Dwane Casey
Dwane Casey
Dwane Caseyis an American basketball coach. He is the current head coach of the NBA's Toronto Raptors. Casey is also a former NCAA basketball player and coach, having played and coached there for over a decade before moving on to the NBA...
ProfessionCoach
Date of Birth17 April 1957
aggressive basketball hit jump line nine playing road second settling stopped tells
We got out playing the way we wanted to play basketball in the first quarter. In the second quarter, we hit a road block. We stopped being aggressive and started settling for jump shots. We only got to the free-throw line nine times. That tells me that we weren't being aggressive.
ball push run stop time walk
I've always told them to run. The only time we want to stop and run a set play is on a dead-ball situation. We get a rebound, we want to push it. We never want to walk the ball up the court, never.
aggressive basket second stopped
It really is frustrating. For some reason, we stopped being aggressive and going to the basket in the second half. We did become tentative, and we've got to get out of that.
almost impossible physically stop
He's like a locomotive going to the basket. It's almost physically impossible to stop him without fouling him.
blew containing couple defensive excellent executing job past stopping tonight
I don't think they blew by us once in a pick-and-roll situation. Where in the past couple games, they've had a smorgasbord, tonight he did an excellent job of containing that, stopping that and really executing our defensive schemes.
great key name sure value
I'm sure his name will come up. He has great value around the league. But I like him. He was the key to the trade, I think.
coach takes understand
I'm very encouraged. If you put a 15-year coach in this situation, they probably wouldn't be as patient, but I understand that ... it takes time.
continue positive speed work
I like our group. The positive energy, the speed and quickness. We've got to continue to work and get better.
cannot lightly
It's something you cannot take lightly at all. And I don't take it lightly.
eddie excellent great griffin job paint playing protecting
Eddie Griffin had a great game. He did an excellent job of protecting the paint and playing big.
fun losing run sports
Everybody's going to make a run and when they did, we didn't collapse. It's not fun losing the lead, but the important thing is that we didn't give in.
defense paint playing points
That is unforgivable. If you give 50 points in the paint to a team, you are not playing very much defense and that is the most disappointing thing of all.
exploited giving means paint playing points tonight
That is unforgivable. Giving up 50 points in the paint means you're not playing much defense. That's what was most disappointing. If you get 100 points, that's enough to win. Tonight everyone was a culprit. They exploited all of us.
laughed laughter walked
They would have laughed if you walked in with long shorts.