cristiano Ronaldo is a player who often plays on the left side and moves between the lines.

I think it all goes down to who plays the better football on the night.

A good football team plays offense and defense. You have to be aggressive and disrupt.

Sometimes you have to just plug away, plug away in your game of football and maybe when your opponent gets a bit more tired you get that little extra metre and that's when you score the goals.

When you are playing with a few players in the pocket, it doesn't leave me isolated. I have a bit more space to work and be higher up the pitch.

The pistol isn't going to go away, but the job in the long run is going to be to deliver the ball from the pocket.

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.

The important thing to understand, from my point of view, is if the opponents break our lines and they are attacking our box, something has gone wrong, and it is me who has to fix it. But fouls in football are normal. You have to do it sometimes.

But just maybe sometimes being even more patient. Even though I thought I did that much better this year, and sometimes, you know, make my opponents play that one extra ball, and just knowing how to play the big points better.

When you go into the other guy's backyard you cannot hope to win on points.

You have to win games by scoring points, of course, so that's important. But when you're having nights against a good defensive team, you have to win in a different manner. You have to win a defensive-type game.

Everyone does things differently on offense. Everyone's goal is to score points.

Ancelotti is very clever, very clever.

I'm not clever enough to be in machinations and real politics.

This is football, so you need to be clever to understand the moment and win games.

Rushing the ball is all about ball control. If you run the ball, you control the clock. If you control the clock, you usually control the game.

There are incredible decisions made in a 48-minute game with a 24-second shot clock and the last two minutes of a game.

Play in Ligue 1 is very closed, very aggressive.

The job as a coach is difficult.

All coaches say, 'We want to control the game. We want the ball. Blah, blah, blah, blah,' but it's impossible to have the ball all the time.

There are different psychologies that different coaches have.