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
both closing ends except execution game guys played quality stretch win
I thought we had a quality, quality game tonight. Guys played to win down the stretch ? except execution and closing out games, on both ends of the floor.
almost execution game lead road stagnant third tough trip
Same story in the third quarter, we had a tough third quarter, execution-wise and scoring-wise. They went on a 14-point run. I think we had a lead almost every game on this road trip in the first half. In the third quarter, I don't know where we go to. We go stagnant in the third quarter.
against defense execution problem team turned
Avalanche. Offensively, our execution was bad. That's one problem you have against a team defense like that. They turned up the juice, and we couldn't execute.
couple execution last minutes
Execution down the stretch, that's been our story the last couple games. We haven't done the little things in the last couple minutes of the game.
effort good hit ray shots stretch tough until
I thought we had a good effort until about a two-minute stretch when Ray (Allen) just went crazy. He hit some tough shots and some tough threes.
lost quicker
I thought we lost a lot of juice. I thought they were quicker than us tonight.
close games group point regain took turning
I thought that was a turning point in our season, (Wells') shot, that group of close games we had. I think it took a little starch out of us, and we were never able to regain (momentum).
belief broke spirit together
I think all those together broke our spirit and our belief in each other.
happened lose ways
It happened so quick. We come up with different ways to lose it.
couple guarded hit huge jason shots
Jason hit some huge shots. I don't know who could have guarded him on a couple of those shots he made.
national saw team
I saw he got into some scraps with the national team and I like that, as long as you use it in the right way.
fought guys lose played
Those guys fought hard, played hard. To lose like that ...
together
We have to put together 48 minutes. That's been our story all year.
growing minutes next run team together
We have to put together 48 minutes and that has been our story the whole year. That is a growing process. That is the next evolution. When a team makes a run at us we have to go right back at them.