Oscar Robertson Quotes

I'm still going to have to go out and score, but defensively hopefully I can make them a little bit better.

Everyone does things differently on offense. Everyone's goal is to score points.

We have what we call a dictator offense. We dictate to defenses by making them do what we want them to do. And we do it by creating formations.

I don't love playing zone all the time, because it does have an effect on your offense.

You got to know what the defense looks for and use that against them.

Regardless of what you do, or who you have, at the end of the day you have to be able to execute better than the defense does in order to score points.

I have to make sure that we're in the right plays and I can get the ball out quickly and get into our playmakers' hands.

It's a mystery coming out each and every game to try and figure out how a team is going to guard me and how I'm going to dictate how my team wins.

Ultimately, the yards really don't matter. So you have to score enough points, and I have been fortunate in my career to have been around some really good play callers, starting with Gary Kubiak and then going with Kyle Shanahan and Sean McVay, and that was always at the forefront of our minds: How can we create explosive plays?

I have the mind-set that a guard can't stick me. So I watch the bigs and see how they like to play. If you're a shot blocker, then I jump into you. If you take charges, then I pull up for the midrange.

Whoever I'm playing against, I go in and try to stop their best scorer and try to get myself going on the offensive end.

At Golden State, it was basically a guard-oriented offense and it wasn't either around me or in my direction.

I need to work on timing and the pace of the game. I need to know when to slow it down and speed it up.

Most of the time, you're just trying to be the point guard out there based on the play call and the defense that you're getting; that really dictates where the football goes.

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

I'm just trying to take what the defense gives me.

It's all about being sharp and not taking too much damage. That's always the game plan.

I need to play smarter and protect the football.

There are some games where I will look to be more aggressive and score more, and then there are games that I want to be more of a playmaker.

Any time you can get the ball back to the offense and they put points on the board, you can win games.

This is football, so you need to be clever to understand the moment and win games.

I think that my offense comes from what I do with my defense.

I've played against Aguero a couple of times. He starts behind you so he's always offside, but you don't know where he is. You look behind to the right and he'll go to your left. He's so tough to find. You've got to learn and work out how to stop them.

The bottom line is we need to score points, and we need to score a lot of them.

Scouting is important. You just want to know whom you are playing against and how to play them well within the team's defense.