Mike Fratello
Mike Fratello
Michael Robert "Mike" Fratellois an American sports broadcaster and a professional basketball coach. Currently, Fratello is the analyst for Brooklyn Nets broadcasts on the YES Network and for nationally televised games on TNT. He previously coached the Atlanta Hawks, Cleveland Cavaliers, and Memphis Grizzlies of the NBA, served as NBC's lead analyst, and was also the head coach of the Ukraine national basketball team...
ProfessionCoach
Date of Birth24 February 1947
CityHackensack, NJ
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It would be good for us to try and keep playing good basketball and see if it is possible for us to start out a playoff series at home. That would be very significant.
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I've tried to keep practice to 40 or 45 minutes and work on one or two things. It's showing in our defensive effort. I'd just like for us to go into the playoffs executing well.
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They're a deep team, a very talented team. It's nice to have that kind of personnel.
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They're missing three starters, and they played a great game. They played bigger than we did. They worked harder than we did. They deserved to win. They executed better.
lasted nice
It's nice to know I've lasted that long. And hopefully, we'll be around a lot longer.
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They'll leave (the cast) on for about a week, take it off, look at it, and evaluate based on how much swelling there is.
discomfort
It is what it is. There was some discomfort there, so I'm concerned.
allow both broke execution game number plays ran teams
The number of fouls by both teams didn't allow the game to have much of a flow. It broke up runs. ... But then our execution got much better. We ran plays better.
admire grueling hard season
It's been a grueling season for them, and I admire how hard they are still playing.
focusing score shown teams
Teams are focusing on him. And Pau has shown he can do more than score the ball.
badly felt help team
I feel badly that I didn't help our team enough down the stretch. I put Chucky in the corner, and he was set up to be trapped. It was my fault. I felt badly that I didn't help them out as well as I could.
badly best great people played
I feel badly for our fans, our owner, the people upstairs. Unfortunately, we didn't play our best basketball, and they played great basketball.
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It was a big shot by Eddie. We became more aggressive in the second half taking the ball to the basket. As a result, we got to the free throw line and made enough of them to hang on and get the win.
critical determined game gave lead second
The game was determined in the second quarter. We had a 19-point lead then we had some critical turnovers that gave them energy.