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It was important to me to believe, because if I don't believe, how can I expect them to believe?
~ Isaiah Thomas
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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.
~ Isaiah Thomas
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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.
~ Isaiah Thomas
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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.
~ Isaiah Thomas
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Larry Brown thought Steve Francis was a Larry Brown type of player.
~ Isaiah Thomas
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Most players in this league say they want consistency.
~ Isaiah Thomas
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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.
~ Isaiah Thomas
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My greatest gift that I have in life is basketball.
~ Isaiah Thomas
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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.
~ Isaiah Thomas
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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.
~ Isaiah Thomas
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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.
~ Isaiah Thomas
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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.
~ Isaiah Thomas
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We decided to go the way of trading and getting younger players.
~ Isaiah Thomas
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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.
~ Isaiah Thomas
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You have to develop your whole game to completion.
~ Isaiah Thomas
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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.
~ Isaiah Thomas
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Because in order to beat Jimmy, I had to get around the ball a little bit quicker so I wasn't always on defensive and catching the ball on last stride, that I had little more time. Once I was able to get little bit quicker, then it has helped me a lot.
~ Ivan Lendl
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But it's very difficult, I can tell you I played the Czech Open a few times and it's very difficult just to go on to a scene where the course is prepared differently when the greens are fast and he's not used to it and they're hard as a rock and he's not used to it.
~ Ivan Lendl
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But to be fair, if you take players from my era to now, the game has changed and the players have many more shots. They use them differently than we did. The speed of the game has changed.
~ Ivan Lendl
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I don't make a habit of watching tennis matches, but I try to watch all the major finals. I try to make time for that. So unless I have something going with the kids where I can't, I try to watch, and I enjoy that.
~ Ivan Lendl
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