Stan Gundy
Stan Gundy
decision love reason
I made this decision for one reason and one reason only: I love my family.
fights-and-fighting floor game guys heights lifting playing team
It's not about numbers. Then you'd have guys fighting. It's about playing the game better. It's being more efficient, it's making better decisions, it's playing the other end of the floor better and it's lifting your team to heights they haven't been to.
confidence far fight fighting lets related starts
It's related to his confidence more than anything. He's going to have to fight to get that back. He's going to have to go down probably so far that he just lets it go and starts fighting to get it back.
good offensive stuff
At the offensive end, I didn't do a good job. I didn't find stuff for us to run.
coming finals hope last lower minutes raise saying urgency year
I'm not saying any of that to lower our expectations. But I think it has to raise the sense of urgency on the part of our players. Even the ones coming back, if they think we can do what we did last year and we're on to the finals and then we'll hope the last 2 1/2 minutes will get better, that's ridiculous.
crazy people understand
Cleveland, I don't understand why people aren't just going crazy over them,
ability ball best huge role run takes ways
I like it when he takes the ball off the board. It's one of the best ways to run a break. He has the ability to do that. He showed a lot of versatility. He'll play a huge role for us.
great
That team, to me, on paper, is a 55-win team. I think they've got a great nucleus there.
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.
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.
best
I told him I thought he already had the best guy.
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.
ahead beat good people spot veteran
They are going to have to beat out those veteran guys. It is not going to be easy. At every spot there are good veteran people ahead of them.