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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Yesterday was a great practice with guys who came back like Johnny (Salmons) who was very good yesterday, and Kyle (Korver) and Andre (Iguodala). They uplifted the practice with the guys who are here trying to make a team. Everybody played pretty well. It was a great practice yesterday,
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We have some guys trying to make the team, anyway, so it gives them other opportunities I'm sure they're looking forward to.
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We had a lot of guys step up when (Iverson) went out. This was not a game of stats. This was about our guys going out there and just trying to play. Everyone had a part in winning this game.
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We had a lot of guys step up when A.I. went down. It was about trying to play and perform.
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It's us trying to stay together, which we will, and to keep working to figuring out how to win games. There are a lot of things we've got to work on.
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It's always easy when you get beat to beat ourselves up. We're going to keep trying, keep working.
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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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We've talked about it before, of when you get beat, not giving up on the things you're trying to do.
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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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They're just fighting to get a second seed. We're trying to get a seed so it means a lot more to us to go out there and play the way we've been playing the last few games.
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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.
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You're kind of watching the game, watching the score up there, trying to see what this team is doing, and then you're watching your team, and your team is trying to stay focused.
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I think after a while, after we start missing the easy shots, I think we start pressing a little bit and trying to make up for the easy shots that we missed and we just continued to miss. At one point I remember looking at the clock when we had 33 points and I don't remember the next time we scored. Then, the same thing happened in the third quarter when we just could not make a shot.
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He's a very versatile player that can play the one, two or three positions. You're trying to put the ball in his hands and allow Allen to come up and make a play.