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
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Ben was phenomenal defensively. It was good that we were able to get Ben some good extended rest. He's going to be bench-pressing a lot of weight on Wednesday.
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Ben was great. The energy he played with for 56 minutes was unreal.
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Ben was great. He showed tonight why I keep saying he's the best defensive player in our league.
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Every team has a chance to win, whether you are playing Detroit, Miami, New Jersey or whoever. There are no bargains in this thing where somebody is just going to walk through the first round. That's just how this league operates.
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As I said in the locker room, people die to get to 50 (wins). To get to 60 is really something. Every win beyond that shows that you've been able to play at a pretty high level for a long time.
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We seemed to lose our energy. They were more aggressive and the team that's more aggressive is going to get the loose balls, get the calls and have things fall their way.
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We've been known in the league that we played the best zone defense, when I was in Minnesota, ... In one day, I can tell you that we're going to be a much better zone defensive team than we were in Minnesota.
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The defense turned it up, no question. Offensively, we turned things up. ... It was at both ends. That's why this has been a championship team. It was a fun game to watch. I'm sure the people at TNT got their money's worth.
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We moved the ball well, had 35 assists, 12 turnovers and rebounded the ball well. We had a good overall performance.
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When we play zone and those guys put their arms out, you don't see anything,
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When we play as a whole, how we're supposed to play, we're very efficient, and everyone plays extremely well.
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When we needed to make plays down the stretch, we made plays. When we needed to make shots, we made shots.
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When I watch film, they played zone, ... They just didn't call it zone.
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We've played 37 games and different guys lead us over different parts of the game and play unselfish...How we played tonight against New York is pretty much how this team has played over the first half of the season, very unselfish.