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
carry consistent high point stretch superstar team turn
We're going through this stretch where every team has a superstar that can carry a team. The consistent thing is that, at some point in the game, we turn it on at an unbelievably high level.
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.
break fast grind open opportunity points strengths team
One of the strengths of this team is we grind it defensively but we get fast break points. We have the opportunity to get points in the open floor.
great points shots team volume
When you play great ones, it's the team assignment. You have to make him a volume scorer. You can't let him get 30 points on 18 shots. What you want to is keep him out of the free-throw line, make him take a lot of shots if you can.
against ben coached conference good guy job playing points seen volume western
I told Ben after, I had been in the Western Conference for a lot of years and I have coached against Dirk many times. I don't think I had seen as good a job of playing a guy one-on-one as that. Dirk made some shots, but he really had to work. We wanted to make him a volume scorer, and 25 points on 23 shots, that's pretty good.
dallas hold points score
We're going to have to score more points because Dallas is going to score. We're not going to be able to hold Dallas to 70-something points. It's just not going to happen.
defense hold milwaukee points score staple team
When you take a team like Milwaukee that can really score and you hold them to 74 points your team defense is doing something. That's the staple of our team.
against earn game good great guys hopefully job limited main michael nice points shots taking volume
Were not going to keep Michael at 11 or 14 points. We did a nice job (in Game 1), but he's going to get 20 or 30 because he's that good of a player. What we've got to do is make him earn those and make him be a volume scorer. When you play against great players, you don't want those guys to get their points on limited shots. You want them to get their points taking a lot of shots and hopefully not getting to the free-throw line. That has to be our main focus.
free guard point talk throws
You talk about a point guard that can do everything -- that's Chauncey. He can make the 3, he can pass, he can defend, he makes free throws and he scores.
bring checked energy game point
I think we kind of checked out at that point and thought the game was over. They have a lot of young players, and what they bring you is enthusiasm, energy and they (don't) know any better.
carry change defense fourth points quarter score stretch
I think what we can do now is we can change our personality. Defense can carry us at times. But I thought in the fourth quarter, our offense, we executed. To score 28 points down the stretch in the fourth quarter that's pretty impressive.
anytime guy points score
Anytime you got a guy that can score 50 points in this league, you know he can score.
ben game goes guys happen instead league looked might nine points rebounds rip seems six
I looked back at that. What always seems to happen is, the guys will play well, and they'll have one stinker game that week. They'll have one game where Chauncey might have 11 points, six assists. Or Ben might get nine rebounds instead of 18. Rip might have 13 points instead of 23. And in this league so much, it goes down to statistics.
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.