Kenny Smith Quotes

The simplest way to win in the National Football League is to knock out the starting quarterback. You know, throughout the years, history has proven if your number one quarterback goes down, your chances for success become very limited.

My biggest concern for the Lakers - and they're going have to figure out a way to rectify this - is Lonzo Ball.

The point guards that I like are the ones that are playing like point guards.

Most teams won't really focus on one player because they've got multiple players to defend and that will open up a lot of things for me.

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.

If he's averaging 25 points and I can contain him to 17, then I've won the battle. If he averages 12 assists and I kept him to seven, I'm winning the game.

I can throw all the good passes I want, but if they don't make shots, it's not an assist.

Everything is up to the players and not the tactics. They're just small details that can show you the way to play.

Derrick Rose - he's had his opportunity. He's been an MVP in the league. His efficiency isn't what it used to be.

I had watched Magic my whole career, even before my career, and so I knew the style of player that he was, and I knew what I had to do to prohibit him from being as effective on the basketball court as he had been throughout his career.

As players, we only get opportunities when players get injured and you never want to see anyone get injured.

Good players win you games, good formations stop you losing them.

Offense is spacing and spacing is offense.

I think that to stop an offense, you must go to the heart of that offense. If it is a particular move, a screen, the break, an outstanding scorer, whatever it is that they like to do and rely on, you have to work in your plans on taking that completely or as much as possible away from them.

Everyone's system in the NBA makes sense. It all comes down to the quality of player and the quality of execution.

Running the triangle offense, you have pretty much set rotations where you are going to be at.

It's up to the manager where and how every player should play, but I think every player should be comfortable in that position.

Everybody makes a big deal about small ball. Well, I've guarded Anthony Davis every time I've played him, since he first came into the league.

You can have Guardiola as a manager, you can have Koeman as a manager, anybody as a manager, but the players inside the white lines win the game.

One of the things my dad and I got to bond over was going to the San Antonio Spurs games when Gervin was there, James Silas... I can't remember the rest of the guys' names, but it was a fun time.

In my first season after Mancini signed me, I was injured a lot, but when I was fit, he did play me.

When you talk about forming an offensive identity, it's about, first, let's figure out what our players do best.

You're not getting any recognition as a point guard if you ain't winning.

You could kind of guess if you bring in Peanut Tillman to the defensive team meeting - yeah, it's all about turnovers and getting after the ball.

I mean, the hardest thing to do, I think, in the NBA, is to put the ball in the hole.