Mo Cheeks
Mo 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...
caught good job phoenix
I thought we did a pretty good job of not getting caught up in the way Phoenix plays.
allen hurt point
If Allen is hurt to the point where he can't play, you know he's really, really hurt.
change endure somehow
We just have to endure it and somehow find a way to change it.
bit guys saw tonight
What you saw tonight was a little bit of our future, young guys who can make plays.
shots
He made some shots that probably only he can make.
allen anytime chris coming games guys huge plus realizing rest tough
Anytime you can rest Allen and Chris it's big, realizing how many games we have coming up this week. Those are tough games, and anytime you get to rest those guys is a huge plus for us.
allen ball defensive game good offensive phase pick shared team
I just thought that everyone had to pick up every phase of our game because Allen wasn't playing. We did that on the offensive end and the defensive end. We shared the ball and we did a lot of good things team wise.
few last problem
His back has been a problem for the last few games.
guys knew leaders-and-leadership together utilize
I knew I shouldn't have said that. We've got guys who are leaders, and you've got to utilize those guys no, I have no thought that they're not together at all.
biggest compliment compliments guard guys looking love pass people point score
I think all his guys love to play with him. I think that's the biggest compliment a point guard can have is that they love to play with him because they know he can score the ball, but he's always looking to pass to other people and I think that's one of the biggest compliments you can have.
allen ball chris cut guys hands help move tonight utilize
The ball will be in Chris' hands a lot, and guys will have to cut and move off him. Allen is a player, a guy who can go get his own shot; tonight we have to utilize Chris a lot to help get guys their shots.
allen chris continued drive fourth guys jump late needed penalty score shots
Down the stretch, when we needed those two guys to score the points, that's what they did. We got into the penalty and Allen continued to drive the ball, and Chris had wide-open jump shots because Allen continued to drive the ball, and that's what those guys have to do late in the fourth quarter.
felt
At halftime, we were down and I felt like we had to will this one. We had to go and get it; I think it was our will that got us back in the game.
focusing forget happened move past season start talked trying
It's something we talked about where we could start over and kind of forget about the things that happened the first half, and just start new. That's what we've been focusing on, trying to look at this as a new season and just move past the old one.