Isiah Lord Thomas III Quotes

• I believe in the players and what I’ve put together and we’ll make it work.

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  Tags in Together

• I can’t think of any NBA team over the last few years that lost three starters. And we replaced them basically with three guys who really haven’t played in this league.

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  Tags in Lost, Team, Last

• I would still like to get more athletic and have players that can really cover what’s going on in the game.

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  Tags in Game, Players, Cover

• I’ll continue to try to make changes to better improve the team.

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  Tags in Try, Team, Change

• All of those things had been talked about, suggested, rumored, as a manager and as a member of the Knicks organization, I couldn’t allow myself to think that way or believe that.

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  Tags in Manager, Member

• How can I tell the eighth or ninth man on the team that I want you to work hard every day and I want you to improve and get better, but while you’re doing that you’re not going to get any minutes?

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  Tags in Hard, Team

• Everybody wants to be perfect.

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  Tags in Perfect, Everybody

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

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  Tags in Matter, Next

• I want to see if the player communicates with his teammates and how he responds to coaching. Another thing to remember is players’ bodies can develop better than their skills.

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  Tags in Remember, Player

• 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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  Tags in Good, Bad

• 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 love what I’m doing.

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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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  Tags in Basketball, Group, Grow

• 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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  Tags in Game, Thought, Free

• 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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  Tags in Wanted

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

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  Tags in Important, Expect

• 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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  Tags in Leave, Playing

• Most players in this league say they want consistency.

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  Tags in Players, League

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

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  Tags in Thought, Player

• 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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  Tags in Care, Hard

Isiah Lord Thomas III (29)

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

About

Isiah Lord Thomas III was born in Chicago, Illinois. He is a retired American basketball player who played professionally for the Detroit Pistons in the National Basketball Association. The 12-time NBA All-Star was named one of the 50 Greatest Players in NBA History and was inducted into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame. He has also been a professional and collegiate head coach, a basketball executive, and a broadcaster.

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