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 offensive phoenix players push team
I thought that we did a pretty good job in not getting caught up in the way Phoenix played. We don't have the offensive players that they have. Any team can get caught in the way they push the ball.
less minutes start trying
I think less minutes is something that we're going to start trying to do now.
aggressive bit change coming defense early felt help maybe needed
Johnny, as of late, has been coming in early anyway, so I just felt we needed a little bit of change maybe to help our aggressive defense from the beginning.
caught good job phoenix
I thought we did a pretty good job of not getting caught up in the way Phoenix plays.
bit defensive
I think we're getting a little bit better on the defensive end. That's where we're going to make our move.
couple games last period satisfying
It's satisfying to play that way, period ... . The last couple of games were a benefit.
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 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.
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.
You have to try and find a way to do it.
balance continued feeling game good great needed tonight win
We just needed to win a game to get back to feeling good about ourselves, and I thought tonight was a great way to do it. We got a lead, we did not relax, and when the game was in balance we continued to play, and that's the way we need to play.
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.
bang bit dive guy hustle rebound
You get a guy who can bang a little bit, rebound a little bit, dive on the floor. You got a hustle guy who does a little bit of everything.
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.