Eddie Jordan
Eddie Jordan
Edmund Patrick "Eddie" Jordan, also known as EJ, is an Irish former motorsport team boss, businessman, presenter, entrepreneur, musician and mentor. Born in Dublin, Jordan worked first at the Bank of Ireland. He won the Irish Kart Championship in 1971 and moved to Formula Ford in 1974. He was the founder and owner of Jordan Grand Prix, a Formula One constructor which operated from 1991 to 2005. He was the chief analyst for Formula One coverage on the BBC from...
ProfessionCoach
Date of Birth29 January 1955
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We wanted to win this game in the worst way. Its a tough, tough loss, but we have to deal with it and get ready for Miami tomorrow night.
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We have a plan as far as getting him some games down there, getting him back up here for some practice time and probably activate him for a game somewhere along the line, ... It's a development thing for him.
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I tell you what, Toronto's got a scrappy, young team, ... They kicked our butts on the boards early in the game and they just keep coming at you. The young guys really give them a spark and I didn't think Graham was going to miss at first and then they just started hurting us on the boards. It's a good scrappy team and we were lucky to get out of it with the win.
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Starting with that six-game road trip, that was our defining moment. Right now we're coming through with flying colors. We went 3-3 on that trip but it's how we've played. We played physical and together and we were in every ball game and we're carrying that throughout the end of the season.
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The .500 mark may be a big issue when you guys talk about it to our guys. But we've got a ways to go. We are improving, and we have to keep it going. Whether we are 10 games over or 10 games under, it's still the same mind-set: go to work, go to practice and continue to improve in every area.
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We have to let it seep out and get over it. And as the night goes along and it turns into a long morning we have to come back together and go to work and win a game on Sunday.
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We're not going out there playing a 50-win Seattle team of last year. We're not going out there to play a Sacramento team that's won 92 percent of its games at home. It's a little bit of a different flavor out there.
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We are defensively challenged, and we've got to continue to work at it. We've got to step our games up. No question about that.
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We'll get a day's rest and close to a full day on Monday and then show up for a 7 o'clock game in Philadelphia. And then we can suck it up. That's what playing big-time basketball is about.
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Today there was a collective effort. We are riding the momentum that we started three games ago. Caron did a really good job defensively. He is really embracing the role that we assigned him as the defensive captain, and we are just riding a wave right now.
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It was a collective effort, and we're just riding the momentum that we started three games ago. Everyone has responded from three games ago, and we're just riding the wave right now.
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It was one of those games where it was a playoff-type intensity and a physical approach was needed.
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The number that I like better is the percentage of games that we have won out of our last 20 games (11-9). If we thought that .500 was our ultimate goal, then there is nothing more to achieve. We really want to keep the momentum going.
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We kind of rode his coattails, ... He carried us. We went from a tie game to up 11 because he got going. Now, they hang on to him and say, 'Thanks Gil.' We should play with poise; we've got veterans now with playoff experience. And that should help us in back-to-back games. We've got a good mix of scorers and defenders. And we've got a guy who can make everybody better. When that thing got real tight tonight, it was, 'Thanks Gil.'