I've got to make some decisions just like any other player that has ever played this game, that eventually the clock stops, their basketball clock stops.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
If you run the ball, you control the clock. If you control the clock, you usually control the game.
You don't cut anywhere, don't pick down anywhere, don't double screen, no weak side picking. All these things that should happen in a game of basketball don't happen anymore.
Balance is so important. We all have to cut up our clock to find out what works for you. If you're ineffective, you're using bad clock management, and you have to adjust. Using a basketball reference, the team who wins is the team that can make adjustments in real time.
Ultimately, if you look at the game and there are two minutes left, and you have to ensure your victory, you don't want to throw the damn football. You want a runner who can run the clock out.
The game is never over. No matter what the scoreboard reads or what the referee says, it doesn't end when you come off the court.
I think when you're off the clock, you should be off the clock.
The NBA has the best point guards in the world, so it is important that I come ready to play every night.
I enjoy the last quarter of all basketball games.
A closing team is so important in the NBA. The last seven minutes is what you are always coaching to get to. Now you have your team set, you have the match-ups you want, you have your time-outs, your chance to finish the game, and that's my job, to get us to that position during the course of the game.
In baseball, you can't kill the clock. You've got to give the other man his chance. That's why this is the greatest game.