Words matter. These are the best J. B. Bickerstaff Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
You can have old guys who aren’t willing to be coached just like you can have young guys who aren’t willing to be coached.
Any good defensive team has a strong anchor, because he cleans up mistakes.
It’s always fun when you get to go somewhere new and you get to meet new people and get new experiences.
I hope I continue to learn. If I don’t, then I know everything.
I’m always for constructive conversation, meaningful conversation, not just words, but conversation.
You don’t win without talent, but your talent has to have purpose.
It’s not the way you want to get a job, to see someone you admire and look up to and learned so much from get fired.
As an assistant coach, the wins and losses don’t tally up on your record, so you don’t necessarily have that to fall back on, so you have to find smaller games within the bigger picture to play in order to get your victories.
Every day, you learn something. That’s the same as assistant coach and the same as a head coach. You should continue to learn. You watch so much basketball, you should see something somewhere from somebody different all the time.
No matter what your job is, you know that you need to have a routine, that you need to be disciplined, you need to work.
My brother and I used to laugh and say, ‘Normal kids went to day care, and we went to the gym.’
I’m a big believer in communication.
It’s hard to argue with a coach who says, ‘I just want you to work.’ What can you say to that without making a fool of yourself?
If you look at the teams that mix and match their starting lineup a great deal, that sort of inconsistency frequently leads to inconsistency in performance.
Some guys, when they play with other elite players, they end up being too unselfish; or guys who are used to having the ball in their hands all the time, now they’re not as aggressive or as instinctive because they’re thinking too much out there.
Nothing is ever perfect in the NBA.
Small ball, spacing, shooting 3s, is something that everybody’s trying to do.
Conflict resolution, all those things, are important. When you’re in a group environment, you have to have those. If you don’t, things fester. Have the conversation. Resolve it. Move forward.
