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
belief broke spirit together
I think all those together broke our spirit and our belief in each other.
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.
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.
goal good half job minutes putting second together
We did a good job in the first half, but in the second half I thought we were a little lax. Putting together 48 minutes is our goal from here on out ... that has been the story of our whole year.
rhythm start time together
At some time we have to start getting a rhythm together and getting a feel for each other, and we wanted that to be this week.
five stick three together
They are the measuring stick of the league. They have been together for what? Five years? We've been together for three games.
scrap team together
I really like the scrap by our team tonight. They've been together for 500 games, and we've been together for two days.
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).
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.