Quotes from Doc:
On Back to back with Indy
“It’s a brutal game. When you’re looking at the schedule the first thing you look at is 4 and 5 and what we call 8 and 7’s. 8 and 7’s are an 8:00 night and then a 7:00 night the next night. Its the first thing as a coach you look at. And you hate those 8 and 7’s because its tough. 8 usually means tv game which actually means a longer game, and then you get on the plane and go wherever you have to go and then you play 7 the next night in less than 24 hours, long flight- it’s just a difficult one.”
“I told the story- the sleep dep guy, I had him look at the schedule last year and said ‘show me a game that you think will be difficult to win’ and he pointed at the Indiana game, and he said ‘I dont know if you won or not’ cause when you look at him he has a bowtie on and you know he doesnt know anything about basketball but he said ‘i dont know if you won or not but I guarantee you didnt play well’ and he was right.”
Getting young guys to buy into team (Hawks)
“Selling everyday, because it’s difficult. It’s as difficult as anything in our league when you have more than one or two or three young guys to get them to buy into their roles because theyre more interested for the most part in being stars and they don’t want a role. They want to show you what their role is rather than you tell them what it is. So I dont think that process of the sell ever stops. You have to convince them that thats their role to success, and I think Woody [Hawks Coach Mike Woodson] has done that.
On Lebron changing jersey #:
“He said he was going to wear #6, hell, that number should be retired.”
Topic: Hawks (6-2) at Celtics (8-1) 11/13 (Read 66066 times)