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
came defense floor game guys helped playing tried turned
They just controlling the game and our defense was not that good. Everyone that we had out on the floor was not playing defense. I tried to insert some guys that were going to give us a little energy, give us a little defense and they turned the game around. Those guys that I put in there helped us get back in the game. Everyone that came in the game had a part in the victory.
ball hands tried
We tried to put the ball in Chris' hands a lot more, especially down the stretch.
beginning good knowing last played run tried
They tried to run us from the beginning knowing that we played last night. They did a good job. We did get back into it late, but were never really a threat.
ball drive penalty tried
That?s what we tried to do its drive the ball and get into the penalty and that?s what we did.
allen bad chris continue fell few injuries numerous playing playoff race reasons tried
One of the reasons why they were not going to play was that while we were in the playoff race Chris (Webber) and Allen (Iverson) were playing with a few injuries and they tried to continue to play. Then, once we fell out of the playoff race - it got a little tougher. Chris (Webber) had a bad back, Allen (Iverson) was playing with numerous injuries and once we were out of the race - there was no reason for them to play.
man spread
We're going to spread it around a little bit. We're not going to be a one-man, two-man team.
allen chris games guys trying win
We have to get other guys involved. We're not just trying to win games with Allen and Chris doing all the scoring.
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When he got hurt in Memphis he was playing at a high level in the first half. We need him. We need him out there. We need his energy and certainly we need the way he?s capable of putting points on the board.
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We want him to get offensive opportunities - no question. I think that he can get more opportunities in running the floor, getting early post up which he did. Tonight was a little unusual where he had more than a number of attempts at dunking the basketball going to the rim so I think that's a little bit unusual.
consistency record
We're in that phase. It's been 50 games. We should have some consistency by now. But we're not there. We just haven't put it together. That's why we have the record we have.
against climbing team uphill
We started out so poorly. You can't do that against a team like Dallas. We were climbing uphill the whole game.
beaten coming guys home knew playing team until
We knew we were coming in here playing a team that had just beaten us on our own home court. I told our guys that until we are mathematically out of this we need to keep up the effort.
came game games san team
We know how these games are. We've been on the other side. We had games we thought we won, and the other team came back. San Antonio had the game won.
add best coach couple exception floor guys players playing rather seen strengths
We have players we haven?t actually seen out on the floor, with the exception of a couple guys playing now, ... But I want to see the players out on the floor. We can always say we want to add this, add that, but to actually see the players out on the floor once they get there, in person so I can see their strengths and weaknesses, I think that?s the best thing to do rather than say, ?Let?s go get this, get that.? Every coach can say that at some point.