I'm passionate about coaching.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

Giannis is such a great player.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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 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.

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.

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

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

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.