If you have the right kind of guys who are pushing each other and at the same time supporting each other, it's pretty cool.

I literally remember going in my backyard and my dad teaching me Paul Westphal moves.

Things happen. Things change. It's part of life.

My dad was a huge influence on me. He taught me how to play and a lot about the game. He was very passionate and intense. As I started coaching, he wanted to tell me about all of the presses and man-to-man coverages and big philosophical things.

The great Chicago teams when Tex Winter and Phil Jackson were there - the triangle was just amazing. I know Michael Jordan was great, but everybody touched the ball, everybody cut, everybody moved. It was just so hard to guard.

I think individually, Al Horford is very special, very unique. He's a guy that can kind of be the backbone of the defense.

The only social rule you recognized in high school was that Mormon girls don't date non-Mormons.

The dream or the goal was to play in college. That was exclusively my focus.

Sometimes the things that are most successful are very, very simple.

I would have never ever dreamed of my career playing out the way it did.

I remember as a really young child, watching his energy on the sideline and watching him get excited, his body movement, the way he reacted. It's fun to hear other people tell stories about my dad and the things he did in games and the way he'd get upset with officials.

I love what my dad taught me and modeled for me - not just with coaching but as a husband, as a father, as a teacher, as someone in our community that cared and worked to make things better. I watched my dad and learned a lot about a lot of things, not just basketball.

My father, he's meant so much to me. He's always on me to be thankful and humble to everyone who's helped me and helped the team be successful. There were many things that he said and preached throughout my life that are now part of my mindset. It's a big part of who I am.

It's not easy to go out and win and compete and play against the best teams, the best players in the league, and we take that very seriously.

I think that coming to work every day and what we try and do and accomplish, there's a seriousness to it.

Giannis is such a great player.

I can tell you, those video guys are truly trained to see the spacing, the timing, how offenses progress, what are teams doing defensively.

There's an attention to detail that you learn in the video room that, I don't want to say you can't get anywhere else, but it's a huge part of their foundation.

We talk a lot about having high-character guys and high-IQ guys, and I think that's one of the characteristics of those types of people or players that if and when something doesn't go their way, their reaction usually is to come back and fight harder, dig deeper, do more.

The health and well-being of our players are a critical component of our ability to succeed.

When you make that transition to being a head coach, there's so much more you have to think of and consider. You're constantly thinking, 'How does this impact our culture? How does this impact us two, three steps down the road?' It's thinking big picture, and all of those things come with time. It's a great challenge.

On a lot of teams that bottom guy, that weakside defender, is critical if something happens and you're broken down off the dribble or you're beat. That person has got to be there.

I'm very appreciative of Atlanta. I love living here. I love coaching here.

I'm passionate about coaching.

I love coaching.

There are so many pick and rolls in an NBA game. It's so hard to guard.

My mom, raising seven children, was such a steady and firm influence. You did not mess around with my mom. Nobody in the neighborhood or whole town did. She had that steadiness and firmness but love at the same time.

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.