I think, as a group it's been real eye opening to me. It's easy to go to those two, but it becomes an epidemic with the team. It's funny, sometimes my coaching staff gets sick of me talking about it. Which is the skill we have to work on the most, is it our shooting or is it our spacing/passing, that stuff. Is it the chicken or the egg. We agree that we struggle shooting. And at times I get frustrated because our passing isn't as bad or as selfish as I make it out to be in the light of day, when I watch tape. I think because we struggle so much shooting, people guard us in obvious ways. So when I look at Michael and Tony, they're obvious culprits becuas they hvae the ball the most and they're driving the most, but I think as a team it's just something that I'm never giong to let go of, because I know the ripple effects are enormous, some unintended consequences that produce poor chemistry and all those types of things. And so it's those two, and the team, and I think we're actually getting better. I do feel like the spacing, we're doing a better job of coaching the spacing, they're understanding their outlets a littel bit better, and how to play in this very, very well coached, scouted world in the NBA.

Just that he can do more than shoot. every time I'm asked this question I can't help myself but to talk about how i'm always challenging him defensively. It's not his nature, right now, to think or act like that. It's in him. He cares. He's extremely coachable, and we're working on a basic close-out, can you guard the yard, are you good for three slides, knowledge of personnel, you've got Korver, you've got somebody else, all those types of things. But his ability to score in a variety of ways, far more than just shooting, has caught me off guard. I think we all have to remember that he was a college 4-man in his former life, and so guarding interior players isn't that foreign to him. His length, his 7'2 wingspan, allows him to do some things that his weight may contradict. I thinkt hose few things have stood out in the limited time that I've had him.

Normally I'm quite, either very uncompetitive or true, when you say 'do you want to play against LeBron? No'. I think when Anthony comes in, only becuase of what you just said, it's for Nerlens, it's the poster-child to 'he was 212 pounds, he now is 240'. We're going to see a player, if he does plya, has grown his game in all shapes and sizes. He leads the NBA in points in the paint, he can step out and hit a comfortable 18 footer, he blocks shots, he's a presence at the rim, and he's a legitimate superstar. He's a legitimate buildign block. I don't use those words wrecklessly....he's just a bonafide star, that loves the game, that continues to develop and get better. For all those reasons, along with his college, that Nerlens can pay attention. It is a great example for Nerlens. 

I think Nerlens has to create his own touches. I get upset at Nerlens for not being the best coach he's ever had. Because if he runs the floor and he stamps his foot, the whole offense is what I've been used to with the Spurs, which Timmy and David liked just fine...You've got to command the ball and you've got to want the ball, and at times he does and at times he's just trying ot be a good teammate and not appear to be selfish, but players that need a coach to call plays for them all the time, that is too great of a responsibilty for me. I think it's on a point guard to feel it, it most defintely is on me, from time to time, realize he needs a touch, but it is well and truly dropped on his doorstep. You create your own plays. Run the floor, stamp your foot, post up, and then go. And we'll play off of you, and I hope I do a good job spacing around him.


We’re not in a position, right now, to talk in detail about him yet, because we’re still exploring stuff

We want to deliver something that’s 100% a decision, and at this stage we’re just not there yet