Sam Cassell
Sam Cassell
Samuel James Cassell Sris an American retired professional basketball player and current assistant coach of the Los Angeles Clippers. Drafted 24th overall in the 1993 NBA draft out of Florida State University, Cassell played for eight different teams during his 15-year career. He was selected to the NBA All-Star Game and All-NBA Team once, both in the 2003–04 season. He played the point guard position...
ProfessionBasketball Player
Date of Birth18 November 1969
CityBaltimore, MD
dictated game lost mirror team three win
Everyone on this team has to take a look in the mirror and be accountable for what they do. They dictated the whole game - probably 45 minutes. Down the stretch, we made some plays. It's a win in our column, we had lost three in a row. We'll take it.
allow ball defensive drawing effort harder learned learning lost process team tuesday understand
This (loss) really doesn't sting. But it's a learning process for us. We learned that when we allow a team to play harder than us, this can happen. We understand why we lost this ball game. We had so many defensive lapses. We'll regroup, go back to the drawing board, and come back Tuesday with a better effort than we had tonight.
coming couple days games night ready rest talked took
It was just precaution, nothing major. We've got a couple of games coming up at home, so I talked with Mike, and took the night off to heal. I'll get two days rest and I'll be ready to play Friday.
rookie shots since supposed
I'm just doing what I'm supposed to do. Since I was a rookie I was groomed to make shots down the stretch.
brand culture expect talked
It'll be something brand new to everybody. It's going to be culture shock. I've talked to everybody, talked to them about what I expect from them and what they're going to get from me.
chance guys needed team
This team needed leadership. But you have to want to be led. I get on my guys because we have a chance to be special. To be very special.
corey deny elton
Elton is our horse. No one will deny that. But we need to get Corey back. We need Z back. We need all of our guys.
basketball elton finally games people played taking winning
Elton has always played consistently, but now we're winning basketball games and people are finally taking notice.
chance
We've got a chance to be special. We've got a chance to be very, very special.
carter either great guys late player shot stop
Vince Carter is such a great player that we need two guys to try to stop him. When we got there to try to stop him, we got there too late and he either made the shot or we fouled him.
against hard
There's no vendetta against Minnesota. I just don't like how it ended. There were differences there in the end. But they went on, and I'm going on. There are no hard feelings.
brand credit elton job lead people tend
People tend to give me a lot of credit for the turnaround, but Elton Brand is our horse, as he goes, we go. My job is to put us in the right direction, lead us, get us through what we need to do and I think I've been doing that.
ball easiest fourth game guys last lots minutes quarter three time
Lots of guys don't want the ball in the fourth quarter in the last three minutes of the game. I think that is the easiest time of the game to get the ball. So I try and get the ball and do the things I can do.
somebody work
I'm an All-Star in my mind. You don't have to have somebody tell you that, to be an All-Star. It doesn't work that way.