American - Coach | March 10, 1979 -
Let's face it, first-time assistant coaches normally don't walk into jobs with two perennial All-Stars on a team that just got bounced in the Western finals. Normally, they get a job in the middle of a year, playing for lottery balls.
J. B. Bickerstaff
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You don't win without talent, but your talent has to have purpose.
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My brother and I used to laugh and say, 'Normal kids went to day care, and we went to the gym.'
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I'm always for constructive conversation, meaningful conversation, not just words, but conversation.
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I'm a big believer in communication.
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As a coach, the more experience you have, the more you're around players, it helps so you see how guys learn, ways that are effective to reach different people. You see the aftermath of all the things that happened; you don't just see what happens at the game, you see what happens after the game, the followthrough, and those types of things.
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No matter what your job is, you know that you need to have a routine, that you need to be disciplined, you need to work.
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I watch a ton of movies. Going way back, I like 'The Godfather.' 'The Matrix' was one of my favorites - the first one; they got a little carried away after the first one. Those are two that stand out.
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Every day, you learn something. That's the same as assistant coach and the same as a head coach. You should continue to learn. You watch so much basketball, you should see something somewhere from somebody different all the time.
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I hope I continue to learn. If I don't, then I know everything.
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You go with what you got. That's the thing about having a system, then you plug guys into your system.
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Some guys, when they play with other elite players, they end up being too unselfish; or guys who are used to having the ball in their hands all the time, now they're not as aggressive or as instinctive because they're thinking too much out there.
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