I was supposed to work two or three days scouting the Houston-LA series. They told me to come up to Seattle, and I spent seven weeks up here when they made that run to the championship. So I had two days' worth of clothes for seven weeks. You figure that one out.
"Brendan Thomas Malone" is an American basketball coach, currently serving as an assistant coach for the Detroit Pistons of the National Basketball Association (NBA).
More Brendan Malone on Wikipedia.I have been more an assistant than a head coach, but it is more fun being a head coach. It is more agony, too. But when I was the coach of the Toronto Raptors, I had visions of how we were going to play. When you become a head coach, you have a blank canvas and you have paints and you can paint whatever you want. As an assistant coach, you make suggestions.
That was a great team. We knew how to win. I still remember this: The very first day of practice, we were training in Windsor, Canada, and the guys came out on the floor and said, 'We are going to win a championship.' And we did.
I have been an assistant long enough to know that you don't stop making suggestions if your suggestion is turned down. You just keep on making suggestions. If I make 10 suggestions, he is not going to use 10 of them, but he is going to use some of them.
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