Being the youngest, my siblings took great care of me and pushed me in all the right directions.

You never want to put yourself in a position where you can bring negativity to yourself or the organization and your teammates.

We have so much respect for European basketball.

Getting swept is hard.

It is always the great challenge when you have a good team and you have good players and you find a way to keep those players with you, then how do you add around the edges?

The really great players, I think embrace playing unselfishly and embrace playing in a system that ultimately kind of lifts up their teammates or their role players and guys who are around them.

I think people know how we feel about the international game and the European game and how we can learn from each other.

If we're competing and we're doing the daily fundamental things that we talk about every day, then everything will sort itself out.

John Collins has been a great offensive rebounder since jump street.

Lots of coaches like to draw up a play in a timeout and most, if not all of them, are drawn up against man-to-man type coverages and defenses.

I'm going to get better as a coach. Or at least I certainly hope to and plan to and need to work to, and have that as my mindset.

That's the great thing for coaches... we'll find more things where we can get better.

Not winning and those types of things are difficult. There is no doubt. You can't say they are not.

It's a tough job to be the owner in a rebuild, to be the GM, to be the coach. These are tough jobs.

It's just hard in our league to see somebody who has had that much sucess, that's done that well, that's that well-respected, not just among coaches but the whole basketball world has great respect for David Blatt. That's hard anytime you see a coach go when they make a change.

We should be shooting 3s whether we're 1-for-14 or 10-for-14.

When you watch great teams around the league, whenever they lose, you don't want to be the team that comes and plays them next.

There's no doubt that having some guys on the bench that have been through things, and that are older and experienced, understand not just the highs but the lows of losing a game. Winning and keeping a steadiness throughout a game, their voice in timeouts, it's really valuable.

If you're conscientious of where your team is, and the opportunities and what's available to them, I think you'd be naive - I don't think anyone would believe you - if you said that you weren't aware of it.

Guarding and defending is not easy.

As a coach, I've got to get better. I've got to improve.

As an assistant you have lots of ideas and suggestions that might be perfect for that moment and time, but you don't think through all of the ramifications down the road. As a head coach it's about being conscious of the whole group and what's best for us long term. And that's on and off the court.

The thing Pop did for me and did for a lot of coaches is - he let me coach. It seems really simple, and that's the beauty of being with Pop and being around Pop.

Pop is amazing about listening to everybody.

Organizations go through change.

Sometimes coaching is being hard on them, but there's a balance. I'm fine with the word nurturing. It's teaching in a positive way. You have to find what works for each group.

There is great effort to balance the short term with the long term. How are we trying to achieve sustained success? That includes success now.

Whoever has a great idea, it doesn't matter who it comes from. You just want to have as many good ideas as you can.

The way things were done in San Antonio gave me a great 19-year look into how you can have sustained success.

Any NBA coach, you just try to figure out what is best for your group.

No matter what the matchup is, you have to make it a good matchup.

As coaches, whether we're making personnel decisions or not, we're all critical of ourselves. We always want to get better. We push our players to do that. But nobody bats 1.000.

I always say you learn so much from the players.

Respect for your teammates is important to us.

I've got all these memories of guys just trying to get steals and not being very solid or very good defensively. They have all these steals so they must be a great defender. I usually find it to be the opposite.

For every team in the playoffs, their defensive intensity, their defensive attention to detail just becomes greater.

We always say the wine tastes a little better after a win.

I think days like Wiffle ball and other things that we do throughout the year to hopefully get guys to maybe take a breath and enjoy each other and enjoy this process and enjoy the season. I would argue that it helps you heighten your focus when it's needed. You never know; us coaches will try anything.

That's where your defense starts. If you are not good in transition, you probably aren't going to be good. Or you'll be taking it out of the net and playing a lot of offense.

We want, obviously, open, good threes. It's important to us.

Probably the No. 1 characteristic, if you want win championships, you've got to be great competitors. It's got to come naturally.

You have to stay disciplined from the start of the game to the end of the game, from the start of the possession to the end of the possession.

I think we usually err on the side of giving players a lot of confidence and freedom within the motion to make plays and make reads and make decisions.

I think going on the road for a couple games, I always feel it's better to go out for a couple games than just one game and come back. The out-and-backs, to me, are not my favorites.

There's no doubt Giannis, he just wants to work and work and work.

As the coach, you love having that great year and then you're just like, 'Oh man, are we going to be able to keep the group together?'

I think we've all seen it all throughout the league for lots of years: Keeping a good team together is really, really hard to do.

I would say we took a lot of pride in our player development program in Atlanta.

At the end of the day, winning is always rewarded.

If you can help players become better and you can help them win, I've found that they'll always listen and they'll always follow.