Adonal Foyle
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"Adonal David Foyle" is a retired Vincentian-American professional basketball Center (basketball)/center. He was selected by the Golden State Warriors with the eighth overall selection of the 1997 NBA Draft. He played ten seasons with the team until the team bought out his contract on August 13, 2007. At the time, he had been the Warriors' longest-tenured player. He then played two seasons with the Orlando Magic and part of the season with the Memphis Grizzlies, sat out the next season due to knee surgery, and retired.

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You have to start making those an intrinsic part of what you do. I think the more we do that, the better we're going to be as a team.

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For me to just go back in that environment where it's being encouraged was great, ... Just to keep working on your game, keep stretching your game and keep learning.

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It was extremely difficult, ... Coach felt like he needed to make a change, and he did, and I was the person that got changed. For whatever reason, right or wrong, as a player you're still trying to figure out what you did wrong.

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I think guys are beginning to understand that and are making the effort to become a better defensive team.

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I think clearly this has been a point of emphasis for us.

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If I'm on the weak side and one of my players is on the strong side and he's coming to the basket, I might just pull on the guys shorts -and that's not going to show up in statistics -but the player on my team knows that guy couldn't come over because I pulled him. How do you measure that?

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Lowest I've been in a long time.

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I think that part of the ethos, the culture of a team is to kind of foster that, where a charge is a good thing, a shot block is a good thing, just being in the right spot, being back and helping other teammates.

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