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“Put your two best players away from the ball and bring it back to them.”

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“Only run special plays for special players; find plays that fit your players.”

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“Play off your great player... great teams have a go-to player and they play off of him.”

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Author:Don Meyer

“Can your player make a curl cut and score in the lane? If so, he is the cutter.”

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Author:Don Meyer

“We have a simple rule for switching. Anytime there is movement over the top of a screen, there has to be an automatic switch. If a blind pick is set on one of our defensive players, there has to be a switch. To play good pressure defense, you have to use the switch.”

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Author:Ralph Miller

“When covering the man with the ball, the defense should be able to touch the ball with his hand. He should assume this touching position as the ball is being received. When the ball is received, the defense should discourage the pass into the post area. The hands should be kept up. Keeping the hands up reduces a tendency to foul and allows a player to move his hands quickly.”

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Author:Ralph Miller

“Regard your team as a family. Give the same attention to the bottom guy as you do the top guy. You have a responsibility to all of your players.”

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Author:Pete Newell

“The more you lose, the more positive you have to become. When you're winning, you can ride players harder because their self-esteem is high. If you are losing and you try to be tough, you're asking for dissension.”

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Author:Rick Pitino

“Our offensive philosophy is to simply find a way to get the ball into the hands of our team's best player.”

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Author:Kelvin Sampson

“Deep down, your players must know you care about them. This is the most important thing. I could never get away with what I do if the players feel I didn't care for them. They know, in the long run, I'm in their corner.”

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Author:Bo Schembechler

“To be successful you need to have good, happy Players.”

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Author:Norm Sloan

“Help your players to control their emotions - do this through example.”

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Author:Norm Sloan

“I would rather have a player who has mastered two or three moves than to try to teach him six or seven.”

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Author:Norm Sloan

“Practices should be for the players and not the coach. Practices should be fun for the players, positive in nature, and last no more than two hours.”

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Author:Norm Sloan

“In going for the last shot of the game most people wait too long to take the shot. Give yourself a chance to get the first shot and tap the ball in. Your players are normally inside the defense.”

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Author:Norm Sloan

“The more your players have to think on the basketball court, the slower their feet get.”

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Author:Jerry Tarkanian

“The secret is to have eight great players and four others who will cheer like crazy.”

“Players will never do more than you demand.”

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Author:Jimmy Tillette

“The more honor and self-respect among players, the greater the team.”

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Author:Frosty Westering

“I continually stress to my players that all I expect from them at practice and in the games is their maximum effort.”

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Author:John Wooden

“Good players can take coaching; great players can take coaching and learn.”

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Author:John Wooden

“I do not want players who do not have a keen desire to win and do not play hard and aggressively to accomplish that objective.”

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Author:John Wooden

“We may not be the best conditioned team in the country, but our players think they are.”

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Author:John Wooden

“The team is the star, never an individual player.”

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Author:John Wooden

“The greatest ally you have to get things working well and the players performing as a team is the bench. Don't be afraid to use it, either for the star player or anyone else.”

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Author:John Wooden

“I never let our players get satisfied, I never let our Coaches get satisfied, I was never satisfied. We can always do it better.”

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Author:John Wooden

“Players know how to dribble, shoot and pass. The challenge is to teach them why they should do it a certain way, and when they should do it.”

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Author:Marv Harshman

“I've always considered myself a crunch-time player. I just love having the ball in my hands. Everyone in the arena knows the ball is supposed to be in your hands and you still make it. It's the odds. I love the odds.”

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Author:Reggie Miller

“Teams that play together beat those with superior players who play more as individuals.”

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Author:Jack Ramsay

“Winning teams at the NBA level, the college level, and the high school level all play team basketball. Championship teams have five players on the same page at all times.”

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Author:Hubie Brown

“We should not have to push you to work hard, you should work hard because you want to be a great player.”

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Author:Bobby Knight

“The most important quality I look for in a player is accountability. You've got to be accountable for who you are. It's too easy to blame things on someone else.”

“A player who makes a team great is better than a great player.”

“I know the Virginia players are smart because you need a 1500 SAT to get in. I have to drop bread crumbs to get our players to and from class”

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Author:George Raveling

“It's hard for young players to see the big picture. They just see three or four years down the road.”

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Author:Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

“I would tell players to relax and never think about what's at stake. Just think about the basketball game. If you start to think about who is going to win the championship, you've lost your focus.”

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Author:Michael Jordan

“Part of the charm of basketball lies in the fact that it's a simple game to understand. Players race up and down a fairly small area indoors and stuff the ball into a ring with Madonna's dress hanging on it.”

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“On how to make the game more exciting - Eliminate the referees, raise the basket four feet, double the size of the basketball, limit the height of the players to 5 feet 9 inches, bring back the centre jump, allow taxi drivers in for free and allow the players to carry guns.”

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Author:Al McGuire

“Mick Jagger is in better shape than far too many NBA players. It's up in the air whether the same can be said of Keith Richards.”

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Author:Bill Walton

“But people don't know if I can teach the game. I know I can. My experience in Oklahoma was positive. It opened my eyes to how the game is played - the interaction among players, fans and media, how all that works. You have to know about the business of the game and how the actions of players and coaches affect the business. I think I have it down now.”

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Author:Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

“He doesn't necessarily have to learn the sky hook. He just has to learn how to be an effective post player. I think I can help him do that.”

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Author:Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

“All the courage and competitiveness of Jackie Robinson affects me to this day. If I patterned my life after anyone it was him, not because he was the first black baseball player in the majors but because he was a hero.”

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Author:Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

“The guy said NBA players are one in a million, ... I said, 'Man, look, I'm going to be that one in a million.”

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Author:Kobe Bryant

“A lot of times things get blown out of proportion in a negative light, especially in the NBA, ... But there are a lot of players in the NBA who really care about the community and want to use their basketball-playing ability for a good cause.”

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Author:Kobe Bryant

“Everywhere I've been, I've been the best player. I love being a leader, and I love being the best. I just want to get better. It's not about being cocky or selfish or anything like that. It's just how I am.”

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Author:LeBron James

“It's hard to win in the league, because every team is good, they got players on their team. A lot harder than high school. It's competitive, and that's what I most love about it.”

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Author:LeBron James

“He's very knowledgeable. That's the one advantage that I see in Kobe Bryant's career compared to Michael Jordan. Ten years into Kobe Bryant's career, we're seeing a very polished 27-year-old player who's probably got another seven or eight great years ahead of him.”

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Author:Scottie Pippen

“It's going to be great. A lot of the players are coming. I wasn't here when they put (Jackson) up in the rafters. But to have him here as my number goes up, it brings back a lot of great memories.”

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Author:Scottie Pippen

“As far as carrying the torch for the years to come, I don't know. I just want to be the best basketball player I can be.”

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Author:Kobe Bryant

“The goal is to make practice more difficult, physically/mentally, than anything your players will face during a game.”

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Author:Bobby Knight

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