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
calls hang heads picked reverse tonight
I thought what we did particularly well tonight was that when calls did not go our way we did not go into one of our tremendously long droughts. We did not hang our heads and look defeated. We did the reverse and picked it up.
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.
geared guys hang team time
This is kind of a team that's been getting geared up for this time of year. Our guys have been able to hang with them, but this is going to be a different animal.
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.
burned tried whenever
Whenever I've tried it, he's burned us. But it would be on the table.
against aggressive anyone felt great halftime halves league playing points poorer quality quite second team win
We kind of felt at halftime it was one of our poorer halves in quite a while. But it was a great second half for us. We were much more aggressive defensively and had at least 25 points off turnovers. It was a quality win against a team playing as well as anyone in the league right now.
handle hard last played reacting time
We didn't handle it very well the last time we played them. We had a hard time reacting to it.
beginning mentally paid tonight trouble
We did not play well enough to win. We had way too many breakdowns, mentally and physically. We had a lot of trouble tonight from beginning to end maintaining our focus, and we paid for it.
mentally
We did not play well enough to win. We had way to many breakdowns, mentally and physically.
decent game seconds shot win
We had a decent shot to win the game with 18 seconds to go.
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.