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
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The biggest thing is he's going to help us so much defensively, people aren't going to beat him out there.
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The biggest thing is going to be now he's on a team that's a championship-type team. It's just that mind-set. But I think that's the reason he came here, because that's what he wanted to get into.
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Nothing, really. I didn't talk to him. It's not an issue.
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The bench has been great. And that creates that vicious cycle. When the bench is playing well, they play more minutes and the starters get more rest.
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It just means we can put different people out there and play different ways.
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It's almost like a classroom. A lot of teams are very temperamental. We have a sense of calm.
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It's going to be a great challenging game for both teams. They are a great defensive team, but the reason we had some success in Minnesota was because of offensive ball movement and player movement. They want to lock you down on one side of the floor. If you can get the defense moving, you can have some success against them.
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It's going to be a good challenge for us to play against them. I think our guys are all of the opinion, no matter what anyone says, when people play against us, they want to show that they're better than us or can beat us.
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It's been pretty much a mirror from the standpoint of both teams have established their ability to win at home, they got great crowds at both places as far as the enthusiasm, and both our teams have been the best teams on the road. It's different sports, but we're both looking each other in the mirror.
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It seems like every team comes out and plays their best game against (us). As a team, it's like taking body shots every game.
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It wasn't like he right away went for the head or whatever. They were both fighting for position. You talk about reputation. . . . That's not like Rip to just go after somebody like that.
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It's tough. It's always tough to play on the road. It's even tougher when you feel you aren't getting a fair shake.
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They controlled the tempo. We played out of character.
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They caught us at a time where we were a little on edge from what happened in Orlando.