When you look at coaching in the pros 25-plus years, I have been with rebuilding teams and I have been with championship teams, and so I know all the steps in-between.
When you look at the last 20 years in the NBA, there have been seven teams that have won the NBA championship. Six of those seven teams drafted the number one or number two pick; their foundational people.
Coming from a player who has already been on two rebuilding teams and now in my third year on a rebuilding team, it's like, what more can I say of how tired I am?
I had been on a lot of losing teams. Always rebuilding.
I've been on teams that lost a hundred games in a season. I've been on teams that had a shot to make the playoffs and fizzled out at the end.
When you look at the best teams, the teams that make a run at it, they're the healthiest teams.
Normally the teams that are in the NFC and AFC championship games are the teams that are going to be right there in the forefront as the season begins.
Progress in Iraq has always been about teams of people and teams of teams - and ultimately about young men and women, Iraqi as well as people from the coalition.
I've been on extremely talented teams that just don't click, and I've also been on team with a little bit less talent, but they clicked, and because they clicked, they did better than other talented teams I've been on.
I think players look around and they look at the teams that they'd like to join and it's usually teams that already have good players on those teams.
I've seen teams and I've been on teams where, when adversity hits you, you kind of crumble.
When you play teams that are good defensively and teams that have been there with experience, the object is to keep the goals against down.
I think people fail to realize that teams and organizations have been stacking teams since way back in the day.
I've been fortunate over the years to have been on good teams and as a result I've been able to score some goals but I wouldn't say I'm great at it.
I know how teams work. I've been doing this for 30 years.
I have been in many teams that have had loads of talent but did not make it through and been with teams that did not have that much talent and ended up being champions.
A lot of teams have won one state championship, but not many teams can say they went back-to-back.