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
energy true
That's especially true for them at home. They are improving. They play with a lot of energy in this building.
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(The Lakers) were extremely aggressive. We got pounded on the glass and they took things to the basket. We played out of character defensively. We were switching and getting little (guys) matched on big (guys) and we took the easy way out by settling for jump shots.
eight last miss pop six
The last thing we need is for him to go out there and really pop it and have to miss six to eight weeks.
games improve last sharp six stay
The last six games you want to stay sharp and you want to improve in some areas.
opening quite thinking
Their organization has always been very first-class. Opening night, sometimes they get really excited. Some of their people, they just really weren't quite thinking all the way.
address clean judge work
I'm not going to let it go. I can only judge by what I see. There are things we have to clean up on Friday. And we'll work to address those things.
rip shots
If you give Rip (Hamilton) shots and he's in rhythm, he'll often make those shots.
compete daily earn floor guys noticed players
I noticed the same thing you noticed. I told him and I have told all of our players -- nothing is given. You earn your minutes. You earn what you get. What we're going to do is put guys on the floor that are going to compete on a daily basis.
ability affect based decisions pro somebody win
In pro sports, you want to win, not only now but down the road. If somebody does something, is it going to affect your ability to win down the road? You make your decisions based on that.
nose putting
I just told the guys, we have to get dirty. We have to do what we do best, and that is putting our nose to the grindstone and going after them.
players tone
Because what teams, coaches, players try to do is set the tone for referees when they come in.
cities early games grind knew leading playing road tough trying
Before the season, we said there were going to be two tough stretches -- being on the road so much early and this one, where we are playing 10 games in 10 different cities leading into the break. We knew it would be tough. We're just trying to grind our way through.
knew time
I knew it was time then to get him out. All of them.
knew rookie run year
I knew he would play. He's a competitor. That's why he's going to run away with the rookie of the year this year.