Phil Jackson Shooting Quotations

Obviously when the threes aren't going it's time to stop shooting them. We kept going to it and got desperate at the end trying to hit home runs. We can't do that.

Poor decisions and free throw shooting haunted us. I was disappointed in our ball control.

When he's shooting well, I encourage him. We're trying to measure personal achievement with team goals.

We couldn't overcome a tough shooting game for Kobe. They threw an extra man at him, and we didn't make good adjustments. Offensively, I don't think we grasped the concepts of what we are trying to do here.

You have to give that team some credit. Three-point shooting is not an easy task.

They're shooting almost 40 percent. That in itself is remarkable, unheard of. It converts to a lot of points. And to have to recycle our team to find a way to match up against them is not easy. It's not conventional.

It was a good practice session, but then we started tailing-off, just as most players do during exhibition games and we started shooting more instead of executing.