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
knew time
Yeah, I knew it was time to get him out when he did that.
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Those I take as being comments from a young coach who has never been in that situation. I've never been a coach who downgrades what somebody else is doing to build myself up. I have enough confidence in my own ability to where I feel like I can just go out and show what I can do.
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.
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Were not going to keep Michael at 11 or 14 points. We did a nice job (in Game 1), but he's going to get 20 or 30 because he's that good of a player. What we've got to do is make him earn those and make him be a volume scorer. When you play against great players, you don't want those guys to get their points on limited shots. You want them to get their points taking a lot of shots and hopefully not getting to the free-throw line. That has to be our main focus.
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We played 82 games that we considered playoff basketball. That's the way we're going to play. We're going to defend, we're going to move the ball offensively, and that's why I told our guys.
bench range start starters
We'd like to start getting our bench in that 70- to 80-minute range to give our starters some rest.
kids mix players veteran
We'd like to mix our young kids with our veteran players if we can, to have them play with our veterans. But every night, we still want to go out and win.
guys tough toughest
We were all guards. And it makes it tough to get all those guys a lot of minutes. That's always the toughest thing.
slow throwing
We were a half-second slow and they were throwing it up there.
game knew ourselves shake
We were able to put ourselves back in the game in the first half. We just could not shake them. ... You knew it was going to be a game that went down to the wire.
sharp
We want to keep sharp and not be hurt, but still be competitive and have opportunities to win. We'll pretty much play the same way.
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We didn't have our heads in the game in the first half. But this team never ceases to amaze me. They were challenged and they stepped up.
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Palacio, Williams and Ostertag all hurt us in overtime. Those aren't the guys you'd expect it from.