Jerry Stackhouse
Jerry Stackhouse
Jerry Darnell Stackhouseis an American retired professional basketball player who played 18 seasons in the National Basketball Associationand currently works as an assistant coach for the Toronto Raptors. He has also worked as an NBA TV analyst...
ProfessionBasketball Player
Date of Birth5 November 1974
CityKinston, NC
good harder nba plays team test
That team plays hard. You're not going to find any team in the NBA that plays harder than them. It was a good test for us.
bruce himself letting skin
Dirk wasn't himself in letting Bruce Bowen kind of get under his skin a little bit. He's better than that. We're better than that.
ball game liked
It was for JT if we could get him the ball because of the game he was having, or we would have liked Dirk to take the shot.
defense good
It was some good defense and some good fortune. We'll take them both.
couple final games guys happy leave resting season string teams time
It's a win, and you're happy with it and leave it at that. It makes the final couple of games of the season fun. They have something to play for, and we have something to play for. Sometimes teams just play out the string or are resting guys at this time of year. We're going to have something to chase.
advantage best close game last playoffs shoot throughout within year
It's a game within the game. We don't want to be close and all of the sudden, play as well as we did last year and end up with the No. 4 seed. So why not try to shoot for the best and have the advantage throughout the playoffs if you can?
bad knew
Everyone responded. We knew it was just a bad first half.
afloat found game good half huge job josh kept second ways
They did a good job on him early, but as the game went on we found ways to get him some shots. Josh Howard kept us afloat and then Dirk was huge in the second half and down the stretch.
couple groin help hold injuries sliding tights wear
They've really become important to me. I've had a couple groin injuries and they help me get comfortable. I wear thigh sleeves, too, and the tights also help keep them from sliding down my legs. They just hold everything together.
arrived behind
It's all positive. It's getting there. I don't look at it as if I've arrived and it's all behind me. I'm still cognizant of it.
chances coming everybody five guys healthy obviously ready run stretch takes
It only takes five to play, but obviously we want to get everybody back healthy and ready for the stretch run and for the playoffs. We don't want to take our chances with guys coming in and out. We've just got to with what we have. We know we have enough to get it done.
best conference great league team western
It's great to say we're the best team in the Western Conference at the All-Star break. What we'd really like to say is we're the best team in the Western Conference at the end of the season, and the best team in the league in June.
deliver depth good guys night pressure score speaks
It speaks to the depth of our team. Guys are going to have off nights. Dirk's going to deliver more often than not, but it's good that he doesn't feel pressure every night to score 25 or 30 points.
good held key offensive work
They got off to a pretty good start, and we were pretty much sleepwalking through the first half. Really the key was our rebounding and getting them to work on the offensive end. We started to get some second-chance opportunities, and we held them to one shot.