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
bad good looked playing shows team
To have 36 assists on 43 baskets shows that we are playing team basketball. We aren't as good as we looked tonight, and we aren't as bad as we looked in Dallas.
means missing open shoot
When you shoot 35 percent, that means you're missing some open shots. But they also had something to do with it.
both confidence defense feed scoring
We have a lot of confidence in our defense and when you're scoring offensively, they both feed off of each other.
both confidence ends players score shows stops
We can still get stops and we can score 67 in a half, ... That shows the players that they can get it done at both ends of the floor, which is going to be big for their confidence as we go through the season.
brought came everybody took
We came out kind of flat. We brought in Carlos, and he got us back in the game, took over the game, and everybody else finished.
relaxing run time
We'll run our offense. We'll run our plays. That'll be the most relaxing time that I'll have at the All-Star Game, when they're on the floor.
ability anticipate holding playing
We have the ability to get by without him, but he's going to want to play. That's how he is. I don't anticipate anything holding him back from playing, and playing a lot of minutes.
carry good people tougher
We've had different people carry us at different times. That's what has made this a very good team, and has made us tougher to play against.
bell charlie contest continue ford game good guys limit normally overall philosophy played rebound shot shots three whatever
We have to know that they have other guys that are capable. Charlie Bell has played well. T.J. Ford had a pretty good game overall and we've got to continue to find those two. Just do what we normally do. Our philosophy is to contest whatever shot is taken, try to limit three-point shots and rebound the basketball. Those are three things we did.
care happens hope mouth shut
Usually when you want something, usually you keep your mouth shut and hope that it happens and take care of business. That's how it usually goes.
ability aggressive hard strength team whatever
Usually, whatever team is aggressive is going to have success. I thought they were more aggressive. Our strength is our ability to play hard and be aggressive, and when a team does that better than you do, you're going to struggle.
coming concerned effective identity lose sure
I was more concerned coming in with the defense. I feel in time, we're going to be able to do preparation to be effective offensively. Let's make sure we don't lose our identity defensively.
college five guys high hope kids league maybe opportunity people rare school standpoint talk team whether
I would hope there would be at least three, maybe more. As coaches, we talk about team play, how important it is. This is an opportunity from a league standpoint to show to people - whether it's college kids or high school kids or AAU kids - how important team play really is. It's a very rare opportunity you'd have as a league to maybe put five guys from one team in.
extremely high played
I would like to say we did something good, but we didn't. We had something to do with that, but it had more to do with how the Nuggets played. They played at an extremely high level.