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
chance coaches five four good talking three vote voted whether
I think from talking to a lot of coaches, I'd say there's a pretty good chance of three going and a possibility of four. Just from talking to coaches. But you've had a lot of coaches say they would vote for five. Whether five could make it would be tough. Even if four makes it -- even three -- when you don't have any of them voted in by the fans, that's pretty unbelievable.
I still think he's very talented. He could play 12 or 13 years in our league.
came decision financial gonna
I still think he's very skilled. He could play 12 or 13 years in our league. He's a serviceable player. But it came down to we're gonna have to make a financial decision for the future.
guys win
I thought offensively we were very anxious. I told our guys that offensively we wanted to do it too quick. We wanted to win big right away.
ability allen good job missed nice ray shots
I thought he missed some shots, but he made plays. Sometimes I look at a player's ability to get good shots and he got good shots. I thought he also did a nice job on Ray Allen .
maybe rip
Maybe Rip doesn't want to play for me anymore. I don't know.
control gain lost second
We had control. We lost that control and couldn't gain it back in the second half.
tough
We made him take a lot of tough shots.
great league plays team teams
We have a team that plays on the edge. You have to have that. All the great teams in this league have been like that.
area defended kicked point soft
We have not defended how we need to defend. We've been too soft on the ball. ... They kicked out butts every which way. I would like to point to one area and say that we did something well, but we didn't.
care happens hope mouth shut
Usually when you want something, usually you keep your mouth shut and hope that it happens and take care of business. That's how it usually goes.
ability aggressive hard strength team whatever
Usually, whatever team is aggressive is going to have success. I thought they were more aggressive. Our strength is our ability to play hard and be aggressive, and when a team does that better than you do, you're going to struggle.
both confidence defense feed scoring
We have a lot of confidence in our defense and when you're scoring offensively, they both feed off of each other.
both confidence ends players score shows stops
We can still get stops and we can score 67 in a half, ... That shows the players that they can get it done at both ends of the floor, which is going to be big for their confidence as we go through the season.