Nick Nurse Quotes

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

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.

The league has changed in so many ways. There are no point guards anymore, there are no centers anymore; it's all positionless basketball.

What I always do is just look at the players, look at the best 11 they can put on the pitch.

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

I don't have the five positions anymore. It may be as simple as three positions now, where you're either a ball-handler, a wing or a big.

It's true that Coutinho played on the centre because sometimes Messi likes playing on the right side. If that happens, we have to readjust a bit.

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.

There's so much more you can do with four bodies in the rules of a tag team match than two guys in a singles match. It's just a completely different thing.

When we talk about Arsene Wenger, I like the fact that he focuses 80 percent about the style of play he wants for his team and not taking so much consideration into the other team.

I'm a guy that can stretch the floor, make plays in pick-and-roll, and then play off the ball as well.

It is not about the system, it is about how individuals perform on the pitch and whether they do the right things, so it is not as simple as just picking a system.

There's a lot of big guys who can play-make. We put labels like, 'Oh, he's a point guard, he's a center.' But sometimes your center can play-make for you and not just be the center, boxing out for rebounds and playing in the post.

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

When I see a game on the television, and you see afterwards 'possession percentage 60-40,' that doesn't say anything for me because it could be that one team is playing the ball between the back four 120 times.

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

Part of my job leading the line for Watford is to occupy centre-halves - by that I mean those battles with Huth, say, to try to win headers when the ball is played forward. But I also look to bring centre-halves out of position to the flanks and make space for my team-mates in the middle.

Cruyff defined a philosophy and a style of how we had to play: positional play, type of players, the profile of the coaches, even.

I know the importance of the number 10. In Brazil, the one who wears 10 constructs the attacks.

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?

A team like Golden State makes you change your lineup a little bit.

I'm not going to say the Dutch league is naive but they all play to win. In the Premier League, you have teams with a different idea.

Peter Moores has been very popular in the England dressing room. He's got a very good record of developing players but I felt that in some areas of international cricket he is a little bit exposed, around tactics and strategy.

It is possible to stop Messi. Teams do it when he plays for Argentina. But the Barcelona Messi is different.

In the 2015 World Cup, there was a drastic change in the move towards higher scores. Scores moved from 300 to 330 on average and that meant you had to change everyone's default mode.