#layers

The biggest difference is in the leadership. It was better for us. We had more coaches and mentors to help us. A lot of the younger players today suffer from a lack of direction. ↗

— Isaiah Thomas

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I believe in the players and what I've put together and we'll make it work. ↗

— Isaiah Thomas

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I want to see if the player communicates with his teammates and how he responds to coaching. Another thing to remember is players' bodies can develop better than their skills. ↗

— Isaiah Thomas

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We decided to either try trades or just go with older players. If you do that and let contracts expire you can be in the lottery for about four or five years and expect your fans to be patient. ↗

— Isaiah Thomas

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We decided to go the way of trading and getting younger players. ↗

— Isaiah Thomas

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We were going to have to experiment, and we needed to develop our younger players. And a lot of the changes were because of injuries. But that's where I give a lot of credit to the group in terms of being able to maintain things. ↗

— Isaiah Thomas

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The one thing about players today is that they're very sensitive, and very fragile. They didn't grow up with tough coaches. ↗

— Doug Collins

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The denominational world tries to pressure its members to focus on the birth of Christ, but in doing so layers of guilt are imposed, and competition gets complicated as one Christmas program tries to outdo the other. ↗

— John Clayton

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I actually think some of the rappers can help our image, because the thing I'm concerned about is the NBA's image. I always want our image to be on the rise, and if the rappers can help young players get business-minded, then I'm all for it. ↗

— Antonio Davis

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When you coach as long as I did, you can't help but miss those Saturdays - dealing with the players, the game preparation, the challenges, the excitement. ↗

— Tom Osborne

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