George Karl Quotes

Carmelo was incredible. It shows that when he makes his jump shot he's very difficult, if not impossible, to cover.

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This is our place, our house, our building. We let too many teams come in and do similar things (as Milwaukee did).

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I think a lot of our success comes when we played good defense, get deflections. We lacked a defensive consciousness on a consistent basis.

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I don't think I want Ruben to be controlled. I want Ruben to be angry and mad and play like a mad dog in the backyard. That's who he is. He's not going to be a polished player. He's not going to trick anybody. He's going to go out there and beat you.

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The man had a fantastic game, it's just a shame he didn't get rewarded with a win. His efficiency was great. I think what you saw tonight is when he makes his jump shot, he's pretty difficult, maybe impossible, to cover by one guy.

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The pep talk was good. I was fired up. I told them some stories (Karl told the players) how your greatest revenge is your own success and just some stories about everybody is going to be traded. Everybody is going to be fired. That doesn't mean you don't feel juiced and committed to spank the team that let you go.

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It took me a few minutes to get that ugly feeling out of my stomach.

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Last year we had a different mentality of a honeymoon, excitement, enthusiasm. This year we've had very good moments. In general, I would say we've had a very good year, but we have to become more consistent.

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He's become a consistent stud.

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I think the first time, when you hear about it, the first couple of weeks you think about dying more often than you've ever thought about it, ... You're thinking that your life can be coming to an end. . . . I'm sure you think of dying every once in a while, but when you have cancer you think of that every day for three or four weeks (after Karl was diagnosed).

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Ray was in the zone. I've been on the good side of that. Tonight I was on the bad side.

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We should have a new goal - we should win the division championship, ... I don't know if that's 50 wins, 54, 55. ... It might be more, it might be less. But basically it's a tradition of winning division championships.

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I'm not Superman. I can't deny there are moments when I thought I should stay with my son and not be here.

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When we took Kenyon and Carmelo off the court in the fourth quarter it wasn't pretty.

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Our bench is doing a good job responding right now. We're spacing and passing the ball better. You're not going to lose many games when you have 30-plus assists.

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Kaman to me looked like he was hurt. He didn't seem like he had good bounce to anything.

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The truth of the matter is, we're not far away from where we should be. We can complain about the problem or we can go out and solve the problem. I choose to go out and try to solve the problem.

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I appreciate (the apology). But, right now, I'm worrying about coaching the games.

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Ray was in his zone. I've been on the good side of that and tonight I was on the bad side. He had a special rhythm going and I know many shots he just shot over the top of us.

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We played in a pretty intense, consistent rhythm the whole seven games. The energy in the first quarter made us confident enough. (The Hornets) never scared us. They never got mentally into our heads.

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We definitely had a breakdown on that last play. We had a foul to give and we talked about doing that. Miller and Buckner were kind of hanging out and they lost Harris. Two of our best defenders got picked.

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I said it on my radio show this morning and I'll say it again the one guy I hope is traded soon is Vo, for him and for us.

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I don't know if there should be a celebration. There should be recognition of it. I don't know exactly what we'll do, but I think there needs to be some type of recognition, some type of thank you for doing their job well. But I don't think there should be a celebration.

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most people go through life not paying attention to it.

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I wasn't really happy how we played in the first half. We made them really good. We didn't pass the ball well and forced shots.

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