Nick Nurse Quotes

Nick Nurse

Profession : Coach

Birth : July 24, 1967

At some point in your life, you try to self-reflect and ask yourself, 'Why do I want to win so bad?'

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I loved every job I had.

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People asked me, 'Why aren't you doing something more important?' When I was doing well in the D-League, they were like, 'Why can't you get an NBA job? Or a college job?' I don't think people thought much of what I was doing. That's fine. I was learning. Not just X's and O's, but team dynamics.

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Don't let people take you ahead of where you are at.

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My job is to coach the team and get them to try to play the best they can come April, May, and June.

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I believe in getting the ball up the floor and trying to take advantage of transition opportunities.

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We want to always play with pace on offence.

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I've known Adrian Griffin for quite awhile now and always had him as my 'when I get a job, I want to hire him if he isn't already a head coach and I can get him' list.

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Phil Handy played for me in England and has obviously risen to stardom in his area of what he does.

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One of my favorite things about the D-League was going on the road and losing and not having to talk to anyone after the game.

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Fifty-nine or 54 or 52 or 49 wins isn't going to mean a whole lot. What's going to mean a whole lot to me, our organization, and our fans is how we perform in the playoffs and how deep a run we can make, and that's what we're setting our sights on.

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In the regular season, they all only count for one win or one loss. But for a team or coaching staff, these are tests, and you want to see where you're at.

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I've always been like that: after a loss, I go home and pass out and don't give it another thought. When I'm winning, I'm too excited.

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I like to have an attacking style on both ends.

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I place a lot of value on pace of the game, going after people... always be the aggressor and forcing the issue a little bit when we have the ball, and when we don't have it, we want to come at you, too.

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For every philosophical idea about how we're going to do things, there has to be a plan to get there, and we have to be able to execute it, first in practice and then in games.

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I think if you're going to be a little bit innovative or risk-taking, sometimes you're going to be wrong, and it's going to look bad. I understand that.

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That's your worry as a head coach: Are you going to go in there, give them everything you've got, and are they going to respond?

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I know, when I'm walking out on the court before for the game, it's like, man, if you wanna compete, here it is. It's coming. That's something I really enjoy.

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