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What [Memphis] taught me is I can still coach guys hard, but I have to know the level I can go to, I have to coach them with the idea that it’s bigger than basketball.

— David Fizdale

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I’m just going to keep leaning into the idea of being a human first and being a coach second, and see where that takes me. That’s where I think I’ll find winning.

I want to come back to the game with my mind totally on service, Service without means to an end. I’ve never coached that way before.

I always thought, ‘Whoever you give me, I can win with them. I’ll figure it out, That’s how arrogant I was.

I think I’m at a place now that I see purpose in what I do. A deeper purpose.

I probably was too nice to those guys, I was too wrapped up in what would happen to them if they didn’t play. It was basically the opposite of what I did wrong in Memphis.

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