Del Harris
Del Harris
Delmer William "Del" Harrisis an American basketball coach who is currently the vice president of the Texas Legends, the NBA D-League affiliate of the Dallas Mavericks. He served as a head coach for the NBA's Houston Rockets, Milwaukee Bucks, and Los Angeles Lakers, as well as the Legends. He was also an assistant coach for the National Basketball Association's New Jersey Nets, Chicago Bulls, Dallas Mavericks, Milwaukee Bucks, and the Houston Rockets...
ProfessionCoach
Date of Birth13 October 1937
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I really like his game. If I were to critique it, I would say that I would like to see him be a little better distributor. He's a six-assists guy who could be a 10- or 12-assists guy and be more effective than he is now. And I think when he makes that next step . . . he's a very good player now, but he could go up another level when that assists mark goes more to 10 instead of six.
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I didn't make the cut. Clearly, Avery didn't do his homework and check out what kind of shooter I was in college.
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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.
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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.
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When I had him in the Olympics in the summer of 2004, after every practice and after every game throughout the whole time that I had him, when he would take his shoes off, his socks would be red on the inside from the blood coming from his big toe.
one-on-one
Nobody can guard Kobe one-on-one. Nobody.
basketball team player
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.
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There has never been a great 'silent' defense
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We'll find out, won't we? It has produced 60 wins. But we all know that's not the ultimate goal.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.