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Shoot a lower score than everybody else.
Keep all your balls in the air.
Stop by stop by stop. Play aggressively. Sprint back on 'D' and pay attention to how we're supposed to guard as a team
Offense sells tickets, defense wins games, rebounding wins championships.
In basketball, I always had a first step. A separation step. That works now, too.
Just like I'm the king on the microphone, so is Dr. J and Moses Malone
I like slam dunks, take me to the hoop my favorite play is the alley-oop
I like the pick-and-roll, I like the give-and-go
Cause it's basketball, uh, Mister Kurtis Blow.
In the NBA, there is a guy guarding you, and you really have to try shooting over him.
It's like all guys want to do is make a dunk, grab their shirt and yell out and scream - they could be down 30 points but that's what they do. Okay, so you made a dunk. Get back down the floor on defense!
I can't palm a basketball.
The one thing I do that nobody else does is jump three and four times for one rebound.
Shooting is a lost art, but nobody wants to see nobody shoot all day. You want to see somebody break somebody off the dribble. That's today game, and that's what I try to do.
Basketball Rule #9
When the game is on
the line,
don't fear.
Grab the ball.
Take it
to the hoop.
Play fast, play smart, play aggressive, bring energy!
My first dunk ever was in middle school. We were playing, me and my church friends, and I dunked it, and I swear I could not sleep that night.
When it's played the way is supposed to be played, basketball happens in the air; flying, floating, elevated above the floor, levitating the way oppressed peoples of this earth imagine themselves in their dreams.
To win the big games you must get to the Free Throw line, and then you must make them.
You have got to shoot, otherwise you can't score.
My best move is probably my pull up jump shot.
No bounce, no play.
Basketball is a sport that involves the subtle interweaving of players at full speed to the point where they are thinking and moving as one.
Most lay-ups and two foot jump shots around the goal are missed by not putting the ball up high enough on the backboard
Good basketball always starts with good defense!
Find your speed, maintain your velocity, keep it up, keep it consistent, and stay in the pocket.
There's a shot up the alley. Oh, it's just foul.
On the best tactic when playing alongside Kareem Abdul-Jabbar- Just give him the ball.
Larry Bird just throws the ball in the air and God moves the basket underneath it.
Dunk the lunk, thick as a castle wall.
Have the WNBA lower the hoops. Because even though layups get the job done, they're lame. Seriously, layups look the way Woody Allen talks. Wimpy as fuck.
You don't win a game by hitting the ball out of the court.
I haven't dunked since Bill Clinton was in office, so I'm just happy for anyone who can do so without a trampoline.
To be a great player or a good player in the NBA, I have to work on my perimeter game.
My first dunk was actually in sixth grade.
The great thing about basketball is it's a live ball. If someone's in your way, push them out of the way, go around them or over them, whatever it takes.
If Anthony Johnson ever gets a jumper, who's going to stop him?
Basketball isn't a game; It's an art form. You master the fundamentals so you can forget 'em, so you can improvise and just concentrate on what really matters: getting buckets.
Basketball is a game of sacrificing yourself for the next guy, being a team that takes good shots, and taking the right shots
Hit the ball carrier harder than he hits you.
We've got to play better basketball.
Basketball is sharing.
Stay in the game and stay alive.
Boys have a tendency to jump around a lot more than girls. Boys have that desire to want to dunk way more than girls do. It just never seemed like something we could truly fathom and do.
The man above has given me some unbelievable abilities to play the game of basketball. I just try to take advantage of it every night. I got the trust of my teammates and my coaching staff to go in there and let it go.
Don't squat with your spurs on.
If you can walk with your head in the clouds and keep your feet on the ground, you can make a million dollars in the NBA.
He dribbled noise.
I try to be the best I can be at what I can do, and that's playing hard & rebounding.
Players know how to dribble, shoot and pass. The challenge is to teach them why they should do it a certain way, and when they should do it.
The two ingredients in success in basketball are playing hard and playing intelligently.
I shoot, I score. He shoots, I score.
Great shooters are one dribble guys.
Suddenly all is quiet. The other nine players? They're all moving in slow motion! I'm at normal speed! I know where everyone's going even before they know themselves. The basket is huge, maybe six feet across! How can I miss? It's like throwing a rock into a pond.
You have to do everything to help your team out. I have the ability to rebound, so I might as well go and do it to help my team win.
Rebounding wins championships, you need to emphasize it and work with kids on it.
Basketball, unlike football with its prescribed routes, is an improvisational game, similar to jazz. If someone drops a note, someone else must step into the vacuum and drive the beat that sustains the team.
