Del Harris Quotations

In the past, we spent about 60 percent of our time on the court on defense. Now, we're more 50-50. It saves some of your energy and legs for defense.

It's a hard pill for D.J. to swallow because that's his job to try to block shots. He just tried to block a shot and missed.

Nobody can guard Kobe one-on-one. Nobody.

It is not overwhelmingly difficult for a committed group of players with only average individual basketball skills to put together a very good team defense.

There has never been a great 'silent' defense

Everybody says he didn't win a championship as a coach, but look at everybody who's in the Hall who doesn't have a ring. My key point is that none of the teams he's coached were good enough to win the whole thing. But did he get the most out of them that you could? Yes.

He's close to being a volume shooter. As I see his game . . . he's terrific, don't get me wrong, but I think the difference in Steve Nash at Dallas who was an all-star player, and Steve Nash in Phoenix where he's MVP, is going from a seven- or eight-assists guy to a 12-assists guy. That's the little subtle change that I think he could make. If I had the skills of T.J. Ford, I wouldn't be satisfied with six assists.

A lot of people think when you have a long home stand that the pressure is off of you. But the truth is that the pressure is really on you to defend that home court.

I didn't make the cut. Clearly, Avery didn't do his homework and check out what kind of shooter I was in college.

I thought Chris had a good game because he had 11 assists, but sometimes Chris can get 11 assists and still get you 20 points. So I thought our guards ... did a nice job with him.