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
accept compete matter players road tough win
You have to have players that really accept challenges, that like to compete and really like to play on the road more than they do at home. It is more challenging. It's tough to win on the road, no matter who you play.
high level shows
To get to 60 (wins) is really something. It shows we've been able to play at a high level for a long time.
tough
We made him take a lot of tough shots.
control gain lost second
We had control. We lost that control and couldn't gain it back in the second half.
defended playoff positive time
The positive was we defended down the stretch. That's what we're going to have to do when playoff time comes.
ability both defend execute lose
We're not going to lose our personality. Our personality is still our ability to defend and to execute offensively, and we did both today.
defense hold milwaukee points score staple team
When you take a team like Milwaukee that can really score and you hold them to 74 points your team defense is doing something. That's the staple of our team.
energy lack maybe quick rest spots watch
When you watch film, you see we're maybe not getting to spots quick enough. Or there are some things where we lack the energy that I know when we get rest that we have. So we'll see.
far happened playing playoff prepared throw thrown
We still only had 10 turnovers for the game. They were magnified as far as when they happened a little bit. When you're playing well, they try to throw everything at you. From that standpoint, as I say, the more things that are thrown at you, the better prepared you are come playoff time.
far iceberg tip
We are at the tip of the iceberg as far as where we are and where we could be.
means missing open shoot
When you shoot 35 percent, that means you're missing some open shots. But they also had something to do with it.
beat calmed played position win
To our credit, we calmed down and just played basketball. The thing is, especially on the road, you put yourself in a position to win games. We don't beat ourselves.
came credit few good last
To our credit we came back and located him in the last few minutes, and didn't give him any good looks.
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.