When it comes down to playoff basketball, it's attention to detail.
I just try to make the right play, stay aggressive and defensively just do what I do. I make sure I talk to everyone and control the paint.
I think in Toronto my job was to score just based on the system that we had. We played a lot of iso basketball - a lot of one-on-one basketball.
I feel like I've had 20 years of experience at a very high level, if you throw in college, playing overseas, I've played in hundreds and hundreds of games.
When teams are crowded in the paint, it's very hard to get in there and penetrate, but you got to find ways to get into transition and get into your strengths. It's a lot of thinking out there, you got to make sure you think and strategize.
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.
I have an incredible amount of basketball knowledge, and I think a lot of that is derived from having a Hall of Fame college basketball coach who was very knowledgeable of the game and I had a great high school coach who was also very knowledgeable.
I'm not going to lie; listen, I'm nice at basketball.
You know, pass now to pinch post, cut, shoot the shot. Do things to facilitate the offense. That's what I did in Alabama.
For me, I'm still going to shoot the halfcourt shot if I can. I don't worry about my percentages too much. It's about winning games.
It's easy to draw up isolation basketball - it's not easy to draw up great motion offense with passing and cutting.
Defenses had to play us, obviously, out to the arc, but it was really, to me, my mid-range game that was probably more dangerous than my 3-point shot.
You can't just sit back and think you're gonna pack the paint in and win games. You've gotta guard that three-point line.
When I came into the NBA, coaches wanted you to shoot a midrange shot or two before you shot your 3 - you know, to get an 'easy one' first.
I do a lot of things to help my team winning - set screens, roll into the rim, finishing. I think I can be even more than that.
I learned so much from Sue about the Xs and Os of the game of basketball.
Knicks fans are the smartest in the world and they know you can't just play one end of the court.
Randy Wittman told me not to shoot 3-pointers. That got me very uncomfortable. There were certain labels tagged on me very early in my career, spots on the floor where I felt uncomfortable.
What I know is that if you're going to play half-court, you'd better have the greatest executioners of half-court basketball. If you run, you test the stamina and willpower of the other team. That's what I learned as a player.
We'll do anything it takes to win a basketball game.
The competitive spirit of basketball is slowly leaking out. Taking pride in one-on-one defense is slowly leaking out. It's more about selling calls and flopping.
A lot of guys can shoot two, three, four, five, six, seven, 10 feet behind the 3-point line. A lot of people can do it. It's just, when is it going to be considered a good shot? When are coaches going to encourage you to shoot that shot?
(The Hack-A-Shaq is) just a way of telling me that you can't stop me. Thank you. I appreciate it.
At Golden State, it was basically a guard-oriented offense and it wasn't either around me or in my direction.
Obviously I think offensively, spacing for me as a guy that puts a lot of pressure on the rim is going to make it harder on a defense. They're going to have to make tougher decisions, and space is going to be way more open for all the guards, too.
