Patrick Beverley Quotes

You should sub a player out when you see a player not going full-speed or playing selfish basketball.

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.

Anytime you get to play a team twice, you have a feel for what they do and how they play.

Whether we have the best individual players doesnt matter, you have to have the best team

If a player is trying to intimidate a skilled player on your team, what do we want? We want our skilled players playing, so we shouldn't be doing that.

In five years I have never had a match where my team has had less possession than the opponents.

I know one of my best qualities is to read the game for my players, is to read the opponent, is to identify every detail about the opponent.

It's always difficult to play the big teams, but I would rather play them at the start of the season.

We have to understand the abilities of the players. We will try to build a game model with our ideas and with the players we have.

In Italy, the coaches are very attentive to the details. They really study things, and that is a big difference here. They look at your movement, your positioning. They study you and work out how to stop you.

That's one of the things with a championship-caliber team, is how it deals with injuries.

I think public criticism of players can go one of two ways: either the players will want to raise a proverbial middle finger at their manager and prove them wrong, or the squad will go within themselves and performances will deteriorate.

In basketball, there are no trap games. If you walk out on that court and lose a game, it's because the other team beat you. You played poorly. But there's no trap game.

Teams that just play on one side of the floor are going to struggle against defenses that load up on that side.

To play for almost two months without your manager is not easy.

We have to talk about the players we have.

When we go out and play the teams that we need to beat that aren't near our level, then we've got to go out there and blow them out.

Ask any player. You're only as good as your coach allows you to be.

When I was a player, it was important to target the first few friendlies and plant a seed in the mind of the gaffer.

If you're not starting well and not taking the lead, then you're constantly putting pressure on yourself as a team.

As a playing group you don't go into the game thinking about whether you're the underdog or not.

If you look at the difference games between the bigger and smaller teams, the difference in concentration, and being passive is big; that is my opinion.

It is good to play strong teams.

If you don't have the best player in the world in the team, it would be strange if you didn't notice the difference.

In tournament cricket, with a new opponent each game, I think you actually need to play to your own strengths more.