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
bored curtain fifth gear goes guys locked maybe sixth
My take is that these guys need challenges. Sometimes maybe they can get a little bored out there. But when they're locked in, it's like a curtain goes up and you can see it in their faces. They go from fifth gear into a sixth gear.
control force man ran run
On the road, you can't run as much at times. You just have to control tempo. The thing we did the first two games, we ran when we had opportunities and when we had man advantages, and when we didn't have it, we didn't. We didn't force things, and that is the big key.
hearing last night occupied played reasons sit sleeping
One of the reasons I played him a lot, I thought it was better for him to be occupied than to sit and think. And considering his circumstances, not sleeping much last night after hearing about it, he played pretty good.
guys liked main seen start
I would have liked to have seen the guys get off to a better start early, with their main group.
wish
I wish I could have been in the stands.
came fine float players radar
When I came here, a lot of the players told me it'd be like that. We float under the radar a lot. So I think that's fine with us.
break fast grind open opportunity points strengths team
One of the strengths of this team is we grind it defensively but we get fast break points. We have the opportunity to get points in the open floor.
gave helped negative
The only negative was I wanted to play Carlos (Delfino) and I didn't. I think he could have probably helped us. We went with Mo, and Mo gave us energy.
ball played situations
What I'd like to do is get him the ball more in low-block situations and not as many things in pick-and-pop situations. He played well with Carlos, but he'll play well with anybody, how he plays.
blocking concept good presence shots supposed team understand understanding
What I didn't understand was how good he can be defensively, blocking shots and he has a pretty good presence of understanding what he's supposed to do in the team concept defensively,
ball corners extra movement player playing shots shows taking
When we're taking shots from the corners and we did a lot tonight, that shows we are playing a lot of ball movement, a lot of player movement and making the extra pass. That's pretty much how you'd want to play offensively.
fine matter playing winning
There's a fine line. As I told our guys, it's not a matter or winning or losing, it's playing good, and if you play good, you win.
aggressive anybody ben center dominating goes middle question
There's no question that Ben has been as dominating as a center in what he does as anybody in the league. I told him he's kind of like a middle linebacker in football. He patrols that middle and goes from an aggressive standpoint.
home impressed since sit watch ways
I've been impressed with him since Day One. At times, when I don't play him, I always go home at night, sit and watch the film and try to find ways why I didn't play him.