Flip Saunders
Flip Saunders
Philip Daniel "Flip" Saunderswas an American basketball player and coach. During his career, he coached the Minnesota Timberwolves, Detroit Pistons, and Washington Wizards...
ProfessionCoach
Date of Birth23 February 1955
CityCleveland, OH
bite david good great judge stern thinking
He's just going to have to be a good boy. Bite his lip. We were thinking of getting Judge Judy, getting it on TV. But I don't think commissioner ( David ) Stern would go for that one. They'd probably get very great ratings.
bit reach until wait
He's been so barraged by things right now. I want to wait a little bit until things all are done and then I'll reach out to him.
causes game improved
He causes problems. He has improved his perimeter game so much.
affect dealing mental type
He's had some other things from a mental standpoint. When you're dealing with that type of situation, it's got to affect you from a mental standpoint.
fun nice
He was a really nice kid, really fun to be around, and that's what makes it even more difficult.
bit collapsed couple force game helped might took turned
He turned down some threes. He took a couple of dribble-penetrations, and that collapsed them more and helped out some of our other guys. Sometimes he might take some threes when he's covered, a little bit contested. (Wednesday) he didn't force too many, he let things come to him more. I think he didn't try to force too many, he let the game come to him more.
hit miss pin trying
He was trying to miss it. He was trying to hit it off the back of the pin to no avail.
extended helped nice positive time
He did a nice job. He helped us defensively, scored some in there. I thought for the first time extended minutes, he did a lot of positive things for us.
judge
I can only judge what I have seen,
effective happy held hold overall pleased schedule
I am happy we won, but I am not overall pleased with how we played. When we don't play well, we hold the ball. Tonight, we held the ball. I know our schedule had something to do with it, but we can't be effective when we play like we did tonight.
coming extremely feeling hard help island learning man pressure starting understand works
Carlos works extremely hard on defense. He is big and extremely strong. Now he is starting to understand where the help is coming from. He is learning how to pressure his man into the help, and he isn't feeling like he's out there on an island so much.
easy fresh hard night plays taking turned yesterday
Carlos had fresh legs, because he didn't play the other night and we had yesterday off. But he's improving. In the past, he's been overaggressive and turned easy plays into hard ones. Today, he was just taking the easy plays.
boot couple injured shooting weeks
Cato was out of his boot (protecting his injured right ankle). He was shooting and jogging. He's still at least a couple of weeks away (from being able to practice).
coming performance
This was a workmanlike performance coming off a big win. That's what you like to see.