109 Quotes by Tom Thibodeau

The way you execute in this league is through repetition, and that's both offensively and defensively.

And when you study the NBA, you realize and know that the NBA is never staying the same. It's always evolving, it's always changing.

Nothing great was ever achieved without great work and great effort. It's really that simple.

When you get the second defender on the ball, their responsibility is to get rid of it, to make plays for their teammates.

I think that when you sort of look at what's gone on where players are familiar with each other - it starts in high school with AAU. When they get to the pros there's All-Star Games, they share agents and then there's Team U.S.A. stuff. They build relationships.

As you prepare for the draft, the first thing you do is evaluate the players you think will be coming out. Then you explore the possibility of either moving up or moving back.

Being opportunistic is important.

Normally a summer league is a dry run for training camp, gives the guys an idea what training camp looks like, and then summer league, you're not really playing against NBA rotation type players, so not a good example of the talent level you'll be facing, but the fall practices give you a good head start.

Sometimes as players achieve more and more and get further down the line in their careers, they tend to skip over the work part.