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
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.
amaze ceases challenged game heads stepped team
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.
almost anybody fan gotten last played seven starters vote votes
The starters have always been a fan vote and Vince has probably gotten more votes for the last seven years almost than anybody that's played the game. He had a lot of votes this year.
ended mean repeat tigers
The significance of the Tigers going 35-5 is that they ended up being world champions. If we can repeat what they did, then it would really mean something.
maybe voted
He's still a young guy. He's going to be an All-Star (one day). Who knows? Maybe he'll still get voted in. We'll have to see what happens.
barometer ben both energy forward guard heart positions soul three works
He's the barometer for their team. He is the heart and soul of their team. He can play three positions (shooting guard and both forward spots), and he works so hard. He is kind of like their Ben. Ben is our energy guy, and Shane is theirs.
aggressive contested ends shots starts staying taking talk time turn worse
He starts to get hesitant. He'll turn down shots the first time and then all of the sudden, he ends up taking a shot that's a worse shot than he had the first time. Or a contested shot. So with him, I talk to him about staying aggressive offensively.
both guys hopefully work
Hopefully we'll play these guys again. But we both have a lot of work to do before that.
guys looked
Chauncey looked a lot livelier. A lot of guys looked a lot more livelier tonight.
charles game gave great talk
Charles (Barkley, TNT commentator) gave a great talk for us at halftime. He said the game was over.