Notes

2009-12-08T09:29:19.000-08:00December 08 2009, at 09:29 AM PST, MARTEZ KIRKLAND said:

1. "A basketball team is like the five fingers on your hand. If you can get them all together, you have a fist. That's how I want you to play."

2. "Each group and each youngster is different. As a leader or coach, you get to know what they need."

3. "Even though we want huge individual egos, our collective ego is unbelievable."

4. "Everybody wants to take responsibility when you win, but when you fail, all these fingers are pointing."

5. "First of all, what happens is, when you're good at something, you spend a lot of time with it. People identify you with that sport, so it becomes part of your identity."