I just try to keep rebounding the ball as much as I can. I just go out there and do what needs to be done and don't worry about my stats.
For us to be successful on defense, we must get back and stop the basketball, eliminate easy baskets, keep the ball out of the lane, and bother the shooters.
I haven't been able to slam-dunk the basketball for the past five years. Or, for the thirty-eight years before that, either.
I'm a playmaker, and I'm going to score. At the end of the day, my job is to put the ball in the basket.
A jump shot can get you a shoe deal, a big house, a supermodel, fancy cars, a bunch of yes men, a Swiss bank account. But none of these things can get you a jump shot
Ask me to play. I'll play. Ask me to shoot. I'll shoot. Ask me to pass. I'll pass. Ask me to steal, block out, sacrifice, lead, dominate. Anything. But it's not what you ask of me. It's what I ask of myself.
Basketball isn't just a sport. It is an art, one that must be mastered to succeed.
It takes 10 hands to score a basket
My players on defense must have a hand-up on every shot. If not, they run sprints.
Your contribution as a coach is defending and rebounding.
Stand tall, talk small, play ball
I had a moment like that with Wilt (Chamberlain). He knocked me out of bounds, I came back and faked him, came across the middle and dunked on him.
I always laugh when people ask me about rebounding techniques. I've got a technique. It's called just go get the damn ball.
I try to penetrate the lane like Steve Nash, pass like Jason Kidd, and handle the ball like Allen Iverson. Remember, I said 'try to'.
I play a lot of basketball.
Jean-Luc glanced at the coach. "Who is that man? What is that machine?"
"It's a dunking booth."
"Ah, I understand." Jean-Luc nodded. "If he dose not drown, then he is a witch"
"No, he's just a creep. It's a game.
As you keep shooting the ball, you become a better basketball player.
Even though, physically, I can't do it, the mind says, 'Yeah, I can still do it,' and I still think I can do it better than most in the NBA, ... Driven From Within.
I was shooting 45 times a game. What was I supposed to do? Pass it into Chris Mihm & Kwame Brown?
Coach wants me to shoot, and he tells me never to lose my aggressiveness. That's most important.
You see what happens in college and high school games today - a three-point shot or a dunk. I think that's the reason that you see a lot of that in the pros today.
My type of basketball is about how to create space, how to maneuver, how to get your shot off.
Be big, fast and flexible.
Leap...and the net will follow
Defense is one man guarding the ball and four others helping him
Shoot first and never miss.
You don't cut anywhere, don't pick down anywhere, don't double screen, no weak side picking. All these things that should happen in a game of basketball don't happen anymore.
I like basketball, but please don't ask me basketball questions because I've got a lot to learn.
You can't dribble on bow ties.
I don't know what I'm going to do tomorrow. I just know for sure I'm going to keep playing basketball.
I heave the basketball; I know it sails in a parabola, exhibiting perfect symmetry, which is interrupted by the basket. It's funny, but it is always interrupted by the basket.
I think that everyone should be able to dribble. Everyone should be able to pass. Otherwise, why are you out there?
I knew I was good because I was the only 14-year-old who could dunk backward.
Cross your ankles and do not move."
"Does shaking count?
Basketball is one of those rare opportunities where you can make a difference, not only for yourself, but for other people as well.
Obviously dunking on Horace Grant and Michael, in those circumstances, is just an incredible thing to happen. I'm happy I was able to make that play, and I'm fortunate I was in that position where I could make that happen for my team.
Drop onto all fours and crawl the length of the court or field, as if you were climbing a wall. This prepares you, too, for light cat burgling, should your athletic career flag.
Part of the charm of basketball lies in the fact that it's a simple game to understand. Players race up and down a fairly small area indoors and stuff the ball into a ring with Madonna's dress hanging on it.
I really wanted to go chunky-dunking tonight." Chunky-dunking is what Bella and her friends called skinny-dipping.
When I was young, I had to learn the fundamentals of basketball. You can have all the physical ability in the world, but you still have to know the fundamentals.
When I get a chance to power jump off both legs, I can lean, twist, change directions and decide whether to dunk the ball or pass it to an open man. In other words, I may be committed to the air, but I still have some control over it.
Don't do anything that isn't play
The people who know basketball, their elevators don't go to the top.
It's hard to play basketball when nothing is inside of you.
When we play the game like we're supposed to play it, it is pretty easy. Making the extra pass, making the simple play, it's not about between your legs, behind your back, and all of that, it's just about scoring the bucket.
A team like Golden State, when they get into a rhythm they make shots.