Maurice Cheeks
Maurice Cheeks
Maurice Edward "Mo" Cheeksis an American retired professional basketball player and currently an assistant coach for the Oklahoma City Thunder of the National Basketball Association. He was the head coach of the Detroit Pistons from June 10, 2013, to February 9, 2014 and has also served as head coach of the Portland Trail Blazers and Philadelphia 76ers...
ProfessionBasketball Player
Date of Birth8 September 1956
CityChicago, IL
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I knew it would be a lot like the last three games we had, and we'd have to win it down the stretch. We had a lot of guys step up when AI went down.
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I knew it was gonna be a tough game. The essence of that game was that they played harder than we did. ... It was our first quarter and third quarter that put us in the hole.
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I knew Randy would be on someone's bench because he's a very good basketball coach. That's not a secret.
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I think NBA players can adapt and certainly Coach K can adapt to NBA players.
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Anything that happens with the team is a reflection of myself. Any coach puts it on his shoulders when a team comes in and beats your team, regardless of whether you lost by one or 20.
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The best part is that we know that we can get better defensively and offensively.
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That is our challenge this year, trying to get him to play consistent night in and night out and not drift and fade away.
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It's been kind of tough for Sam because Steven has been playing well.
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That part of the game is better than the overall game. We'd like our defense to get better for 48 minutes. But I think as the game unfolds and when another team needs a basket, I think our defense gets a little bit better. Certainly if you're going to win games, it has to be better down the stretch.
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That?s what we tried to do its drive the ball and get into the penalty and that?s what we did.
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That's not the best defense you can play. Our defense just has to get better in order for us to win games. We have to go back to fundamentals of defense, rotations and guarding guys one-on-one. You have to want to play defense.
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That's how we got back in the game. We didn't let them get offensive rebounds and we got some turnovers.
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That one hurts. It hurts because we fought our game. We were fighting up hill all game and we finally get it and we are up one, ball out on the side and we gave up a lay-up. I don't mind getting beat, shooting a jump shot, but we gave up a lay-up.
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That game was a prime example of a team effort and a team really trying not to lose a basketball game.