Bob Hill
Bob Hill
Robert W. Hill is an American basketball coach. Hill grew up in Mount Sterling, Ohio moving to Worthington, Ohio for high school. Upon graduating from high School, Hill entered Bowling Green State University. During the summer of 2011, he was invited by Nike to help Taiwan men's basketball team as a consultant. Most recently, Hill was the assistant coach of the Ukrainian national team at the 2014 FIBA World Cup and the 2015 Euroleague, as well as an assistant coach...
ProfessionCoach
Date of Birth24 November 1928
die guards hard helping nba point understand
It's part of what all point guards go through. He's our point guard. We're going to live and die with him and part of that is helping him understand the NBA and how hard it could be.
credit deserves lots
Damien deserves lots and lots of credit for this one.
continue credit guys injuries scoring screens setting win
Considering all their injuries this year, they continue to win and you have to give (Nash) a lot of credit for that. And Nash doesn't have those big guys to set screens for him and he's still scoring and setting up his teammates.
efficient
That's about as efficient as you can be in the NBA.
agreeing coach contract cooperate expect hard signed whatever
I told them that when they signed that contract they were agreeing that they would cooperate with whatever we wanted to do. I expect them to play hard. I'm not going to coach effort, but I want them to play hard and play good.
best maybe news played proud
It's maybe the best news of the night, that's the best Nick's played in a long time. That's the way he's been practicing. I am proud of him.
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Everybody said he would be the guy to bring up. When he was at Iowa State, I thought that guy was going to be a terrific NBA player. He had good size, and he kind of had an NBA game when he was in college.
biggest career challenge embrace few game offense pace search teams tonight utah
The biggest challenge tonight was to embrace the pace of the game and they did it again. I thought that's one of the few times in my career that any of my teams have been able to take Utah out of their offense and make them search for shots.
courage
It was huge. He's got a lot of courage.
quarter took
It was great. It was like a place revisited in my life. And I think the first quarter, it took me a quarter to kind of feel as comfortable as I should. Then once I got that first quarter over with, it was great.
beat built deep diminish great guys together tonight top win
Not to diminish their win, but we had some guys go down tonight on top of the other guys that we have that are beat up right now. The Spurs are a great team. They are long, they play together and they are a deep team. They are built to win a championship.
bob grew hard presence quickly time
Any time this has to happen, it's very hard on all of us. I grew very quickly into appreciating and being in Bob Weiss' presence every day.
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Their depth just wore us down. We were tired in the fourth quarter. I don't think we could have done much more than we did. I thought the effort was great, and guys played as hard as they could.
change forcing halftime second
At halftime I kind of let them have it for the whole halftime. We didn't really change anything ... the second half was about forcing their will on the game.