Kelvin Sampson Quotes

When you go through the youth system you're always going in to do analysis work, looking at every way of improving and your coaches are always on top of you.

As a young player, you need a lot of playing time to evolve.

There are a lot of young players here right now, and these guys are going to eventually learn as they go. Next year we can't use that as an excuse that we had so many young players on the team.

I sit on the bench, and I watch even my teammates swing, so you can learn from them when they make a bad swing or good swing. I like to watch from the rookie to the veteran player, and that way you can see the difference and learn something from them.

I had some definite weaknesses my rookie year that I had to work on and hopefully I've gotten better at those.

As more we play cricket, the more players will learn from it.

I've trained under a lot of coaches and always picked up elements that develop a player.

I like making players better and smarter.

Every time you come out of the team I know you don't just disappear, you don't just become a bad player overnight.

I think just by the nature of getting older, I hope that I'm a smarter basketball player than I was at 23.

For a lot of guys in this league, it's confidence - once they play a year or two, they start to figure it out.

That's what the great teams do. That's where, if you're a good shooter, become a great one. If you're a good ballhandler, become a great one.

I have tried to convince the players that if we work on certain things in training, they will happen in games and we will score goals from them.

Every player develops over time, as does every team and every opponent.

If you can make the players better, that's what I'm about.

Sometimes the Knicks just need to be the Knicks. And not the New York Knicks. What I mean by that is that they're New York's team and everybody is going to be focused on that. But they should learn to pace themselves, set goals and be patient with what they're doing.

Giannis is truly a student of the game. He listens to the coaches, they show him film, and he's always in the gym working on his game and trying to find ways to get better.

I want to train with whoever is the best.

Leipzig made me a better player.

It's not enough to buy good players, one has to develop a team.

In Germany, young players are given more time, more patience. In England, they prefer to buy already-high-level players rather than spending some time building up a really talented young guy.

Most coaches' attention to detail is very good; it's their job. They have to analyse teams, and they have to analyse their own team.

You know how things go in football. Seasons are long, and you have to see how things progress.

You're all over the place usually with young players. You're trying to manage their emotions and teach them NBA situations. It usually takes months, even years, to learn and recognize NBA situations and then to develop a level of competitiveness that's necessary at this level.

When you have an older group of players, they play on automatic pilot a lot of the time, but with youngsters, you have more intuition.