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
almost free question shot silly team
There is no question we have been fouling too much. We have silly fouls, but then I see the other team fouling like that and not being called. (Anthony) shot 21 free throws. He almost doubled our whole team.
ball floor main stay ways
We have to find other ways to use Tyson. The main thing is he has to find ways to stay on the floor by not fouling. We've got to get him the ball and ... let him do some different things.
fast missed poor
We were too fast on offense, our spacing was poor and we missed some shots.
blow body both given jump ready win
We'd like to come out and win the first quarter. Both games, they've given us a body blow right off the jump and we just haven't been ready enough.
blocked defense hang heads open picked shots
We responded particularly well tonight. When things didn't go our way, we didn't go into one of our tremendously long droughts and hang our heads and look defeated. We did the reverse. We picked it up on defense and blocked some shots and got out in the open floor.
fact ready time
I know for a fact Shaq is going to be ready for this time of year.
best carries clean continues fair games looking pushed series slate sort start tape unless
I really don't think so. Each one of these games has the best referees. I don't think too much carries over, unless this sort of continues on and the series got pushed on. I know the referees are working very hard. They're looking at tape and things. They also want to be very fair and start each game with a clean slate and go from there.
awful basket close cost free game hands happened near odd plays
It has happened to us so many times this season. We didn't make our free throws, and there were an awful lot of odd plays that were right in our hands near the basket but couldn't come up with them. Those will cost you in a close game like this.
dust magic remember took
I just sprinkled the magic dust on them and they took off. I don't remember what I said.
business deal move realize tough
I realize this is a tough business to be in and things don't always go the way you want them to go, ... When that happens, you deal with it and move on.
ended putting second
But in the second half, they were putting them in and they ended it pretty quickly.
became both couple ends guys quarter stopped third
In the third quarter we got up on those guys and made them penetrate. We were there to take the charge. When things stopped going our way for just a couple of minutes, that all stopped as well. We became very tentative on both ends of the floor.
eight last played rotation teams
In the last two years, we've played a lot of guys. A lot of teams are shortening up their rotation right now and going eight or nine. We don't have that kind of team yet.
bus came gave missed second until
I gave it some thought until he missed the first bus and came on the second bus, and the thought was over. That was the end of that thought.