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
basic expect few floor run
We just expect a few basic things. We need him to defend, rebound, run the floor -- same things we've always needed. He's got to be able to find a way to get that done for us.
game lost matter poise ran
We kind of lost our poise out there and they ran away from us. In a matter of minutes, the game was gone.
pop step
We kind of had a pop to our step most of the game.
basketball came lack respect
We just kind of came undone. The lack of respect for the basketball out there was pretty amateurish.
days game overdoing practice sure taking tonight watch win worry
We just have to watch him -- that's why he's taking days off of practice -- and make sure he's not overdoing it. But if he's able to play, we'll play him and worry about each game one by one. If he has to overplay tonight to win the game, that's what we'll have to do.
certain guys seeing supposed
What we are seeing is we have 1-1/2 guys who are not doing what they're supposed to do on a certain possession.
bodies defensive fortunate good guilty guys job nice silly slapping sort
We were on the fortunate end of it. We did a nice job of getting our bodies in and not the silly sort of reaching, slapping fouls we've been guilty of sometimes. Overall, I want to give my guys credit. They had a very good defensive effort.
chain events job
We've got to do a better job with that chain of events.
complaints-and-complaining found works
With our group, we've found that this works for us. Nobody's complained. We don't have much of a complaining group.
draw drive emphasis five four free games guys judgment minutes penalty point shoot shot
We have made it a point of emphasis all year. Our guys have to use better judgment about when to shoot (the ball) and when to drive and draw contact. There were some games when we were in the penalty (situation) for four or five minutes and still had not shot a free throw.
close games plays
We've had so many close games in which we weren't able to make the big plays at the end.
closed downs few fought games group guys last obviously presented season speaks ups vacation whenever
We've had our ups and downs obviously this season. But the way they closed the season speaks to what kind of group of guys this is. We had many opportunities to not be as sharp, let the last few games go by and go on vacation (today). Whenever that (possibility) presented itself, the guys fought their way out of it.
chances games played plays similar tonight
Tonight was similar to other games we have played lately. We had our chances and weren't able to make plays when we had those chances.
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The opportunities we had to see him play big minutes -- when Brad Miller went down, he was forced into the starting lineup with Sacramento -- he played well in that role. He knows and we know that's not a role he's necessarily comfortable in. But he's shown the ability to shoot the ball well. We weren't really sure what kind of a defender he was going to be. We've been pleasantly surprised with the way he's come in and picked up our concepts and things we're trying to execute.