Nick Nurse Quotes

Nick Nurse

Profession : Coach

Birth : July 24, 1967

I think there's some certain attitudes and certain guys that can feed some positive energy, and that keeps you going through an 82-game schedule.

Nick Nurse

It's such a long season, right? It's certainly serious business, but it's no sense that we all have to be miserable doing it.

Nick Nurse

I think a lot of personnel decisions come down to who's the best player today, like if we had to throw 'em in a game today versus what could their upside be 18 months from now. A lot of times, those are two different answers. That's the difficulty of player personnel.

Nick Nurse

I think there's always enough right in front of me worrying about who's playing the minutes tomorrow, but you've always got to have an eye on a year or two from now and what those guys will do if you think, 'Well, let's give them a full year at the 905 and see how they progress.'

Nick Nurse

I'm getting older and mellower in my old age.

Nick Nurse

I understand there are bumps in the road. I understand there's a lot of noise that I don't want to listen to, and I just try to do my job to the best of my ability.

Nick Nurse

You're really in a bubble if you're not watching the league.

Nick Nurse

It shouldn't be two separate styles between the first and second unit as much.

Nick Nurse

People talk about offensive chemistry all the time, but defensive chemistry is something you have to build, too, and there's a lot of that work to be done with just communications and the feel of who certain guys play.

Nick Nurse

I think switching is like a lot of things. You can do it - it's a game plan - but you better do it well. You better practise it.

Nick Nurse

I want to see given extra effort, pulling for your teammates: those are the kinds of things we're shooting for and we're going for because that's what we need.

Nick Nurse

I think it's all machismo - 'Come on, you've got to guard your guy, man. If you can't guard your guy, then you can't play defence.' A lot of it is accountability, where you say, 'Hey, you're matched up with him. Go do your job.' The zone kind of sometimes moves a lot of pieces around.

Nick Nurse

I think we're always chasing a win once the ball goes up.

Nick Nurse

I just want us to be playing our best basketball here when the playoffs start, and in the right mindset.

Nick Nurse

Chemistry kind of builds all season. It's not like we say, 'OK, it's game one, and now we've got our chemistry.' I think it shifts and moves all season long.

Nick Nurse

Obviously, things evolve; teams see you play a little bit and start try to do things, and the one thing that'll happen is if one team has success in something, you can bet the next three teams are doing some similar things, too.

Nick Nurse

I just think there are so many more good, talented players.

Nick Nurse

You look at any roster and you say, 'Geez, he's pretty good. He's pretty good. He's talented. He comes off the bench?' All of a sudden, it's, 'Geez, that's a pretty good roster they got right there.'

Nick Nurse

Why are people afraid to try something different? Because of the scrutiny they're going to receive if it doesn't work. That stops people from trying things different a lot.

Nick Nurse

The game's evolving quickly, man, and somebody's gotta be trying some new stuff.

Nick Nurse