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
move moved past
I've been over there before. We have to move on. You can't always live in the past of what we did or what we were. The Blazers moved on and I moved on.
good knows maybe moves time
Certainly, he's not as good as A.I. now, but as time moves on, maybe he will. Who knows that?
move team veteran
They had 30 assists and we had 11, and that's not going to work. They look like a veteran team when they move the ball, and we look like a team that has to get better.
looked moved practice ready
He looked healthy. He moved around in practice, so he's ready to go.
ability allen basket bigger deeper drive form looks move player range shoots shots step type
He can move and come off screens. He's a different type player because he has the ability to step back from three-point range and make shots and he has the ability to drive to the basket. He's a bigger Allen (Iverson) with his ability to shoot. He shoots deeper than Allen. His ability to get to the basket is in the same form of Allen because he looks to attack, attack, attack.
anxious driving game good interested running
I'm very anxious to see how he plays. I don't have any second-guessing that he will not play the same. He's been very good at the things he's been doing - driving the ball, running the team. I'm very interested to see him out there in a game situation.
games guys knew last step three win
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.
essence game gonna harder knew played quarter third tough
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.
basketball bench good knew randy
I knew Randy would be on someone's bench because he's a very good basketball coach. That's not a secret.
games overall past phenomenal season taking talked team terms three
It's something that we've talked about this season in terms of (Iverson) being a team leader. The past three games he's been phenomenal from taking over the game to his overall leadership.
basketball game leader means sharing taking talked terms three
It's something we talked about in this new season; to do different things in terms of being a leader out on the floor. That means sharing the basketball and taking over the game when he has to. These three games, he has been phenomenal.
game higher raise
Everyone had to raise their game a little higher and I thought everyone did.
best
The best part is that we know that we can get better defensively and offensively.
challenge consistent drift fade night trying
That is our challenge this year, trying to get him to play consistent night in and night out and not drift and fade away.