A Quote by John Starks
You look at the assistant coaches under [Pat Riley] that played and they have become prosperous within this game. It triples all the way down from the assistant players to the coaches. Patrick Ewing went into coaching as well as myself.
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You can't have assistant coaches who aren't loyal - but you can learn a lot from your assistant coaches.
One thing that the coaching staff and the assistant coaches did a really good job of working me on was shaping myself into an NBA guard.
Assistant coaches become a little bit more buddies to the players than a head coach.
I've lost count of all my assistant coaches who have been made head coaches.
The relationships that I've built and the connections and the network that I have created playing on these multiple teams, playing for these multiple coaches and assistant coaches - I wouldn't give that back for anything, because I believe that's going to prepare me for my next step, whether that's going to be on the floor coaching or in an office doing some type of management work.
Coach Noll is quite demanding all the time. He expects a lot from both his players and assistant coaches because that is the only way he knows how to get the job done.
I think it's hard for one coach to do all the formats all the time, and there are a limited number of coaches who have done the hard yards already. You can have head and assistant coaches for each squad.
When I came into the NBA, to be around Patrick Ewing and Derek Harper and Doc Rivers and Charles Oakley and Pat Riley and Jeff Van Gundy every day had a huge effect on me.
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I've been with some great head coaches, but also some great assistant coaches, too.
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