After the Sacramento game, one of your players came to speak to the media and said, ‘Darko just said there are no moral victories.’ But you watch how the team’s playing, to be as competitive as you’re being in the circumstances, and they feel like moral victories. So how do you message that to your players? Darko Rajakovic: I want my players to be focused one game at a time, not to worry about the previous game, not to worry about the next game. I want my players to be worried (about and) take advantage of every situation and every possession that we have offensively and defensively. And (I want them) to compete at the highest possible level and with the idea and ambition to walk into every game with the confidence that we are going to compete and do everything we can to win. If we win, it’s awesome. If we don’t win, then it has to be a learning opportunity for us, and we have to continue grinding for more. I will never allow our guys to go into games and just not worry about winning because winning is so important. We’ve got to learn what it takes to compete in those 36 minutes, to extend to 40 minutes, 40 to become 45 until we start putting full 48-minute games (together).
by Hoops Hype