Mike Woodson
Mike Woodson
Michael Dean "Mike" Woodsonis a former American basketball player and coach who currently serves as an assistant coach for the Los Angeles Clippers of the NBA...
ProfessionBasketball Player
Date of Birth24 March 1958
CityIndianapolis, IN
came fourth quarters responsibility third
We were embarrassed in the first half. I've got to take responsibility for our play in the first half. It was awful, unacceptable. We came back in the third and fourth quarters and competed.
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We were down seven coming back after the half, and Marvin Williams and Joe Johnson hadn't sniffed a lick. You figure if you got those two guys going we've got a legitimate shot, but we just fell in the tank in the third quarter.
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You can't compare. Because Chris is a point guard and Marvin is a 3, sometimes he plays 4. They're totally different games. Chris has played a lot more minutes than Marvin has played, so therefore his numbers are a lot better than what Marvin's are. Eventually Marvin's numbers will go the other way.
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There are a lot of guys who are probably going to hate me in the next few weeks, ... Mostly because we're going to work harder than these guys ever have. We're going to work 10 times harder than we did last year because we know we have that much more work to do.
game second trim
We had 22 turnovers in our first game and 17 in our second and we have to trim that back to 15 or 13,
ball neither nights played shot team
Neither team played much defense. They shot the ball really well, and we were red-hot as well, so those nights sometimes happen.
busting fun guys locker
It's all about those guys in the locker room. They've been busting their butts. It's fun winning.
handle joe puts versatile
It puts more on everybody, but Joe is versatile enough that he'll handle the situation.
both games goes mind played playoff
It's playoff time. I don't mind games like that, if it goes both ways. We played hard, we battled and you got to like games like that.
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It's tough when your best player can't hit shots. And then we tanked in the third quarter.
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That's terrible. We don't have any problems with our young guys that are out of the ordinary. None of our guys are bad kids and everybody on this team comes to work every day ready to go. . . . Our camp is just fine. As the head coach, I've got everything under control.
dealing funny
That's the funny thing when you're dealing with young guys, 19-year-olds,
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I've got to help them get over the hump somehow. We're right there ... and we threw the ball away three of the next four possessions. You're not going to beat teams like that.
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No matter who we play or who is in uniform for us, they have competed. I tip my hat to my guys because they never quit. That's the sign of a team that is still hungry, even though we're not playing for anything.