Dwane Casey
Dwane Casey
Dwane Caseyis an American basketball coach. He is the current head coach of the NBA's Toronto Raptors. Casey is also a former NCAA basketball player and coach, having played and coached there for over a decade before moving on to the NBA...
ProfessionCoach
Date of Birth17 April 1957
gas main matter ran running
That was the main thing ? we ran out of gas with those guys. It was more a matter of running out of gas than anything else.
lost quicker
I thought we lost a lot of juice. I thought they were quicker than us tonight.
laughed laughter walked
They would have laughed if you walked in with long shorts.
division feeling fighting happy kevin mind nobody opinions spoke taylor wants
Kevin has opinions and is frustrated. We're all frustrated. We're not happy with where we are. Nobody wants to not be fighting for the division lead. I think he just spoke his mind on the feeling of everyone, from (owner) Glen Taylor all the way down to our trainer.
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Kevin has never said, 'I don't like who we have, I don't like you as a coach, I don't want this coach. I've known Kevin for a while. He and I hit it off right from the start. To say there's not going to be bumps in the road - there's always going to be bumps in the road in any relationship. But it's always a matter of respect. Like I told him the first time I met him, if there's one player in this league that I would pay to watch play, it would be him. Because he brings it every night.
basketball both ends hope kevin notice playing solid taking
Kevin and Wally are playing at an All-Star level. I hope everyone is taking notice that they are playing solid basketball at both ends of the floor.
dallas took
I thought Dallas took us to the woodshed, especially in the first half. We didn't come out like we were on a three-game skid.
basket
Kevin's basket was the back breaker. That's in our playbook, and we executed it perfectly.
continuing good hard job keeping team together train veteran
He's done a good job of going in there and keeping it together and continuing to train - which is hard to do sometimes. Especially when you have a veteran team like that . . . that's used to doing things their way.
attack ripped telling took
He just ripped it through and took it to the basket. That is what we have been telling him to do, attack their feet.
betting career finishes
If I were a betting man, and I'm not, I would say he finishes his career there.
belief broke spirit together
I think all those together broke our spirit and our belief in each other.
coming kevin react ricky safety situations time
You want to put them in situations to see how they react under competition, with the referees, the crowd, time and score, fatigue, frustration, with no safety blanket. You don't have Kevin coming in, you don't have Ricky coming in. It's on you.
couple dire far pieces rebuilding
We're not in such dire straits as everyone thinks. We're probably in the rebuilding process, whatever, but I think we're a couple pieces away, or not that far away from getting to where we want to be. ... But it's a process.