Larry Harris
Larry Harris
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Over this time, we have had some difficult decisions to make. Our goal is to build a team that can get to the playoffs every year and, ultimately, to win a championship.
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Our goal is to build a team that can get to the playoffs every year and ultimately to win a championship. I am excited about the future and glad I will be a part of this organization moving forward.
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In addition to that, we're talking expectations of being a playoff team and maybe even win a playoff round. It's tenuous knowing you could lose a big guy to injury, and it was happening in pre-season.
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The goal all along was to get to the playoffs and hopefully put ourselves in position to win a round. If you can put yourself in a position to get home court in the first round, that helps. It could be that you get the No. 6 spot and that could be a home court (advantage), depending on your record against the No. 3 seed. That's mathematically still a possibility.
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We just sit and drink coffee. There's no (written) agenda and we just come and go as our schedule allows us.
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We feel very fortunate to get a player like Jamaal. Obviously, Desmond was a big part of what we've done. He's a fan favorite and a favorite of the organization. But you have to give up talent to get talent. And anytime you get a quality big man you certainly have to give up quality. Both of us got a good player.
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We felt we needed more depth at the four and five spots. We've known since the end of last season and through training camp that we need to improve our rebounding and our depth up front.
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We felt we needed more depth at the four and five spots, ... We've known since the end of last season and through training camp that we need to improve our rebounding and our depth up front.
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Ersan is a young, skilled player who we felt fortunate to select in the second round of the draft. He has all the tools to be a productive NBA player, and he has been working hard this summer to get stronger physically.
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Bloomingdale's could boost sales 5% if it put up an ad for a one-day sweater sale in my building at lunchtime. Everyone in the elevator will see it because they're desperate to not have to look at anyone else.
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Every team needs depth at the point guard position,
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A trade like this requires giving up talent to get talent. Desmond Mason has given his heart and soul to our organization and to the community. He's had a great deal to do with our success both on and off the court, and we thank him and wish him well.
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At this point, it's all about name recognition.
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To me, it's almost a geological formation. It was very much a landscape, not just an obsessive collection of junk like you see in some of these places.