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“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 college coaches.”

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If you don't control the ball, you're dead.

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I think the important thing for me is to just be able to have a voice.

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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.

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I never look at a clock. When the work's done, the work's done.

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Passing and defense are two things that help build your team, brings the best out of people.

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When you look at what a coach does, it is leadership, it is communication, it is teaching, it is motivation. It really comes down…

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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…

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The teams that win consistently, they put the work into it and they don't skip steps.

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You have to have core values. What do you believe in? Do you believe in hard work? Do you believe in discipline? Do you…

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I think I experienced it during the '90s that there's no better place to be than Madison Square Garden.

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