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...
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The way we're going to play without Allen Iverson is the way we played tonight. When you have Allen, you can put the ball in his hands a little bit more. When we do not have him, you have to spread it around and hope you get three or four guys who can score.
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When you have an Allen Iverson, you can put the ball in his hands when you're struggling. When you don't you have to spread it around a little bit and hopefully get three or four guys who are going to score.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
You have to try and find a way to do it.
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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.
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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.
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They shoot 58 percent, that's pretty uh, that's not the best defense you can play, let's put it that way. I'm certainly not happy.
sam starting
Sam is working his way back in the lineup. I don't know when. He will be back starting at some point. I just want him to be consistent; I want him to be aggressive, that's all. It has something to do with Steven; it has something to do with us as a team.
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You saw the reason why they have the record they have ? they do a lot of little things.
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You saw the reason they have the record they have. They do a lot of little things. I thought our defense was good; I thought we rebounded the ball well, but we had little timely turnovers and they would always get the ball in the person's hands they wanted, which was Rip at the right time, and he would end up with a shot.