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
ben energy minutes played
Ben was great. The energy he played with for 56 minutes was unreal.
wish
I wish I could have been in the stands.
deal expect games great players team turn veteran
From what I read and hear, as a team and with Shaq, they feel like they are going to be able to turn it on when they need to. Veteran players have that belief. We go through that here in some games But I expect them to come with a great deal of energy.
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.
phenomenal team
They're a different team with Tracy. He was phenomenal tonight.
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.
hang last teams week
They made the plays, we didn't. I haven't thought over the last week that we've been very sharp. We've let teams hang around.
basically fourth games judge losses nine played three wins
I don't always judge things by wins and losses. I just go by how you play and the opportunities to win. We played 51 games, and out of those 51 we had nine losses and probably only three of those games where we basically didn't have opportunities to win in the fourth quarter.
bored chance forced gets guys instincts maybe stimulated team
Our guys have to be stimulated mentally. I've always said this team gets bored at times. When you're forced to react, forced to move, you don't really have a chance to maybe think about getting bored. You just go out and your instincts take over.
block building eight good hopefully next situation
It'll be a good situation for him to get in and get a feel of things, and hopefully he'll play well and use this as kind of a building block for the next eight games.
talk
It's the same thing. We talk to him. He'll be fine. He'll be fine.
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.
anytime athletes coach greatest
Anytime you can coach the greatest athletes in the world for a day, it's a thrill.
ben game goes guys happen instead league looked might nine points rebounds rip seems six
I looked back at that. What always seems to happen is, the guys will play well, and they'll have one stinker game that week. They'll have one game where Chauncey might have 11 points, six assists. Or Ben might get nine rebounds instead of 18. Rip might have 13 points instead of 23. And in this league so much, it goes down to statistics.