Jeff Malone
Jeff Malone
Jeffrey Nigel Maloneis a retired American professional basketball player. He played college basketball at Mississippi State University, and is mostly known for his time with the Washington Bulletsof the NBA, where he was an NBA All-Star twice, playing the shooting guard position. He also played for the Utah Jazz, Philadelphia 76ers, and Miami Heat...
ProfessionBasketball Player
Date of Birth28 June 1961
apartment call gets goes player talk team watching worry
I've been watching that for a while. Another player on another team gets called and it goes to guys' egos. 'How'd he get a call-up?' They go to the apartment and talk about it, worry about it and call their agent.
coach locker pull song watch
If I pull this off and get in the playoffs, I should get Coach of the Year. I'm going to play that 'Rocky' song in the locker room. We're going to watch 'Hoosiers,' and 'Rudy.' We're going to be scrappy.
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The battle is trying to make these guys believe you're trying to make them better, not just being hard on them. I wish everyone on this level got a five-day contract ? not a 10-day ? to go up and see how beautiful it is and appreciate it. You have to earn it. Some guys want to take shortcuts. You have to beg them to play hard, to compete.
court guys won yelling
I had some guys yelling at me on the court tonight. We joked about it afterwards. I like that. Sometimes, these guys are too nice. I think we need a little more fire. If we had that all year, I think we would've won 25 games.
good hear
Dorrell Wright, he's a young guy. I hear he's a good defender.
count guys lane
You can't count on just one person. We need different guys to get in the lane and make plays. It's going to have to be everybody.
charter coaches coming concerned excited flying guys hope nba playing problems receptive run side time understand
You hope these guys understand that they're coming down because the coaches want them to get playing time and want them to develop. I hope they're receptive to it, but we may run into some problems with guys feeling, 'Hey, man, I was in the NBA on the charter flights. Now, I'm flying commercial.' That's the one side that we can be concerned about, but I'm excited about it as a coach.
heart knew start
There's not enough heart on this team. I knew it was going to come to this even when we were winning. We have to start over.
approach came game hit means
The way we came out was key. How you approach the game means something. We hit them before they hit us.
ball
I wanted to get more athletic. We need to get back to defending, and I really want to get the ball down the court. We really need to do that more.
andre bring case empty left point
I wanted to bring in another point guard, just in case Andre would get called up. I didn't want to be left empty handed.
experience hard
It's hard to get better just in practice. There's nothing like the experience of the game.
against borderline kids nba people test tough trying
When we have these camps, one thing we're trying to do is give people opportunities. We want to test these kids against some high-level, borderline NBA players. It's a tough scenario.
contacts guys instead reach
I'll probably reach out to those guys this week. I like to know things instead of just speculating. I'll make some contacts with those guys.