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“I just want us to be playing our best basketball here when the playoffs start, and in the right mindset.” quote by Nick Nurse — Download Open image

“I just want us to be playing our best basketball here when the playoffs start, and in the right mindset.”

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Predictability can eventually be defended.

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I still say, to this day, I could not guard Nigel Lloyd.

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I'm gonna back my players.

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I think there's some certain attitudes and certain guys that can feed some positive energy, and that keeps you going through an 82-game schedule.

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I've got way more attention than I ever needed or wanted.

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I think there's always enough right in front of me worrying about who's playing the minutes tomorrow, but you've always got to have an…

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Well, you can certainly teach free-throwing. And you can teach the boys to pass at angles and run in curves. - University of Kansas Jayhawks head coach Phog Allen, reposting the contention of his Kansas predecessor and inventor of basketball James Naismith, pictured, that basketball could not be coached When I dunk, I put something on it. I want the…

Practice to beat the best.

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