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
deserved fun guys hope mockery
The guys were having fun with it. For what we've been through this season, I thought the guys deserved it. I hope what we did didn't make a mockery of the game.
attack difference guys liked team
I see the difference in our team -- the speed, the quickness, the guys in attack mode. I liked our scrap, I liked our fight.
block clean counted fight glad guys met people pulled stretch tonight
I thought it was a clean block at the end. It was a big win, a lot of people counted us for dead. I was glad to see our guys fight back, they met the challenge. Tonight the guys pulled together, responded and executed down the stretch on the fly.
defensive figure great guys night offensive player sets spent trying
He's a one-man wrecking crew. We spent the whole night trying to figure out the offensive sets around where he was on the play. He's a great player. He's one of the guys you have to think about for Defensive Player of the Year.
balls build deserved diving guys trying winning
These are young guys and we're trying to win. For me to build a winning environment, you have to try to win every night. These guys were scratching and diving for balls and they deserved to win.
call cocktail dinner drive guys legal limit reminded
I just reminded guys that if you do go out to dinner and have a cocktail or drink, don't drive, because you don't know what your legal limit is. Don't even take any chances. Have someone drive for you or call a cab. You have a lot to lose.
attack driving guys offensive points positive scoring though
Our positive was Rashad scoring 18 points but on the other end you have guys driving by you going to the basket. I thought though his offensive attack and feel was good.
close confidence excited game great guys hard run team win
I thought it was great for our confidence in close games, to come out and close the game, and win a game when a team is making a hard run at you like that. We're excited about it. The guys are excited about it.
ball contain guys
Our perimeter guys did not contain the ball at all.
great grow guys opportunity win
It's a great opportunity for these young guys to do what they did today. To compete, to build, to grow and to fight. Most of all, to win without those guys.
basketball containing great guys job
They did a great job of containing the basketball and getting guys out of their spots.
confidence guys lost
The guys had lost confidence a little bit. I thought we got it back today.
boards defensive hard offensive run
It's hard to run out when you don't get defensive stops. They got so many offensive boards that it slowed down our momentum.
execute mentally
It's not really who you play; it's us. It's how we mentally prepare. It's how we execute offensively. It's how we execute defensively more so than who the other (team) is.