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
defense hold milwaukee points score staple team
When you take a team like Milwaukee that can really score and you hold them to 74 points your team defense is doing something. That's the staple of our team.
ability both defend execute lose
We're not going to lose our personality. Our personality is still our ability to defend and to execute offensively, and we did both today.
came credit few good last
To our credit we came back and located him in the last few minutes, and didn't give him any good looks.
beat calmed played position win
To our credit, we calmed down and just played basketball. The thing is, especially on the road, you put yourself in a position to win games. We don't beat ourselves.
defense lock
We know when to lock down. Our defense hasn't slipped at all.
approach change starting
Wally has been very important to us, but he hasn't been starting for us. So it's not like we have to change a lot how we approach the game.
career defense expose guys matter
It didn't matter if (Bryant) had 50, 40, 20, 10 ? the idea was for us to win. The idea was not to try to expose our defense where all the sudden, you have other guys that have career games.
coming five minutes question receptive team winning won
I thought, 'You're coming to a team that just won a championship and was five minutes away from winning another,' so your question is how receptive will they be to what you want to do,
bad capitalize chance mentally minute played somewhat
I thought we were not as mentally alert. We played somewhat out of character, but as bad as we played we still had a chance with a minute to go. We didn't capitalize on our opportunities down the stretch. You play 82 games, and you don't like to say you didn't have it, but we didn't have it tonight.
check id number paycheck step
I think the number one thing with young players, you got to get them to play hard. When you step on the court, they don't check your paycheck to see how much you make, and they don't check your ID to see how old you are.
bench chase extended focus guys health minutes ready rest staying
We're not going to chase that record, but if it comes, it comes. Our focus right now is health and staying sharp. We're going to rest some guys and give our bench extended minutes to get them ready for the playoffs.
We sense what's coming. We know what's going to come here in two weeks.
games grind mental win
This season, as much as anything, has been a grind. When you win 63 games and how you've played, it's as much as mental grind as it is physical.
against games
Those are always more grind-type games than those against the West.