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I grew up dreaming about being an Olympic basketball player: Doug Collins getting smashed into the stanchion, making two free throws. Phil Ford and Mike O'Koren in 1976. - Jeff Van Gundy
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I don't ever remember wanting to do anything but coach. My dad obviously influenced me. But it wasn't because he sat there and drilled coaching stuff into our heads. We were on the bench keeping the scorebook and traveling with the team on weekends. It was such a great upbringing. - Jeff Van Gundy
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If you are going to call out your teammates, you have to call out yourself, too. You can't just separate yourself from the rest, because if you are going to get 90 percent of the credit when you win, you have to be willing to take 90 percent of the blame when you lose. - Jeff Van Gundy
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Everyone wants to focus on what Ben Simmons can't do, which is shoot and try to rush him into being a range shooter. I think Simmons in Philadelphia has done a good job in focusing what he does great versus what he doesn't do as well. - Jeff Van Gundy
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I think everyone talks about talent. It's really one of the most overused terms. It comes down to, do you play, and do you win? Talent is one factor, but certainly not the only one. - Jeff Van Gundy
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The best player's responsibility is to unite and inspire your teammates to play up to their full maximum ability, and that never occurs if you try to separate yourself as part of the problem. - Jeff Van Gundy
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There's always been conflict, inherent conflict between players and coaches. - Jeff Van Gundy
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I love listening to Coach Belichick's press conferences: even though they may not be what the media wants, they're great coaching, teaching tools. - Jeff Van Gundy
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I think fans oftentimes get an inferior product on back-to-back games, and I think that has to be the number one thing that gets addressed for the fans and for the players - the elimination or the drastic reduction of back-to-back games. - Jeff Van Gundy
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At first, you can play into the naivete that people think you have because you don't dress well. They almost give you the benefit of the doubt. But when success comes, that's no longer a good angle, so now you're 'a political animal.' - Jeff Van Gundy
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In one era, it's hard enough to compare people. But comparing people of different eras... that's next to impossible. - Jeff Van Gundy
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I love Joe Ingles. I think Joe Ingles is a tremendous glue player, terrific shooter, passer, defender. - Jeff Van Gundy
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I think there are much bigger differences between players in this league than between coaches. There is a big gap between LeBron James and the small forward for whoever. Far bigger than between two coaches. - Jeff Van Gundy
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You start comparing people, and ultimately, somebody feels diminished. - Jeff Van Gundy
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As great of a player as Yao was, he was kind and patient with everybody. He wasn't trying to feed an image or cultivate a brand or manipulate a public persona. - Jeff Van Gundy
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I read somewhere that failure is an event, not a person, but I never feel that way. It's who I am. - Jeff Van Gundy
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Are you playing for your teammates and coaches? That's how it should be. - Jeff Van Gundy
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Detroit Pistons basketball slogan: When the going gets tough, we fire the coach. - Jeff Van Gundy
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Most elite big men are high maintenance. - Jeff Van Gundy
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Phil Jackson was a brilliant basketball coach, not just because of the offense that he employed, but it was so many other things that went into it. - Jeff Van Gundy
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All the fascination with numbers conspires to make you forget the beauty of the game sometimes. - Jeff Van Gundy
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I frankly think the NBA All-Star game has run its course, the whole dunk contest... The game - if those guys actually played hard in that game, it'd be the best watch ever. - Jeff Van Gundy
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My intensity is my greatest strength. It's also my greatest weakness. - Jeff Van Gundy
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The triangle itself is just an offense based on freedom of the ball to go to different places, everybody feeling involved. It's a good thing. - Jeff Van Gundy
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Systems are overrated; players are underrated. - Jeff Van Gundy
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Every team has leadership. The leadership is the best players. But there's positive leadership, and there's negative leadership. - Jeff Van Gundy
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To be successful in anything, you have to have a passion for it, and that leads to being enthusiastic and demanding. I didn't have it for history. So I wouldn't have been a good teacher in that area. But I had it for basketball. And that's what coaching is at every level: it's about teaching. - Jeff Van Gundy
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