It starts the fast-break a lot easier when I get the ball. I don't have to wait for big men to give me it. Just get it and go.
One-on-one is different than actually going through picks, hitting the floor, playing 5-on-5, getting back in transition, making quick moves without thinking about it.
You have to make shots to win basketball games and we didn't do that. You also have to get back on defense, so it was a double-whammy.
I like to get out in transition. That is one of my favorite aspects of the game.
When you're in the playoffs, you have to get easy baskets and you have to limit their easy baskets.
All the coaches preach about defense. Every day they talk about defense, they talk about how important it is to get stops in order to win basketball games.
That's what I do - I run the floor, I run the wing. Either get easy layups or transition threes.
Running in transition and scoring in transition, prevents you from setting your defense up on the other side.
When we get bad shots, it's hard to rebound and it's also harder to come back in transition defense.
When you've got so many guys that can score the ball, you really don't want to get down and defend. You really don't want to get down and dive for balls. You really don't want to fight through screens every play.
Four-men aren't used to picking up guys pushing the ball in transition. Let alone, somebody getting the rebound and just busting.
In the game of basketball, I play first off because I love it. I love to have fun. I love to run up and down the court.
Any time you can get easy baskets, it's a big deal.
I coach defending an awful lot but I don't think too many teams in the Premier League or in the world of football actually coach defending anymore, certainly not the full-backs.
I believe in getting the ball up the floor and trying to take advantage of transition opportunities.
When you've got guys touching the ball on the offensive end, they're really into the defensive end.
Being able to hedge on a ball screen and the guy coming off and being able to guard him for a brief second and then go back and block a shot in one possessions, that's big. There's not many dudes that can do that.
I think in Phoenix Phoenix is like the run and gun team. We used to do a drill where we'd try to score in the first seven seconds. We used to do that in practice.
Small ball, spacing, shooting 3s, is something that everybody's trying to do.
