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
game seven starting three
I told Avery (Johnson) after the game that I'd like to see him seven more times, starting in about three months.
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They'll be more comfortable at home, but we're not playing Milwaukee. We're playing ourselves. Whether we're home or away we want to play our offense and our defense. Hopefully, if we do that there won't be a letdown.
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It wasn't like he right away went for the head or whatever. They were both fighting for position. You talk about reputation. . . . That's not like Rip to just go after somebody like that.
criteria
It's one of those things -- it's the criteria that you look at.
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.
means people
It just means we can put different people out there and play different ways.
almost teams
It's almost like a classroom. A lot of teams are very temperamental. We have a sense of calm.
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It's going to be a great challenging game for both teams. They are a great defensive team, but the reason we had some success in Minnesota was because of offensive ball movement and player movement. They want to lock you down on one side of the floor. If you can get the defense moving, you can have some success against them.
basically experience good guys learning team
It was a good learning experience for those young guys to play a team that was basically in a must-win situation.
good great people tonight
It was a great reception. A lot of great fans, the people were great tonight and it was a good evening.
fair tough tougher
It's tough. It's always tough to play on the road. It's even tougher when you feel you aren't getting a fair shake.
anytime athletes coach greatest
Anytime you can coach the greatest athletes in the world for a day, it's a thrill.
anytime guy points score
Anytime you got a guy that can score 50 points in this league, you know he can score.
anytime game nine playing
Anytime you're in a game and you have 42 buckets and 30 assists and only nine turnovers, you're distributing the ball, playing pretty well.