“The toughest thing to guard is a great shooter that screens.”-Roy Williams
“Don’t do drills I practice that don’t represent a portion of your system.”
-Gary Williams
“The key to posting is do your work BEFORE you catch the ball.”
-Don Meyer
“My emphasis is not on running an offense...it is on teaching my team offense. We want players who can play offense, not run an offense.”
-Mike Krzyzewski
“Against man to man defense your opponent determines the match-ups, you determined where they play. Against zone defense, they determine where they play, you determine the match-ups.”
-Bob Knight
“You have to win inside regardless of your post game. If you don’t have a solid post player you have to score inside on angles through the use of curls, flashing, and the back cut.”
-Jim Crews
“Repetition is the key to success — doing what you have to do over and over and always doing it right.”
-Pete Carrill
“Find good things to break down a defense. Break the whole defense down, then find ways to allow an individual to break his defender down.”
-Pete Gaudet
“The best attitudes in the world won’t help win ball games if they’re not accompanied by a fundamental competence in the game.”
-Dr. Jack Ramsay
“I didn’t realize that Coach (Knight) would keep teaching us those three basic screens nearly every practice day for the rest of my time at Indiana.”
-Steve Alford