Scott Skiles
Scott Skiles
Scott Allen Skilesis an American basketball coach and former player. He most recently served as the head coach of the Orlando Magic. He also coached the Phoenix Suns, Chicago Bulls, and Milwaukee Bucks. A first-round draft pick out of Michigan State University, Skiles played ten seasons as a point guard in the NBA. He holds the NBA record for assists in one game with 30, set in his fifth season in the league and second with Orlando, in which he...
ProfessionCoach
Date of Birth5 March 1964
CityLa Porte, IN
afraid bring good guy guys liked somebody
We liked Stephen. It's just that we wanted to take a look at a big guy also with the 10-days. It's good for them and it's good for our guys to know we're not afraid to bring somebody in and give them a look.
defense driving finally near ourselves picked sleep start third waited
We waited too long to start playing. We kind of sleep-walked through 2-1/2 quarters. Then near the end of the third quarter, we finally started getting aggressive. We started driving the ball, and our defense picked up. We clawed ourselves back into the game.
chip energy half ourselves quarters waited
We waited 2½ quarters before we got any energy going. Once we did, we were able to chip away at it and give ourselves half a chance.
energy quarters waited
We waited 2 1/2 quarters before we got any energy going.
beginning half hard played second tired
We were very, very fortunate. Clearly, we were tired right from the beginning of the game. It wasn't a pretty game. We just played hard in the second half and really battled for it.
behind blocks came directly free league paul tyson
Tyson had the blocks. Two of those blocks were big league blocks, the one from behind and the one directly on Paul when he came down the middle. We were able to make our free throws. It was just a gutsy win.
agent almost compared guys last literally means summer tells tyson until
Tyson didn't do much this summer, from what I've seen, compared to last summer when he was here almost 75 days. It's the old thing where your agent tells you don't do anything until you get a contract, and a lot of guys think that literally means don't do anything. It really means don't play basketball.
basically below home problems record trace
We can trace our problems to basically one thing. Our home record is below par.
throughout trend
We don't want to get into a fouling-type game, which has been our trend throughout the year.
good nba normally
We had a better-than-average NBA effort. But that's not normally good enough for us to win.
couple decent game left seconds shot tie tight
We got it tight there a couple times, kind of left our feet, got a little out of control. But having said that, we got a decent look at a 3-point shot to tie the game with 18 seconds to go. We had our chances.
answer close turned
We got it close and they just turned it on, and we didn't have an answer for it.
game next question regular season
The question we had is what if this was regular season and a back-to-back? You would know before the next game so why does it take so long?
focused relaxed start
We wanted to get off to a better start and we did. We were comfortable out there and relaxed yet focused at the same time.