I just wanted to try and impose my will ... Just being in that position six years ago [in the Eastern Conference finals against the New Jersey Nets] and letting it slip away, I didn't want it to slip away again.
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I just wanted to try and impose my will ... Just being in that position six years ago [in the Eastern Conference finals against the New Jersey Nets] and letting it slip away, I didn't want it to slip away again.
He said he loved me ... And then he said, 'Thank you for sticking with me,' and I was thinking, 'Me with you?' I was thinking the other way around. It meant a lot, obviously, but we're going to enjoy this.
I just pretty much said to Doc, 'Thanks for sticking with me,' ... We definitely had our ups and downs as a player and coach in the beginning, but he could have easily went to management and said, 'Aw, I don't want this knucklehead,' but he didn't. He stuck it out with me.
I think we were talking about this, the fact that he stayed in the times when all the stars, when their teams get bad, they want to bail, they want to get traded, but Paul reupped. He stayed with us. To me that means a lot, and I said that when he did it ... So he deserves this.
When you are up there, you're playing with Paul (Pierce) and Ray (Allen), and they practice the majority of the time and get the majority of the minutes ... They have their rotation and they are the defending World Champions -- it's kind of hard to crack that lineup.
It was a hell of a hustle play ... He pressured up on (Boston's Paul) Pierce, got a deflection, dove face first. I went out to say 'great job.' He smiled at me and he didn't have any teeth.
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