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
basically guys halftime played playing positive second takes talked type
I talked to the guys at halftime and basically said that we were not as competitive. I thought that the second half they played exceptionally well. In these type of games, it takes a lot of time to get used to playing with guys. Every guy did something in a very positive way.
bodies far gives guy inside question shot
He's a different presence. There's no question that without him, they didn't go inside as much. He gives them a low-block presence. He's more of a go-to guy as far as inside down the stretch. Defensively, he's a shot blocker. It just gives them more bodies up front.
causes game improved
He causes problems. He has improved his perimeter game so much.
contested good help job might rip send tried understanding
Rip did a good job of understanding where help might be, tried to send him to as much help as he could and contested pretty much most of his shots.
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.
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.
faced fight teams
We've faced a lot of teams that have had that sense of urgency, so what has happened, teams have kind of jumped on us early. We've had to fight our butts off to get back in games.
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.
tried win
We wanted to win big right away. We didn't let things happen, we tried to make too many spectacular plays.
battle billy club coming few game heat might next players rest trying
We have players we are trying to get rest over the next 11 games. But you get into the heat of the battle sometimes and you need a billy club to get them out of the game sometimes because they are so competitive. We might have a few tangles coming down the stretch.