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
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.
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.
act basketball continue defensive dominate east envision goal good mentally nba offensive return step talk team together tougher toughness
I do envision championship basketball and when you talk about championship basketball, you talk about a good defensive team, you talk about a good offensive team and you talk about a team that really has its act together once they step on the floor. Our goal is to dominate the east and we must continue to dominate the east so that we can have another return to the NBA Finals. And I think mentally we have to become a tougher basketball team. I think mental toughness is going to be the thing that makes us champions.
acquire assets help phase rebuilding secure trying
We've always said this is a rebuilding phase that we're in, and we keep trying to acquire assets to help us in that process. In doing that, we also want to secure and help our present.
allow financial man pawn work
She did not even work for me. I will not allow her or anybody, man or woman, to use me as a pawn for their financial gain.
I wouldn't. Wouldn't part with any of them.
everybody happiness happy record
No one is happy with our record but I can tell you we're going to get better. That's what everybody is working toward. That's what we all want.
american-athlete lose passionate win word
One word is passion. They are passionate about their team. We win we're great, lose and we're the worst. But you can't overreact to the fans.
came contracts draft level nobody people players reasonable stand talent trade
When I came here, the first thing that was told to me was that we had players nobody wanted, couldn't trade any of the contracts. As we stand here today. . . . we have draft picks, we have players people want and the contracts that we have in place are pretty reasonable contracts for the talent level we have.
both hard job knew larry talk
Larry and I talk every day. We both knew that this would be a hard job but we're both working to make it better.
goal thats win
Our goal is to win a championship. Thats the only goal.
prayers supposed thoughts
Our prayers and thoughts are with him. We will do everything that we're supposed to do and beyond.
coming finally heard hurt night
You have no idea how it hurt. It finally was coming together. That night (against All Saints) -- it was amazing. They heard everything I said.
american-athlete great job larry needed
We needed Larry Brown. Me more so than anyone. I wanted Larry to do a great job for us and I thought he would and I thought he could.