J. B. Bickerstaff Quotes

We are trying to get away from those traditional centre, power forward type things.

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'm more off ball, catch and go, spot-ups, cutting.

Basketball is a simple game. Your goal is penetration, get the ball close to the basket, and there are three ways to do that. Pass, dribble and offensive rebound.

One of my favorite aspects of basketball is good passing.

Street basketball is all about shakes and fakes, crossing your defender up. The NBA is more strategic.

I've been working on a lot of things, just knocking down the three consistently, making smarter moves off the pick-and-roll, improving my dribble a lot.

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.

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

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

When you move into becoming more of a shooting guard, you get more catch-and-shoot three's, lot of pin-downs and things like that where you shoot the three a lot more.

When you've got guys touching the ball on the offensive end, they're really into the defensive end.

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

Getting on fast-breaks, you don't do that when you let a team shoot 20 free throws in one quarter.

I can shoot the 3. I can play off the catch. I get offensive rebounds. And I still have a lot of energy left to defend.

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

Offense is spacing and spacing is offense.

If you ask the guys I played with when I was little, they'll all tell you the same thing. All I did was catch and shoot. I didn't do anything else.

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

In street ball, you really don't care about playing defense, unless it's some kind of flashy steal or a big block where you bat the ball across the court, but all you're really worried about is scoring.

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.

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.

I just got to be ready to knock down shots.

NBA's spacing's really helped. Teams gotta really respect my jumper.

I can shoot the basketball, I can get to the basket.