The way you execute in this league is through repetition, and that's both offensively and defensively. — Tom Thibodeau Copy Share Image
What I look at is, OK, this is our team. How can we get better? What gives us the best chance to… — Tom Thibodeau Copy Share Image
Sometimes you think you know someone as a player, but then you spend six weeks together, and you really get to know… — Tom Thibodeau Copy Share Image
Figuring out what your players do well and finding a system that will work effectively for them gives you the best chance… — Tom Thibodeau Copy Share Image
I think when you look around it's: How can you build a team in which you have more than one star? That… — Tom Thibodeau Copy Share Image
I try to work out. As an assistant, it was a lot easier to work out. Then as a head coach, not… — Tom Thibodeau Copy Share Image
At Team U.S.A., I've worked with Doc Rivers, Jeff Van Gundy, Brendan Malone, not just great head coaches but assistants and great… — Tom Thibodeau Copy Share Image
Normally a summer league is a dry run for training camp, gives the guys an idea what training camp looks like, and… — Tom Thibodeau Copy Share Image
I think when you look at Jimmy Butler when he came in, he hardly played as a rookie. He played more each… — Tom Thibodeau Copy Share Image
As you prepare for the draft, the first thing you do is evaluate the players you think will be coming out. Then… — Tom Thibodeau Copy Share Image
You run the floor. Kick the ball out, repost, keep moving around, search it out, get to the offensive board. You've got… — Tom Thibodeau Copy Share Image
When you look at coaching in the pros 25-plus years, I have been with rebuilding teams and I have been with championship teams, and… — Tom Thibodeau Copy Share
There are no short cuts. If you want to do something special, there's a serious price to pay. There's no way around it. — Tom Thibodeau Copy Share
Passing and defense are two things that help build your team, brings the best out of people. — Tom Thibodeau Copy Share
When you look at what a coach does, it is leadership, it is communication, it is teaching, it is motivation. It really comes down… — Tom Thibodeau Copy Share
You can have a great season, but that doesn't necessarily mean you're great. To be great you have to do it year after year… — Tom Thibodeau Copy Share
The teams that win consistently, they put the work into it and they don't skip steps. — Tom Thibodeau Copy Share
You have to have core values. What do you believe in? Do you believe in hard work? Do you believe in discipline? Do you… — Tom Thibodeau Copy Share
I think I experienced it during the '90s that there's no better place to be than Madison Square Garden. — Tom Thibodeau Copy Share
There's obviously different roads you can go down. And I think if you study it, how teams are built - and I went through… — Tom Thibodeau Copy Share
In some cases where the team is mixed, there's almost two practices going on in one, where your young guys are getting the work… — Tom Thibodeau Copy Share
