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
good hold knock minutes position shooting
Malik has had some good minutes lately. He's shooting 49 percent. He doesn't have a lot of attempts, but he's been able to knock down the perimeter shot, hold his position and he's had some good minutes.
hurt jason quiet sort
Jason Williams, sort of in a quiet manner, hurt us.
capable given hard jason opponent
Jason Kidd is always capable of something like that on a given night, (Steve) Nash, too. But the opponent had so much to do with that night, that it's hard to envision.
comeback finish games march quite wednesday win worried
We're not worried about where we are. We were 10 games under .500 in March and that would be quite a comeback if we win on Wednesday (and finish 41-41).
add five four maybe mean row seven six string together win
We've got to put together a string at some time. It doesn't mean we have to put together seven in a row or anything like that. At some point, we have to win five of six and maybe add another four out of five in there.
chance decent dig dug hole lay line looked ourselves quarter serious third
We've dug ourselves a decent hole here and we're going to have to dig ourselves out. This is a game, if you're going to get serious about what you're going to do this season, (that) you've got to lay it all on the line there in the third quarter when we have a chance to win. We just looked out of it most of the night.
fortunate played
We feel fortunate that Shaq played 24 minutes.
came err happened normally played second side soft telling truth
Well, I normally err on the side of telling the truth, so I'm going to tell it. I'm really embarrassed by what happened out there. I thought we came out in the second half, we were pretty much as soft as I've seen. We played with very little heart, very little aggressiveness.
needed played smart
We played hard. We didn't play as smart as we needed to in some instances.
came good hard played
We played hard for the most part. We had a lot of good stretches. Then it came down to the end, could we make plays, and we did.
We went up to New Jersey, and there was all this hype,
against difficult dug good hole point team
We dug a 20-point hole against a good team at home. It's very difficult at that point to come back and win.
bit game offensive
We got back in the game and then short-circuited a little bit with some offensive fouls. We battled them all the way to the end. We just couldn't make the plays.
brings excellent exuberance toughness trying
He brings toughness and exuberance to our group. He's legitimately trying to get in there and take contact. I thought all around he was excellent tonight.