Flip Saunders
Flip Saunders
Philip Daniel "Flip" Saunderswas an American basketball player and coach. During his career, he coached the Minnesota Timberwolves, Detroit Pistons, and Washington Wizards...
ProfessionCoach
Date of Birth23 February 1955
CityCleveland, OH
guys miss shoot shot thinking whether
To this point, we've shot it pretty well. I don't want guys thinking about whether they should shoot it or not. If they do that, they're probably going to miss it anyway.
happens jump team waiting
(With) a young team, what happens is, it's like they're waiting for us to make a run. When a team makes a run, you have to really jump in there.
call played watch
When I watch film, they played zone, ... They just didn't call it zone.
against game games guys half lead parts played team tonight york
We've played 37 games and different guys lead us over different parts of the game and play unselfish...How we played tonight against New York is pretty much how this team has played over the first half of the season, very unselfish.
bench conscious create effort games last role three won
Two of the last three games that we won were because of our bench, and (Sunday) night, our bench got us in the game. We say we're going to make a very conscious effort to play them, create a role for them, create a niche, create an identity, and I think that's what we've done.
exactly number time true
Every time it happens, you always try to find out if there's questionable ones. I don't exactly know what the number is and what the true number is.
aggressive far initial searching staying
But most of the things has to be, as far as staying aggressive in your initial offense, not searching out the three.
amaze cease chance guys halftime heads
I told the guys after the game, they never cease to amaze me. Halftime I told them I thought we didn't have our heads in the game. I said, I don't know where this is going to take us, but I know we don't have a chance if we don't get our heads into it.
ended
I told them this is just the first chapter. ... The thing about the Tigers' 35-5 is that they ended as world champions.
home maybe terms
For a playoff-type situation, that's maybe the most important in terms of having home court.
talk
It's the same thing. We talk to him. He'll be fine. He'll be fine.
anybody situation
It's the same thing. Keep sharp, not get anybody hurt, be in a situation to go out and have some success.
criteria
It's one of those things -- it's the criteria that you look at.
coming players toughest wants
It's one of those things, if you put him out there for 10 minutes, he wants 15. If you put him out there for 15, he wants 20. That's the toughest thing about young players coming to championship-caliber teams.