Michael Carter-Williams Quotes

When I was in the second unit, it just took me time to find my rhythm just playing with a lot of new guys. But once I got in the starting lineup, it kind of just opened up a little bit.

It's never a straightforward thing to do, to be able to inherit a squad. When you're mid-season it's never easy to get a team or a squad of players to function exactly the way you want them to.

But it's been a learning experience; learning the NBA, learning the travel schedule and certain coaches, their styles, what they like to run out of timeouts, personnel, tendencies.

Maybe sometimes it can take a player a bit longer to get comfortable and to get to know everyone and exactly what he needs to do.

Every player needs time to settle in and to get used to a new club, from knowing the league to the other players - everything.

Obviously when you join a team everything is new and you have to get to know the people and how they operate.

As a coach, you have to play to how your team is built.

When I was with the Bulls, I was very dysfunctional.

It's always important with a young one in your team that he needs to be comfortable in the position he plays.

A coach needs time to get to know the players, the environment, the fans and the culture of the club. You can't solve everything in one or two months.

Any new coach takes about six months to adjust to the system, and players also need time to understand his methods.

The team evolves over time, and players need replacing.

Every player needs a little time to adjust to new teammates and the mentality of the coach when you change clubs.

In my career, I played for four different teams in a lot of different systems, and it's like learning another language.

I was endorsed by many corporations to work with their people. Since I had several hundred successful case histories, I realized that it was really valuable and everybody should have access to the information, so I started teaching seminars to groups of people.

When I had people scratchin' my shorts a bit, it played better. We lost a bit of that in all the personnel changes and it's an element we need to get back.

There is still a big onus to be coached. I understand the best teams don't need a huge amount of coaching, but that's when a coach should decide not to do coaching.

The Leadership Training Institute of America is a cultural think tank providing training and opportunity in leadership development and cultural dynamics.

I know it will take a little time to adapt to a different team and a different league.

If the coach is good, I don't think a psychologist is needed.

The reason I became a manager was to have full control over training. If you are a coach, you are bound by what the manager wants you to coach. The other reason is that I just like the company of football people.

Sometimes when you get on a new movie you kind of how to figure out the way other people work and it can be like being the new kid in high school where you're just trying to find out where your place is on the movie or on the set.

I always feel like if you have a smaller crew, you can not only get to know the individual strengths of people more specifically, but then, you also give them a longer runway to be able to apply the knowledge that they have learned to subsequent work.

I'm interested in coaching.

Coaches who have been players in the league, they get so attuned to playing how they were successful and who their coaches were.