Isiah Lord Thomas III Quotes

Isiah Lord Thomas III (29)

Birth:	30th April, 1961
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Basketball Player

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• You’re always at war with the guy on the other bench. You pick up their patterns. That’s what I got the most out of this year. I know what other coaches like to do.

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• You have to develop your whole game to completion.

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• We were going to have to experiment, and we needed to develop our younger players. And a lot of the changes were because of injuries. But that’s where I give a lot of credit to the group in terms of being able to maintain things.

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• We decided to go the way of trading and getting younger players.

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• We decided to either try trades or just go with older players. If you do that and let contracts expire you can be in the lottery for about four or five years and expect your fans to be patient.

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• The type of athletes we draft still need types of versatility on the defense side of the ball, run the offense. You should still be concerned on the offense side of the ball.

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• The biggest difference is in the leadership. It was better for us. We had more coaches and mentors to help us. A lot of the younger players today suffer from a lack of direction.

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• My thought has always been completion. Maybe you have to rebound better, shoot better, hit free throws, handle the ball, defend better. You have to do all those things in the course of a game.

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• My greatest gift that I have in life is basketball.

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• My first choice was to work it out with Larry Brown. I needed Larry and I gave him 50 million bucks. This is a situation that I’m in and I’ll handle it and I’ll make it work.

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• Most players in this league say they want consistency.

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• Larry Brown thought Steve Francis was a Larry Brown type of player.

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• It’s hard to get people to overcome the thought that they have to take care of themselves first. It’s hard to get players to give in to the group and become selfless as opposed to selfish.

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• It’s been made clear to all of us that a player should never leave the playing field and go into the stands.

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• It wasn’t about the X’s and the O’s and the strategy; it was more about keeping 12 guys focused and committed to a task. That group dynamic, and then helping them to grow as people and basketball players.

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• It was important to me to believe, because if I don’t believe, how can I expect them to believe?

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• Instead of me telling them what they need to work on, I wanted to hear from them what they needed to work on.

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• If all I’m remembered for is being a good basketball player, then I’ve done a bad job with the rest of my life.

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• I’ve been in pressure situations before. All my life it’s been about pressure and having to get it done. Just because you say it publicly, it does not make me afraid of it or make me shy away from it.

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• I’ve always believed no matter how many shots I miss, I’m going to make the next one.

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