Gerald Green Quotes

I always thought the objective of basketball was to get the maximum amount of movement to get the easiest shot, closest to the basket. With the three-point rule, the whole strategy changes, and you make a move and then throw it 30 feet out, where somebody takes a standing jump shot.

I know from watching other players that they have great games by getting to the line and getting to the rim.

You're going to play me different if I have the ball, even if I'm at 75, 80 percent, just for the simple fact that you do not want me to make that three. That's helping my team out.

In every game, there's three teams out there. There's the two basketball teams and the team of officials. If the two teams are evenly matched, it can come down to number of possessions. If one out-of-bounds call goes the wrong way, that can be the difference.

You don't cut anywhere, don't pick down anywhere, don't double screen, no weak side picking. All these things that should happen in a game of basketball don't happen anymore.

We got guys who can score. Everybody knows guys can score.

LeBron is a great post-up player, but if you get him to settle for the jumper on some nights, you might be able to slow him down if his shot is off.

I think I can help push the tempo just a little bit... I feel I can get the ball after a rebound. Push the fastbreak. Push the tempo. Get guys some easy shots.

I just try to make the right play, stay aggressive and defensively just do what I do. I make sure I talk to everyone and control the paint.

Some games I'm going to get more blocks or they're going to do more mistakes and give up more baskets but some games I get zero blocks and I affect 20 shots.

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

If you've got a big man who scores the ball, you've got to defend, and if you've got a shooter, you've got to pick and choose who you're going to defend.

If you give him a 3-point shot, you might as well count it. I'd rather have Steph Curry beat me 14 points and 14 assists than let him get 40. Because his 40 is just so loud. And it's because of those 3s.

When you're in the playoffs, you have to get easy baskets and you have to limit their easy baskets.

The contention is if you don't do it in the first quarter, if you don't box out and control the glass in the first quarter, you are not going to do it in the fourth quarter and overtime.

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

Guard some point guards, late shot clock, hopefully they miss.

Depending on the point in the game and what's necessary, if you can deliver the play, whatever that is - heck, if it's a screen - and you get a guy open, and he scores a big basket for you, that gives me as much of a charge as anything.

When you're a scorer, you are thinking about scoring, and everything comes easy.

In Atlanta, we ran a motion offense, so, obviously, I was on the move a lot.

I think, for me, I'm making the right plays and finding my teammates if I'm not open and finishing strong around the rim.

You can't just sit back and think you're gonna pack the paint in and win games. You've gotta guard that three-point line.

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

I think that I can get into the paint anytime I want to. What I have learned is that when I do get into the paint, I do have options.

I'm not gonna try to force to look for threes, but if the three is open, I'm gonna shoot it.