Robert Parish Quotes

I think there's a lot that goes into an offense, obviously.

Everyone does things differently on offense. Everyone's goal is to score points.

I don't love playing zone all the time, because it does have an effect on your offense.

Teams that just play on one side of the floor are going to struggle against defenses that load up on that side.

I'm still going to have to go out and score, but defensively hopefully I can make them a little bit better.

Golden State was basically a guard-oriented offense so I didn't use it that much.

It starts the fast-break a lot easier when I get the ball. I don't have to wait for big men to give me it. Just get it and go.

The triangle offense is more for slashers and people who like to take the ball to the basket.

If you have one guy taking all of the shots, you're obviously not playing very fast, because you have to slow it down and wait for him to get to his spot in the offense. But when you just want the best shot possible, a lot of different people are going to get the ball.

I'm a big believer in your offensive limitations come from your quarterback.

Not a majority of the offense is run for me to post. I'm fine with that, but I want to play better on the offensive end.

As a player I was taught the importance of working four or five passes within your team and then stretching the play. That's something I believe in strongly as a coach.

You're a pick-and-pop guy sometimes. You can get rolling with what the defense gives you.

I think there are different kinds of quarterbacks, and if you look at any offense, there are different kind of quarterbacks, but you play to the strengths of whoever the quarterback is for the team.

One thing I know is if I have my best player, I'm not going to let another team take him out of the game so I can throw to somebody else. I'm going to find a way to get my best player involved so they can't take him away.

Regardless of what you do, or who you have, at the end of the day you have to be able to execute better than the defense does in order to score points.

I think the thing with our team is during the postseason, our best games that we've played during the postseason, we strung at-bats together. It's not necessarily going up there trying to hit a home run, but it's trying to put up a good at-bat for the next guy.

I'm always open. As soon as I cross the half-court line, I'm open.

When you put pressure on the paint, you not only score but you force the whole defense to collapse and you can make easy plays to hit shooters.

To be a great player and a great scorer, you have to find ways to get yourself open and get shots off. It's a dog fight.

We're going to try to tailor our offense to our player's ability.

You know, pass now to pinch post, cut, shoot the shot. Do things to facilitate the offense. That's what I did in Alabama.

It's easy to draw up isolation basketball - it's not easy to draw up great motion offense with passing and cutting.

It's always good to have players who can help us in attack.

It's a mystery coming out each and every game to try and figure out how a team is going to guard me and how I'm going to dictate how my team wins.