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
brings burst energy kelly knack players power special wallace
Kelly Clarkson will be replacing Rasheed Wallace at power forward, ... She brings a burst of energy - and a special knack for making the players around her better.
impressed minutes nice starting
He's got size, and he's done a nice job. I have been really impressed with him. He's starting to get heat-of-the-battle minutes now and he's been productive. He's not shied away at all.
barometer concerned games half scoring shooting zero
He's a barometer a lot for us. ... I was not as concerned about him not scoring or shooting or not being aggressive, but his rebounding totals were way down. He had some games in the first half where he'd come in with zero or one.
nose putting
I just told the guys, we have to get dirty. We have to do what we do best, and that is putting our nose to the grindstone and going after them.
doubtful reevaluate
Then we'll reevaluate him. But I would say it would be very doubtful that he would play.
hits next
He's going to get enough punishment, hits and bruises next game.
coming weight
It's like he's coming out of the weight room.
adapt bit hard
My thing is, if you're going to let them play, let them play. There was a little bit of inconsistency, so it was hard to adapt to that.
rip shots
If you give Rip (Hamilton) shots and he's in rhythm, he'll often make those shots.
bench both chicago game good minutes needed plays
Going into this game we needed the bench to give us both good minutes and good production, which they did. Chicago plays physical, they play hard. But to our credit, we can play that way.
couple exhibition games good guys last lost recall regular start
I think I recall that we lost our last couple games in the exhibition season, and we got off to a pretty good start with the regular season. These guys have been there. They know that this is when it all begins.
ankle sit today
He's better today than he was Tuesday, and you don't want to sit him out and have the ankle get weaker.
charles four game giving great guys halftime helped played playing run second talk thank
I have to thank Charles (Barkley) for giving a great halftime talk when he said the game was over. I thought we were playing too perfect, but in the second half we played exceptionally well. When our four guys (four All-Stars from Detroit) were in we started to run some plays, and I think that helped us.
coming players toughest wants
It's one of those things, if you put him out there for 10 minutes, he wants 15. If you put him out there for 15, he wants 20. That's the toughest thing about young players coming to championship-caliber teams.