Nick Nurse Quotes

Nick Nurse

Profession : Coach

Birth : July 24, 1967

I was getting a degree in accounting, and I was going to go off and account. And as it worked out, I haven't accounted for anything since.

Nick Nurse

Iowa is always home for me.

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I think I'm always a little bit under construction. I'm a project that I'm trying to improve upon.

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I'm a guy that, when there's something rolling out there, the predetermined rotations might go right in the garbage can.

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That's playoff basketball. Can you not get too happy after a win? Can you understand how determined the team is going to be after a loss and bring the energy you need to bring?

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Esthetically, let's move the ball. Let's guard people. Let's fight.

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I still say, to this day, I could not guard Nigel Lloyd.

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I used to say, as an assistant, I would go in and close my door for three hours after practice and just watch film. Now it seems like I'm in a meeting and then another and then another for three hours that have nothing to do with basketball. It's just different.

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We've got to be innovative. We've got to think about what's coming next.

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I think the game in general is changing so fast right before our eyes.

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If you ask what my philosophy is, my philosophy is kind of like an entrepreneurial philosophy.

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An entrepreneur will do whatever they have to do to make sure things get done. Our coaches will be that way; our players will be that way. Just do what it takes.

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It's really an organizational job with a football team to watch them go through their day.

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Football is a pretty complex numbering system most of the time: run the three back through the four hole, things like that. We kind of do the same thing - the three man sets for the four, or whatever.

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We are trying to get away from those traditional centre, power forward type things.

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It used to be every single time you got the rebound, you handed it to the point guard, or you outlet it to the point guard, or everyone cleared, and you waited until the point guard brought the ball up the floor.

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I'm gonna back my players.

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I don't mind physicality in the least - I don't mind it in the least, both ends of the floor.

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As an assistant, you are grinding it out and churning out work like there are not enough hours in the day, really. As a head coach, you are doing similar.

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Sometimes I'm in that timeout, and I say, 'Let's go a possession of zone,' and they're like, 'Yeah, let's do it,' and that shows that they're confident enough to roll with whatever we're doing. And sometimes they're like, 'No, no, no, no.' They don't want a possession to get away from them, possibly.

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