Kyle Lowry Quotes

At Kentucky, that was my job - coming off screens, catch and shoot, spacing the floor - no hesitations. Just go right into my shot - don't focus on the defender.

Isolation basketball will always be part of the game. But the system has to be predicated on ball movement and, more importantly, player movement.

My type of basketball is about how to create space, how to maneuver, how to get your shot off.

In football, time and space are the same thing.

You can't sit on a lead and run a few plays into the line and just kill the clock. You've got to throw the ball over the damn plate and five the other man his chance. That's why baseball is the greatest game of them all.

I had a vision of how basketball should be played. And the vision was the Knicks teams that won the championship in 1970 and 1973. I wanted a team that emphasized defense. I wanted a team that on offense had a system where players moved off the ball, and the ball moved.

It's tough to get wings deep post catches when you're playing with two bigs all the time.

The spacing is so much different in the NBA... There's more spacing, more 1-on-1. I got more space to do work - something I didn't get to show at Kentucky.

The value in having bigs that have the ability to shoot from the perimeter has increased and having bigs that have the defensive versatility to not only protect the rim, but to switch out and defend smaller guards, the value of that has also increased.

Without the hand check rule, players are more likely to work their way open.

When you are playing with a few players in the pocket, it doesn't leave me isolated. I have a bit more space to work and be higher up the pitch.

I think you always try to put the offense in the best position to make good plays, which usually requires us to move multiple people around and give them an opportunity to impact a game in a lot of different ways.

I think that's the type of game I'm better at - faster paced, just moving the ball more around.

Yes, sports are very often very boring, which is good and necessary: If games were one long highlight, we wouldn't have any highlights at all.

Basketball has turned into an offensive-minded situation. They don't play on both ends. They don't play defense.

Just seeing the progression, the evolution of the NBA game, I feel like you have a lot of big men shooting 3s.

Kyle Korver - got to treat him like J.J. Redick and not let him get good looks.

Small ball, spacing, shooting 3s, is something that everybody's trying to do.

At Golden State, it was basically a guard-oriented offense and it wasn't either around me or in my direction.

I've always been a guy that if you can shoot 3s, you need to shoot 3s. It extends the defense, especially when you've got a guy that can play an undersize 5 role.

You never know: there is a lot of movement in football. You can never predict where you're going to play.

There's so many different styles to it. I use my athletic ability to create shots for open people, I run the floor, then also space the floor as well. That's what I try to do.

I've played with a couple good shooters, but I've never been on a team where there's been three, four, five, six good shooters. And I've always thought that nothing gets you open more than being surrounded by good shooters.

When I get the ball, the players need to start running, and then I just feed them with the ball.

Time and time again, the players constantly surprise you and often not do at all what you expect and completely muck up your preparation, and that's kind of the beauty of the game. It wouldn't be as fun to the DM if everything worked out exactly how you thought it would.