Gerald Green Quotes

A lot of teams get a lot of offense off the rush.

We want to always play with pace on offence.

When teams are crowded in the paint, it's very hard to get in there and penetrate, but you got to find ways to get into transition and get into your strengths. It's a lot of thinking out there, you got to make sure you think and strategize.

Any time you can get easy baskets, it's a big deal.

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

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.

I like to get out in transition. That is one of my favorite aspects of the game.

That's what I do - I run the floor, I run the wing. Either get easy layups or transition threes.

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

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.

Just because it's a break doesn't mean it has to be fast all the time. It can be a secondary break, but you've got to allow the defense to break down.

I believe in getting the ball up the floor and trying to take advantage of transition opportunities.

Running in transition and scoring in transition, prevents you from setting your defense up on the other side.

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

Maybe other managers would see their team score one goal and then prefer to go back and counter-attack, then try to score the second goal. A lot of those managers are the best managers at the moment, but for me, it's very important to continue the way I play.

The most important thing is to help the team to come in front of the goal with one-two passes, I drop down, or I give them space, because for defenders, it's always difficult to have a false nine because they don't have a direct player against them, so they don't know exactly what to do.

When we're able to get stops, get the ball off the glass and run, you never know who's going to get the ball. Everyone takes off, runs to their spots, and the ball just finds the open man.

With a line of six in the defence and then three in front of that, it's not always easy to find the spaces to score the goals.

As a defence, we have to strive for that clean sheet while also giving the attacking players the licence to go and create.

I don't want just pure roll out of the back four. I want productive mixed play... how many ways can you affect a game?

You never know from week to week how one team is going to attack you versus another team.

I love fast breaks, and I love playing full-court basketball, but offensively in the half court, I kind of take my time, let guys cut, and let the defense move. Then, if I have a move, I'll go. If not, I'll just hand it off to a teammate.

When you're running next to a guy who's about to lay it up in transition, you just get out of the way because you know Giannis is coming to block it.

To score goals, you need to receive the ball in advantageous positions.

Luis Enrique has a clear idea, and the team has understood it perfectly. He asks us to press high up the pitch, to counter quickly when the opposition attacks and try to maximise the space between the lines with the speed we have.