Mike Budenholzer Quotes

Mike Budenholzer

Profession : Coach

Birth : December 29, 1964

Respect for your teammates is important to us.

Mike Budenholzer

I've got all these memories of guys just trying to get steals and not being very solid or very good defensively. They have all these steals so they must be a great defender. I usually find it to be the opposite.

Mike Budenholzer

For every team in the playoffs, their defensive intensity, their defensive attention to detail just becomes greater.

Mike Budenholzer

If you are just focused on the end result, you are probably going to have a frustrating year. But if you embrace on what you go through every day and how you work every day, there's a lot that can be taken from that.

Mike Budenholzer

We always say the wine tastes a little better after a win.

Mike Budenholzer

That's where your defense starts. If you are not good in transition, you probably aren't going to be good. Or you'll be taking it out of the net and playing a lot of offense.

Mike Budenholzer

We want, obviously, open, good threes. It's important to us.

Mike Budenholzer

It always starts with having great competitors on your team, in your front office, on your coaching staff.

Mike Budenholzer

Probably the No. 1 characteristic, if you want win championships, you've got to be great competitors. It's got to come naturally.

Mike Budenholzer

You have to stay disciplined from the start of the game to the end of the game, from the start of the possession to the end of the possession.

Mike Budenholzer

I think we usually err on the side of giving players a lot of confidence and freedom within the motion to make plays and make reads and make decisions.

Mike Budenholzer

It's part of, I guess, one of the harder parts about coaching is you have to make some tough decisions.

Mike Budenholzer

I think going on the road for a couple games, I always feel it's better to go out for a couple games than just one game and come back. The out-and-backs, to me, are not my favorites.

Mike Budenholzer

There's no doubt Giannis, he just wants to work and work and work.

Mike Budenholzer

As the coach, you love having that great year and then you're just like, 'Oh man, are we going to be able to keep the group together?'

Mike Budenholzer

I think we've all seen it all throughout the league for lots of years: Keeping a good team together is really, really hard to do.

Mike Budenholzer

I would say we took a lot of pride in our player development program in Atlanta.

Mike Budenholzer

If you can help players become better and you can help them win, I've found that they'll always listen and they'll always follow.

Mike Budenholzer