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
eddie helped hot hung needed plays
We hung on down the stretch. We were able to make big plays. Eddie got hot in one stretch, and Chucky and Pau made plays that helped us get a much needed win.
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.
ball found rode
We rode (Miller) tonight. He was superb out there. We found him, got him the ball and he was magnificent.
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We thought it was the best thing for us to do. Let them have the opportunity to get back home, straighten out their personal lives if there is anything that has to be done and get them away from the heavy concentration on basketball so they can come back with a clean slate.
We just have to see how long it takes.
guard line
We didn't guard him (Davis), we just fouled him is what we did. We put him on the line 20 times.
dribble focused keeping parker stop
We focused on keeping Parker away from the rim, but we couldn't stop his dribble penetration. He did the same stuff, and he was very good.
answered awhile eddie fourth hoops hot
We just executed a lot better than we did in the opener. Eddie (Jones) was hot for awhile and Pau answered some big hoops when we had to have them in the fourth quarter.
defensive dominated nine
We just had a continuation of defensive breakdowns. We had nine assists in the game, and that's not good. They really dominated the series.
defensive
We just had a continuation of defensive breakdowns.
factor forcing good helped job lead open second
We did a good job of forcing turnovers and that was a big factor in the game. That helped us open a lead in the second quarter.
bad cut except good job lead minnesota quarter stretch tonight
We've been in a stretch where we would have one good quarter and then one bad quarter. Except for one stretch where Minnesota cut the lead in the fourth, I thought we did a much better job tonight than we've been doing lately.
happy kept
I was happy with the way we kept our concentration.
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I thought New Jersey was very good. They were very good in the first half, and we began giving effort in the third quarter. They did everything well. On offense they executed. On offense we had a tough time getting good looks at the basket, and making shots. They were very well prepared, and they came out and played very well.