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
bit eats guys happens minutes
So what happens is, it eats up some of those minutes and the other guys have to play a bit more.
afternoon far games nice
So your whole day is a preparation, really, for that game, as far as the night. The nice thing about afternoon games is you get up, go to the game and you're done.
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So with different personnel, you can run the same play, but your option that might be one of your main options for one team, for the other team, it might be a whole totally different option. So they have a familiarity in knowing some things you want to run, some tendencies as far as what you're going to do. But we're kind of a counter puncher. You come out, we jab, we jab, we see what you're going to throw, and then we counter-punch that.
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Delfino really took advantage of his time. He's the one guy we have (on the bench) who can beat people off the bounce, off the dribble. He can create plays for himself and for other people.
feels felt good nine statement
I'd say that 37 points, nine assists and one turnover make a pretty good statement for the All-Star game. He felt good tonight, and when he feels that good, we're just going to let him go.
front mean
I'd really like him to see the 'Detroit' on the front of our jerseys a lot. That would mean we're on him.
pieces
I don't see any holes. I think all the pieces are there.
chase flow indiana rebounds stops
I don't think we got in any flow offensively or defensively. We just didn't make stops or chase down long rebounds like Indiana did.
days evaluate hard help orlando team
He's making progress. What will help him is that after Orlando (tonight) we have two days of practice. He will be able to have two hard team practices, and we can evaluate him after that.
change feels great playing
He's in a great rhythm. When you get someone who's playing in a rhythm, you don't want to change their routine. He feels comfortable, and he's playing well.
almost basket jump shot whenever
He can get a jump shot whenever he wants, he can get to the basket almost whenever he wants, and he just does things so easy.
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Zone might be a four-letter word around here, ... but they've been pretty receptive to it. I think it's one of those things that, if we play it and we're successful with it, they'll wrap their arms around it a little bit more.
basically basketball both game hyped maybe meant saw teams
You saw both teams as basically who they are -- meat-and-potato teams. Maybe this is why the game wasn't hyped as much. This is what basketball was meant to be like -- play defense, play team basketball.
basically both saw teams
You saw both teams as basically who they are - both meat-and-potato teams.