Avery Johnson
Avery Johnson
Avery Johnsonis an American basketball coach who is currently the head coach of the Alabama Crimson Tide men's basketball team. Johnson spent 16 years in the National Basketball Association as a player, and subsequently served as the head coach of two NBA teams: the Dallas Mavericks and New Jersey/Brooklyn Nets. He led the Mavericks to their first NBA Finals appearance and to three consecutive 50+ win seasons. During his playing days, Johnson was known as the "Little General" for his...
ProfessionBasketball Player
Date of Birth25 March 1969
CityNew Orleans, LA
All you're going to remember is the last shot. That's all that matters.
They know I love to practice, and we don't really brag on how much we practice or how much we prepare like a lot of other situations. But they know I love to practice and I've been missing out on my good practices trying to just keep them fresh a little bit.
They made some runs, but we weathered the storm.
This is the nuts and bolts of the NBA season. Your body doesn't feel as good, you fight a little fatigue, you have some injuries, and nobody cares about injuries.
You're not always going to get a double-double, but you want him to play with intensity and not get so many cheap fouls, showing some emotion.
You're not always going to get a double-double but we want him to play with emotion and intensity. Does what he did tonight make coach happy for the rest of the playoffs? No way. He's still paying me back.
You're concerned any time a guy is injured and you have a timetable and are not able to hit those kind of goals.
This isn't going to be an easy series for anybody. Memphis isn't going to back down from anybody. They haven't played their best game.
This is the best he's looked in the last couple of days. Hopefully, we can get in a good practice in Utah, and then we'll see how he looks.
A very disappointing loss. We played a short stretch there in the fourth quarter a little bit. But other than that, we didn't play well at all again tonight and that's what concerns me.
A very disappointing loss, a disappointing way to end our road trip. Their point guards destroyed us. It's that simple. They destroyed us.
That's huge. He doesn't have to lead us every night. I want him to be aggressive and get his shots. But we've got to be able to get some offense from someplace else.
Devin Harris probably had his best day, really, of the preseason, including practices.
Are they tired of what? What have we done? It's a hundred days to the Finals right now. This is what the NBA season is about. It's not about having three days off between a game or anything like that. This is the nuts and bolts of the NBA season. Your body doesn't feel as good, you fight a little fatigue, you have some injuries and nobody cares about injuries.