Rick Carlisle
Rick Carlisle
Richard Preston "Rick" Carlisleis the head coach of the Dallas Mavericks of the National Basketball Association. He has also served as head coach of the Indiana Pacers and Detroit Pistons and was previously a player in the NBA. He is also one of only 11 people to win an NBA championship both as a player and as a coach...
ProfessionCoach
Date of Birth27 October 1959
CityOgdensburg, NY
foul gets hope mixed open people trouble
Our foul trouble made it tough. (Bryant) gets you into foul trouble, and double-teams get other people open shots. We mixed a lot of different things and some were effective. Other times, you just have to hope he misses.
everywhere feet game looked stuck took
They took the game to us. It just looked like they were everywhere and our feet were stuck in the mud.
hard
They're working hard to try to get it right.
adjustment american-coach basketball consistent defense defensive style team toughness
They've become a very strong-willed team. Their defensive toughness is in evidence. They're more consistent on defense and in their rebounding. This is an adjustment in their style that they were playing. They were more of a free-flowing team and that has changed.
chance crossed happy hit jack last shot stepped switched
They switched everything and got crossed up. I was real happy Jack got a chance to hit the game-winning shot after he stepped up so courageously in the last game, but couldn't get it to go down.
played
They played like they have something to play for.
error game great margin played
They played great and we didn't give them much of a game tonight. Our margin for error is slim. We can't have any slippage. Our rebounding was a disappointment. We've got to do better.
faces
They outworked us and rubbed our faces in it too and they should have,
again game momentum ourselves paint points position strong tells third time
They got into the paint time and time again in the third quarter, and that was the story of how the game went. . . . You give up 29 points in the third and that tells you the momentum of the game, because we had put ourselves in a strong position before that.
action both expect multiple playing
They're both probably going to be playing multiple positions, so that can also make it tricky. But I expect both of them to be into the action pretty quickly.
confidence positive
They're going to play, and for us to win, they're going to have to have a positive impact. We have a lot of confidence that they can.
good job team
They're a good team that's going to do a good job in those situations. We probably could have executed better.
concerned
There's a lot of little things going on in there. He's doing better, but he got wrenched pretty good. It's something to be concerned about.
became bit came chance entire factor gave hang hope kevin miss played playing possession
(Assistant coach) Kevin O'Neil came up with the idea of playing some zone. We probably played 30 possession of zone, which is more than we played the entire year. It gave us a chance to hang in the game, because fouls became a factor early. With zone, a little bit of it is pot-luck. You have to hope they miss some shots.