Basketball Technique Quotes

I've modeled my game after Kevin Garnett and Tim Duncan.

I'd shoot zero percent before I'd shoot underhanded.

Be tough. As a big guy, it's what your teammates expect from you, to be strong. Set good screens offensively and box out at the other end. It's a simple technique. I learned it when I was little.

I'll see some random guy and really like how he's locking his wrist when he's shooting or how a guy is catching the ball. It can be a little reminder that that's something I have to think about today.

Everybody in the NBA works on their game. I just tried to follow that lead when I was in high school, college - and now.

Basketball was every day of my life. Wake up with a ball - sometimes I'd sleep with it because someone told me that was better for you.

To improve my free throws I went back to the mechanics and really learning how to have form and shoot the ball, so I have to get comfortable with that.

I've got a good, quick release.

I sit and wonder why no one uses the shot fake. The shot fake, when used correctly, can eliminate a defender

Yeah, D-Wade called me up last night and said that he saw some film of me in high school and thinks that my form then was better and that I should shoot like that. I told him I'd think about it and then my pops called and said something like that so I decided to revert back and then.

Foot work, hand-eye coordination. There's a lot of things. If you just watch basketball, you can tell where it would help someone who's receiving the ball.

I think it would've been a little easier if I grew up in America; they've got better conditions for basketball players. At the same time, many people have said to me that having to start playing so late helped me not pick up bad habits.

I was not a great ballhandler. I just worked very hard at it, and I got to be a good ballhandler-a competent ballhandler-but never a great ballhandler.

There is no such thing as a perfect basketball player, and I don't believe there is only one greatest player either.

If you played basketball growing up, you learn the importance of follow-through when you shoot: forming the gooseneck, waving good-bye to the ball, reaching into the far off hoop like it's a cookie jar - think Michael Jordan's last shot as a Bull.

I think by me playing inside-out, it's really been opening up that 3-point shot for me.

Like, I don't do drills at all. I think that's why a lot of people who handle the basketball, I think mine looks different. You know, 'cause I've never done a drill. I've never done 'get to a chair and go through your legs,' or 'get to a spot and a cone and go through your legs or behind your back.'

That's one of things I've heard about Brooklyn - how good they are at developing players.

I know how hard it is to shoot the basketball, so I've got great appreciation for it.

I haven't been able to slam-dunk the basketball for the past five years. Or, for the thirty-eight years before that, either.

My high school coach used to tell me there's no correct way to shoot, that the only correct way was to get the ball into the basket.