Most of the places I came from, you gotta do a lot of gunslinging or coaching by the seat of your pants.

Football is a pretty complex numbering system most of the time: run the three back through the four hole, things like that. We kind of do the same thing - the three man sets for the four, or whatever.

Sometimes, I don't enjoy the wins, and I don't enjoy the losses, but I'm here just to get the result and get moving.

I've coached a lot of teams and moved up gradually and tried to succeed and tried to have success at every level. When that happens, you just continue to wonder if you can keep doing it one more level.

Iowa is always home for me.

I always say we're chasing perfection in an imperfect game.

It shouldn't be two separate styles between the first and second unit as much.

I like to have an attacking style on both ends.

I just want to keep getting better. People used to ask me - when I was winning in the D-League - why I wasn't in the NBA, and I'd tell them, 'I just want to learn and get better.' I figured it'd happen one day, and if it didn't, I really enjoyed my time coaching anyways.

I think the game in general is changing so fast right before our eyes.

I was getting a degree in accounting, and I was going to go off and account. And as it worked out, I haven't accounted for anything since.

Long time ago, we used to sit around eating popcorn and drawing up plays.

We've got to be innovative. We've got to think about what's coming next.

An entrepreneur will do whatever they have to do to make sure things get done. Our coaches will be that way; our players will be that way. Just do what it takes.

I just think there are so many more good, talented players.

I think I jumped the gun a bit on head coaching. I got named a head coach at 23, and I really didn't know what I was doing. I remember getting that job and going, 'Oh my God, they gave me the job.'

I'm a guy that, when there's something rolling out there, the predetermined rotations might go right in the garbage can.

People asked me, 'Why aren't you doing something more important?' When I was doing well in the D-League, they were like, 'Why can't you get an NBA job? Or a college job?' I don't think people thought much of what I was doing. That's fine. I was learning. Not just X's and O's, but team dynamics.

Chemistry kind of builds all season. It's not like we say, 'OK, it's game one, and now we've got our chemistry.' I think it shifts and moves all season long.

Predictability can eventually be defended.

We are trying to get away from those traditional centre, power forward type things.

I loved every job I had.

If you ask what my philosophy is, my philosophy is kind of like an entrepreneurial philosophy.

I think there's always enough right in front of me worrying about who's playing the minutes tomorrow, but you've always got to have an eye on a year or two from now and what those guys will do if you think, 'Well, let's give them a full year at the 905 and see how they progress.'

I don't mind physicality in the least - I don't mind it in the least, both ends of the floor.

You're really in a bubble if you're not watching the league.

I want to see given extra effort, pulling for your teammates: those are the kinds of things we're shooting for and we're going for because that's what we need.

I just want us to be playing our best basketball here when the playoffs start, and in the right mindset.

You look at any roster and you say, 'Geez, he's pretty good. He's pretty good. He's talented. He comes off the bench?' All of a sudden, it's, 'Geez, that's a pretty good roster they got right there.'

Esthetically, let's move the ball. Let's guard people. Let's fight.

I was in love with the triangle because it was so different to what everybody was doing in the NBA. Everybody else was dribbling down, throwing it into the low post, and then their guy would go to work. To me, it was boring.

I don't think when I decided I didn't want to be an accountant any more that I was necessarily saying I wanted to be an NBA head coach. I just really wanted to figure out if I could do it.

I know, when I'm walking out on the court before for the game, it's like, man, if you wanna compete, here it is. It's coming. That's something I really enjoy.

I used to say, as an assistant, I would go in and close my door for three hours after practice and just watch film. Now it seems like I'm in a meeting and then another and then another for three hours that have nothing to do with basketball. It's just different.

In the regular season, they all only count for one win or one loss. But for a team or coaching staff, these are tests, and you want to see where you're at.

I've known Adrian Griffin for quite awhile now and always had him as my 'when I get a job, I want to hire him if he isn't already a head coach and I can get him' list.

My goal early in becoming a head coach so young was to find out if I could do it. I just wanted to see if I could be a good head coach and then start learning from head coaching.

My job is to coach the team and get them to try to play the best they can come April, May, and June.

The gym in Milton Keynes or wooden backboards at Chester - maybe it didn't feel that glamorous at the time, but it was fun.

I think we're always chasing a win once the ball goes up.

They do not eat Yorkshire pudding on Sunday in Iowa.

I said it when I got hired. I said, for five years, I had a 1,000 people telling me I was going to be a head coach in the NBA. And when I got the job, those same 1,000 people were shocked.

It's pretty draining, the amount of games I watch on a daily basis. It's pretty much non-stop.

Phil Handy played for me in England and has obviously risen to stardom in his area of what he does.

I think it's really important that we get an experienced staff. Guys that have been a head coach, to me, at some level is important to me. I value head coaching just because it's good to know what it's like to be the decision maker.

In a game, I'm locked in. I maybe notice three rows in the stands the arena over, and that's it.

It used to be every single time you got the rebound, you handed it to the point guard, or you outlet it to the point guard, or everyone cleared, and you waited until the point guard brought the ball up the floor.

I'm gonna back my players.

Sometimes I'm in that timeout, and I say, 'Let's go a possession of zone,' and they're like, 'Yeah, let's do it,' and that shows that they're confident enough to roll with whatever we're doing. And sometimes they're like, 'No, no, no, no.' They don't want a possession to get away from them, possibly.

I think there's some certain attitudes and certain guys that can feed some positive energy, and that keeps you going through an 82-game schedule.