Stan Gundy
Stan Gundy
extremely goes obviously talented team year
I obviously don't know the team here, but I know they're young, I know they're offensively extremely talented ... I think the team will get better as the year goes on.
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.
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.
dig hoping job possession resolve shots stretch tough win
They wanted to win a lot more than we did. They had a lot more resolve to try to get the job done down the stretch and we were hoping we would win, we were hoping some shots went in but we didn't dig down and make any possession tough on them at the end.
ball bit defensive good half moved run second start
We got some good energy, and I thought we moved the ball a lot better at the start of the second half and we got out in transition. Antoine had a good run at the defensive end a little bit that got us out into transition.