Isiah Thomas
Isiah Thomas
Isiah Lord Thomas IIIis an American retired basketball player who played professionally for the Detroit Pistons in the National Basketball Association. The 12-time NBA All-Star was named one of the 50 Greatest Players in NBA History and was inducted into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame. Thomas has also been a professional and collegiate head coach, a basketball executive, and a broadcaster...
ProfessionBasketball Player
Date of Birth30 April 1961
CityChicago, IL
loyal singular team winning
I am loyal to winning and I am not loyal to any singular individual. I'm going to do what I need to do to make our team better.
chaos good job sure
My job is to make sure in all the chaos you can still see the flowers, you can still see the good things happening.
actively coach deal definitely happy improve opportunity safe talk trying
I don't think that we will be actively out shopping, trying to make a deal or anything like that. I think it's pretty safe to say we're happy and comfortable with where we are, but if there's an opportunity to improve our team, I definitely will look at it. Coach and I will talk about it and if it makes sense, we'll do it.
add assets basketball both caliber core giving key player team trade
This is a trade that we all feel makes us a better basketball team for both now and in the future. In Steve, we add an All-Star caliber player to our team without giving up core assets that are key to our future.
extremely great keeps level money positive reminding talent team trying
As Mr. Dolan keeps reminding us, it's his money and he's comfortable with what we're doing and how we're proceeding and how we're trying to put our team together. We do have assets, our talent level is better and we have a great coach. I'm pretty positive about our future, extremely positive about our future.
coach coached forward future help lack present scoring secure small stressed void
Right now we have a lack of scoring or a void at the small forward position. Coach (Larry Brown) has stressed to me this is a person he's had that he's coached before and he can help us right now. We can secure our present and secure our future as well.
american-athlete believe player problems rid understand
There is not a player on this roster now, who doesn't understand or believe that if he is not performing, I don't have problems getting rid of them.
nba player
The only thing I could say to myself is 'wow. I don't think there's another NBA player who would have done that.
american-athlete best luxury players sit teams
Where we sit now, I don't think we have the luxury of the 20 teams before us. I think we are going after the best players we can get on the board.
chance
We never got a chance to do that.
game perfect
We never had the perfect game but we had some perfect moments.
added injured move players regain
When you have players that have been injured for some time, you have to find a way to move on and make the roster better. If Allan was to come back and regain his form, then it's an added bonus.
knew nervous pull
We where nervous in the first quarter. But I knew they were going to pull it out.
breakdown good great loss matter
We're all kind of at a loss where the breakdown came. I know we have a great coach. I know we have good players. It's just a matter of those things meshing.