Oscar Robertson Quotes

I don’t think that players learn how to play any other aspect of the game in high school or college.

Some players are more physical than others, some play with more finesse. Some are just really great all-around players. So you have to change your game.

College coaches want to power the ball inside, they want (their post players) to power the ball up, but no one can shoot from that 15-foot area anymore.

The thing about it is almost everyone could pass that way, but we were kept from doing it by our coaches.

I’m sorry that the young athletes in basketball will not get the chance to play (in the Olympics) anymore, and live that dream.

People say that, but I think the NBA was bigger than Larry Bird and Magic Johnson.

You need a teaching coach who understands the game of basketball, not just some guy coming on the court talking about Xs and Os.

When you go into a game on offense, you make a couple moves and see what the defender is going to do. Then you pretty much can figure out what he is going to do against you – whether he carries his hands low or high, whether he is bumping or pushing, those type of things.

I think no one has written a history of the great coaches who were around 30 to 40 years ago who taught the fundamentals.

When you play against different people from all walks of life you can’t do the same thing against every player defensively or offensively. You have to change up the way you go at a player.

But if people are buying the products, naturally they’re gonna use them.

The players have no real self-esteem when it comes to putting the best image out there in a real competitive fashion.