Stan Gundy
Stan Gundy
gets guys three
Obviously, it gets three of our guys out there who have a better idea of what we're doing.
becomes line nba negative percent players shooting
Shooting under 50 percent for NBA players is absurd. Getting to the line becomes a negative for us.
active defensive good last looked obviously parts rusty
Shaquille obviously looked rusty offensively. But he looked very good on the defensive glass, and he was more active defensively than he was for big parts of last year.
best practices since
one of his best practices ... since he's been here.
both build coaches figure finally fit job pieces players position together
Now we're finally in a position to build a core. And now our job as both coaches and players is to fit the pieces together and figure out how we're going to make it work.
again certainly good job maybe scouting true
We've got very good young guys. I've said this for 10 years, and it's certainly true again this year, maybe more so than in a lot of years. Our scouting staff, they've done an unbelievable job uncovering good young players.
best care group guy guys looking veteran
We don't care if it's a young guy or old guy, we are looking for the group who is the best fit. But these veteran guys are smart, tough, they have experience.
guys
I told them all of you guys are wrong.
fatigue last night overly sit sort
That's sort of a day-to-day thing. The idea last night was not to overly fatigue him in one stretch, and also not sit him out for too long where he tightened up.
call difficult hard talked
It's very hard to call a flop, ... We talked about it with Bennett. You can't say a guy's flopping, so go penalize it. It's very difficult to make that determination.
april competing counts games harder road teams
It's going to be a harder road for 82 games - a lot more teams competing for it. And you're going to have to be a lot better when it counts in April and May to get to where we want to go.
hard judge
It's hard to judge anything on one night. But it wasn't a positive.
difficult handle
It's a very difficult situation. How we'll handle it with him, I don't know.
build finished fought game hard model
It was a really hard fought game. We finished the game very well. That has to be the model for how to finish the game...Hopefully, we can build on this game.