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
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These are young guys and we're trying to win. For me to build a winning environment, you have to try to win every night. These guys were scratching and diving for balls and they deserved to win.
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We're coaching to win first. Development will come along with that. I'm trying to create an environment of professionalism, working hard, playing hard.
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I think right now Fred is just trying to decide what he wants to do, whether he wants to coach, be in the front office or play. I think he could do all three. He still can make shots. He's very knowledgeable of the NBA to be in the front office or to be a coach. It's a good dilemma to have.
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I'd like to see what the game brings. We're going in trying to win the game. I'm not going out trying to have a tryout. We'll do that Sunday in practice.
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You have to have focus on the road and a mental toughness, that's what we're trying to find.
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That's growing pains. Hopefully Marcus will learn from it; nobody was trying harder than he was.
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I think you have to have a focus on the road, a mental toughness on the road, that I think we're trying to find. That's the story of our season.
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I'm trying to create an environment of professionalism, working hard and playing hard.
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He's a one-man wrecking crew. We spent the whole night trying to figure out the offensive sets around where he was on the play. He's a great player. He's one of the guys you have to think about for Defensive Player of the Year.
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I don't think the commissioner had any race intentions whatsoever with the new dress code. I just think he's trying to improve the image.
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Tony Parker is probably one of the fastest human beings in the world. He puts so much pressure on the defense when he is coming at you.
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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.
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We hit a wall. We hit a freight train in the third quarter. Offensively we couldn't execute, we couldn't shoot and we couldn't score. ... They turned the heat up and we didn't respond.
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I've said this all along; I do want to play Marko. And Marko has had two good days of spirited practice. He's got that fight back. He's got that spirit back that I liked. I thought he lost that.