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
We don't take anything for granted. It's been that kind of season.
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We dug ourselves into a hole and spent the rest of the game trying to dig ourselves out. We managed to give ourselves a chance in the second half, but the Wizards were able to put together a few scoring runs, and we couldn't stop them.
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We dug a hole and we were trying to dig our way out (of) the hole the rest of the game. It's frustrating because we did have some opportunities early. Unfortunately our undoing was the first quarter.
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We played really hard, really together. It's hard to dig yourself out of that big of a hole.
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We had a lot of good looks, we just didn't hit the shots.
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We've gotten to the point where we understand that we're a veteran team that has to play to our strengths. We have to be efficient and have a certain toughness about us. We've shown a lot of those qualities over the last week.
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We've had great execution in the last two games; we won one and lost another. These types of one-possession games come in waves. The way our team is set up, we have players that can make plays.
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We've moved on. It's unfortunate. But we're just trying to win without him.
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We have to hope Pollard is feeling better and we're going to have to depend on guys like David (Harrison) and Austin and Jeff (Foster) to pull through and we're going to have to find scoring as a team. Every team goes through their fair share of problems. We're just going to have to play through this.
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We have to help him get into some more positions where he doesn't have to use his off-arm to get open. We have to adjust. He's going to have to adjust a little bit. We've got to have him on the floor. We're not going to be able to win the series with him playing 31 minutes a game. There's just no way.
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We're not a very good basketball team right now. This was very disappointing. We couldn't hit a bull in the butt with a bass fiddle. The ball not going in in the third was key.
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We're not a very good basketball team right now. This was very disappointing.
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That's a tough one. It was a tough way to get a lead then lose it. They kept playing. They kept coming. I thought we tried. We just didn't capitalize on our opportunities.
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That's a tough one, a tough one to lose. It's too bad, the guys really fought hard. If we had gotten a couple more stops the last couple of minutes, it would have been a different story.