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
free guard point talk throws
You talk about a point guard that can do everything -- that's Chauncey. He can make the 3, he can pass, he can defend, he makes free throws and he scores.
against amount average backs confidence couple great last played situation superior team
You're in a situation where the other team doesn't have anything to lose. Their backs are against the wall, and they're going to come out and play with a great amount of energy. They're going to play with confidence from the way they've played their last couple games. You know going in about that situation, so you know you have to go in and have a superior performance. You can't just come out and have an average performance.
happy moments
You're happy. It's one of the moments where you end up really happy or really sad.
games good
You never feel like you're in good shape. These are all winnable games, but they're all games you have to go out and play. No one's going to give you the game.
against confidence floor game player score straight thinks walk
You never want to have a player that has so much confidence against you that he thinks he can just take the game over at any time. At least he's not going to think he can walk on the floor and score 17 straight on us.
conference five format might third
This is the third of our five steps, but this one might be the most important of the first four, because of the 2-2-1-1-1 format in the conference finals.
five third
This is the third of our five steps.
bit played shots
They pounded us on the glass. Give them credit. They made shots and played with more energy. We were a little bit tired.
both glass previous saw tonight
They pounded the glass both ways. I saw more lob dunks tonight than I saw in the previous 56 games.
confidence great playing
Antonio was great tonight. He's been playing like that for a while now. He has a lot of confidence in himself.
past playing
Antonio's been playing like that for the past month. He's been playing phenomenal.
bottom line score taking volume work
The bottom line is, he's going to score. What you can't let him do is get into that 40-point range. You have to make him a volume scorer -- what he's done now is score without taking a lot of shots. We've got to make him work more, offensively and defensively.
bearing dominate either game great playoff team
This is going to be a great game for the fans. It's going to be a competitive game. But I don't know how much bearing it will have for either team down the road. I mean, if we go out and dominate them, I don't know what bearing that would have come playoff time, and same thing the other way.
few step weeks
This is step one, but we don't want to be at step 10 right now anyway. We have a few weeks yet before we want to be at step 10.