Stan Gundy
Stan Gundy
best players
You never want one of your best players to go down with an injury, but it's also a part of the game.
best dealing fourth guys players step three veteran
You never want one of your best players going down with an injury. It's all also part of the game. We're already dealing with three veteran guys out, now a fourth veteran guy out, so some of these young guys are going to have to step up and play.
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.
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.
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.
good
It was just a very good win. We need everything we can get right now.
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.
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.
decision love reason
I made this decision for one reason and one reason only: I love my family.
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.
focus require
It'll get better as we go, but it's going to require a focus from a lot of people.
great
It's great to be able to do something for people.
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.