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
seven three
I told him I'd like to do this seven more times in two or three months.
defense easier four last minutes three
I thought the last three or four minutes our defense was impressive.. If we play like that for 48 minutes it would make things a lot easier for ourselves.
coming course game happened heals hurt last seem team time year
Coming in from the outside, you could see that this team was hurt from what happened last year in Game 7. Sometimes you think over the course of time, they say that time heals wounds. But time just didn't seem to heal that wound.
coach committed drive far good group players sure
Like I said, I think a coach is as good as the players he has. You do have to drive them. You've got to make sure to put them in the right situations. And we have a group that's very committed as far as what we're doing.
adversity built challenged love people rise team types
I think the one thing that people underestimate is that when there's adversity and they become challenged they rise up to the occasion. They love those types of situations. That's why this team is built for the playoffs.
coming extremely feeling hard help island learning man pressure starting understand works
Carlos works extremely hard on defense. He is big and extremely strong. Now he is starting to understand where the help is coming from. He is learning how to pressure his man into the help, and he isn't feeling like he's out there on an island so much.
blocking defensive fourth guy might mission player send steals trophy year
The guy that has been on a mission here is Ben. They might as well take the Defensive Player of the Year trophy and send it here for the fourth time, because when you look at all the things he's doing - defensive rebounding, blocking shots, steals - he's just doing everything.
remember win
If we don't win the title, no one will remember that we were 35-5.
broke good guys happy hurt stale starters sweat type
Our starters broke a sweat and didn't get too stale or hurt and I was happy to see the young guys play. It was good to see those guys in that type of situation.
bite game half mom whatever
My mom told me before the game whatever you do don't get a technical. The way things were going in the first half I really had to bite my lip.
season split stay sure win
I'm sure they will want to get a win and split the season series. We'll want to be competitive, and stay sharp.
basketball bit fourth great nba plays quarter saw
I thought, especially for our league, the fourth quarter was a great quarter. They saw a little bit about what NBA basketball is about: great plays by great players.
conducive determine guy success whose
I tell all players, I don't determine how much you play, you do by how well you play. In Tony, I think we've got a guy whose temperament is conducive to having success in our system.
anytime guy points score
Anytime you got a guy that can score 50 points in this league, you know he can score.