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
defense games guys night offense relying teaching three win
We have too many breakdowns. I think that we have to go back to the one, two, three of defense rotations, and getting guys in different positions. The only way that you can win games if you are relying on your offense night in and night out, is you have to outscore teams. We're not going to outscore teams, so our defense has to go back to the fundamentals of teaching positions.
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We can't have games like San Antonio and Chicago anymore. That's not going to cut it. We have to be on the floor competing night in and night out.
allen feels night playing tomorrow waiting
I don't think Allen is coming. He's not playing tomorrow night and we're still waiting to see how he feels for Sunday. It doesn't look good.
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Chris is very capable of taking our troops, as all our guys are. Chris is our veteran. He's been around certain situations a while, so he understands about guys getting hurt and how to help other players. (Sunday) night was a perfect example of Chris leading us.
nights shoots
You are not going to have too many nights where he shoots like that. We were very fortunate.
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It?s not over yet, and we and I will keep going and see if we can put that unit together and get enough guys to win a game tomorrow night against Boston and then go into Chicago and win on Saturday.
andre ball guys hands night offense
Not everyone can be a hitter, or shooter, or part of an offense every night. There are some guys that have to be different things at different times and sometimes Andre is that guy. Certainly, we'd like to put the ball in his hands a little more.
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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.
ball came floor game knew last night overtime played pushing running
They knew we played an overtime game last night. They came out pushing the ball and running the floor to keep us on our heels. That game was embarrassing for me and it was embarrassing for the players. It was an embarrassing loss.
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This game was a quality game for us because Memphis is a quality team. The other night I challenged our team on the defensive end and our defense was great tonight.
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I thought our defense stayed pat the whole game, ... Kobe's a great player, but some nights the ball doesn't go in the basket. He just had an off night.
came felt game last night ok symptoms
He had some flu-like symptoms last night. He just came to the game and felt OK to play. It got worse.
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We've got to work a little harder, do the things that we did last night in terms of working and putting the effort out there and we'll be fine.
ball hands tried
We tried to put the ball in Chris' hands a lot more, especially down the stretch.