Chuck Daly Quotes

Mike D'Antoni is a great offensive mind. He's a great coach.

It's a scary thing when a team don't know who to match up to, whose night it's going to be on the offensive end.

If you have a defensive concept, you're going to play defense. If you don't have a defensive concept, and you have an offensive concept, then you're going to play offense.

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.

Offensively, you do what you do best and you do it again and again. Defensively, you attack your opponent's strength.

Do passing drills that come from your offense.

The triangle is a foundation to an offense.

It's a big part of my game, attacking.

There's two facets of this game. You know, if I'm not making shots, OK, then I have to do something on defense. So if I'm missing shots or making shots, it doesn't affect my overall game.

That was part of coaching: to teach your receivers how to get free.

When I come off the ball screen, I'm always trying to draw another defender, so where I can get my teammates open, and if not, I can score the basketball.

I like the triangle. My first season, the whole first season, we played nothing but the triangle, so I know it pretty well.

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.

I know I have to be good on pick-and-rolls.

Defense doesn't matter enough.

We need to play tough defense and have a sound offense. But mostly, we have to outrebound the other team.

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

Basketball is basketball, so from a strategic standpoint, having a players' perspective is valuable.

The biggest pass for a defender is a pass forward.

I think there's a lot that goes into an offense, obviously.

You can never advance the ball on defense.

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.

Defense is what matters. Scoring doesn't interest me.

The basic premise of my system is to fatigue your opponents with constant pressure defensively and constant movement offensively.

You can play Dybala and Ronaldo; it just depends on the situations.