Lawrence Frank
Lawrence Frank
Lawrence Adam Frank is an American professional basketball coach who is currently working as the Executive Vice President of Basketball Operations for the Los Angeles Clippers of the National Basketball Association. He formerly served as head coach of the Detroit Pistons and the Nets, and has been an assistant coach for the Boston Celtics and the Nets...
ProfessionCoach
Date of Birth23 August 1970
healthy opponent ready trying whoever
We're just trying to get healthy so that whoever our first-round opponent is we're ready to roll.
care great job together trying
I think the organization's done a great job of trying to put together a first-class performance, ... We have to take care of our part.
cut pass throw trying
With the turnovers, trying to throw a backdoor pass or one or two in transition, you can live with those. It's the unforced ones you want to cut down.
cut pass throw trying
With the turnovers, trying to throw a back-door pass or one or two in transition, you can live with those. It's the unforced ones you want to cut down.
guys picture ready trying
The big picture is we're trying to get ready for the playoffs. You want to keep guys healthy.
beyond guy hardest jason leader player selfless team unselfish wants worker
Those things are beyond our control; we know on our team what he means. Jason makes this whole thing work. He's the pied piper. As a coach, he's unbelievable to have - a leader who is your most unselfish player and your hardest worker ... The guy is selfless and he really wants to win.
defensive high starts
When we play at a high level, it starts on the defensive end.
best help selfless takes team whatever
Vince is such a selfless guy. He'll do whatever it takes to help the team win. It's never about Vince. It's about what's best for the team.
bench gave guys huge minutes played win
We went out to win the game. Our bench guys played big minutes and gave us a huge lift.
ask continue guys playing since unfair
Right now it probably would be unfair to him and we kind of want to continue to give other guys an opportunity. It would be a lot to ask of him after not playing since January.
good jump
Let's not just all jump in and say: What's up with Vince Carter? He had a day, you know? You've got to take the good with the bad.
players team
There are no excuses. We've got enough players on our team to play better than that.
good guys helps people
I think morale-wise it's big. More guys were involved, helps probably more people feel good about themselves.
break defense defensive forcing four good left played seconds shoot shots since three
It hasn't been since the (All-Star) break where we were able to come out and do what we did to make it 8-0, and it started on the defensive end. We played really good defense in the first half, forcing them to shoot some shots with just three or four seconds left on the shot clock.