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
affection affinity last league liking summers type
He has an affinity for the 'everyman' type of player, ... He's been here the last two summers working out with summer league players. It's something he has a liking for.
career hurt sit
He desperately wanted to play. This is what you play your career for. I know it really hurt him to sit out the other night.
favorite hard played players work
He was one of my favorite players to work with because of how hard he played and the things he does on the court.
feels game good hoping tough wants
He wants to play. It's a significant situation. It's day to day, but it's one of those things that's tough to gauge. We're hoping he feels good enough for Game 6, but we don't know. We'll have to see.
defensive energy gave start
He wanted to give it a try, and he really gave us some defensive energy to start the third, which was big.
both ends floor good
He did some good things. We have to keep working him on both ends of the floor with what we do.
camp great locker minutes played terrific training
He just wasn't able to get enough minutes for us to keep him here. He played well and had a great training camp and was terrific in the locker room. It's just one of those timing-type things.
calm cut half hopeful move needs
He just wasn't able to cut on it and move the way he needs to. We are just hopeful that with another day and a half of rest, it'll calm down and he'll be able to play.
came decided move struggling
He (Jackson) tried, but he was struggling to move out there. When he came out, we just decided he couldn't go anymore.
adversity bad both ends felt guy himself respond strong
Harrison felt bad about the suspension. I thought he atoned himself in a very strong way with his play at both ends of the court. That's what you want to see, a guy respond to adversity when things aren't going well all the time.
push time
He is doing better, but it's not the right time to push it.
games hurt johnson last played
He hurt us the last two games and we did a lot of different things on him defensively. Johnson played great.
anybody breath certainly crossed fingers guy hold hurt next ok time
He hurt it at the end when he got that put-back, so we'll hold our breath and keep our fingers crossed that he'll be OK (on Thursday) and the next day. He's going to be sore, we know that, but if anybody will play hurt, he's certainly a guy who's done it time after time.
bill checked clean health missed past practice situations totally trade trouble
He had a clean bill of health when the trade was made and all his past situations were checked out. The one thing he had trouble with was his back, but he hasn't missed any practice time, and that's a totally isolated, different situation.