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
against expansive offense prepare teams
The thing is -- like it or not -- a lot of teams don't prepare much to play against zones, ... They don't have as expansive an offense as they do for man-to-man.
best east forward guess played power reason record votes
Not only because of the votes but with how he's played. Right now, he's been the best power forward in the East with how he's played through the first 40 games. Look at what our record is and how he's played, and I guess you'd have to give me a reason why he shouldn't.
came half kept locked lose second though three
After the second half started, we locked down and were a lot better defensively. Even though we got down, we didn't lose our aggressiveness. But we came down and ... scored three times on them. We just kept controlling it.
bench gave lift points tonight
It's not always about how many points they score. I thought our bench really gave us a lift tonight in a lot of different ways.
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.
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.
chicago found plays tried turn type
Chicago plays physical. They play hard. I think that they found out that if they just let us do what we want to do, we can be very effective. So they tried to turn it into a muck it, grind-it-up type game.