Billy Donovan Quotes

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Billy Donovan

Profession : Coach

Birth : May 30, 1965

Obviously Carmelo is a great scorer. He's done it for a really, really long period of time.

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It was very interesting, when I went on the road and started recruiting college and I spoke to coaches around the country, of how little coaching assistant coaches in college did actually do. The head coach did everything.

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I've always been a big believer of ball movement and player movement, trying to create situations where five people can be involved.

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I think you're always in the NBA dealing with different roster changes and those kind of things.

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I think a lot of times for frontcourt players in the NBA, a lot of times guys are dominant because of their size and strength.

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I coached against Nick Collison when he was at Kansas, and he was a dominant low-post player. Really good. And Kansas ran all that high-low action, and Collison just posted up, and he beat people up. He couldn't do that in the NBA, so he had to reinvent himself.

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I always say this: having Chris Paul, having Russell Westbrook, Paul George, the ball at the end of the game finds those guys.

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I always believe that every player has a right in recruiting to do whatever they feel is best for themselves.

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What happens in pressure situations is most teams revert back to your habits.

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That's what you've got to be able to do is create good shots.

Billy Donovan

If someone throws a life raft out there, you have to actually swim to it. You can't say bring it to me.

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College would be better off if they adopted some of the NBA stuff, in my opinion.

Billy Donovan

That's what I really believe in, ball movement, player movement, extra pass.

Billy Donovan

Everybody's journey is a little bit different.

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Over 72 games, you are going to have games where, 'Gosh, I wish we could have had that one back. That was one where we let slip away.' Or, 'We just didn't play to the level we needed to.'

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What drove me nuts was the cold-calling.

Billy Donovan

I coached Udonis Haslem for four years in college. And probably for a good portion of his college career, he was one of the most dominant low-post players in college basketball.

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Most teams defensively are designed to try to make teams take two-point shots, challenged two-point shots.

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I wouldn't be standing where I am today without coach Pitino, the investment he made in my life, the values and things that he taught me.

Billy Donovan

I've always spent time talking to a lot of NBA coaches, and I've always said this: There's certain things that work in the NBA that don't work in college. And there's certain things in college that don't work in the NBA.

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