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
continue few next shake
I'm pretty comfortable right now. There're still a lot of things that can happen. You always continue to look and see what's available, and I think you wait. There will be things that shake out here in the next few days, I'm sure.
bench creates minutes playing starters vicious
The bench has been great. And that creates that vicious cycle. When the bench is playing well, they play more minutes and the starters get more rest.
bench gave lift points tonight
It's not always about how many points they score. I thought our bench really gave us a lift tonight in a lot of different ways.
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.
anytime catching chase
I don't think you can chase anything. Anytime you chase something, you never end up catching it. So it if comes, it comes.
anytime death lose pressure situation
Anytime you lose someone, a death in the family, it's very, very emotional. We're not in any situation to pressure him one way or the other.
college five guys high hope kids league maybe opportunity people rare school standpoint talk team whether
I would hope there would be at least three, maybe more. As coaches, we talk about team play, how important it is. This is an opportunity from a league standpoint to show to people - whether it's college kids or high school kids or AAU kids - how important team play really is. It's a very rare opportunity you'd have as a league to maybe put five guys from one team in.
coming difficult enjoy love team work
I think if I didn't enjoy this team so much and wasn't having so much fun, things could become really difficult with being away from my family. But everything is fine. I love coming to work every day.
consider last takes week
(McDyess) has been like that the last week or two. It takes him a little while to get into his flow. I consider him one of the starters, and that's how he's playing.
bench boost both came confidence ends frame gave guys
Mo (Evans) gave us a boost at both ends tonight. Guys have confidence in him. The guys on the bench want to play more, but they have to do what he did. He came with the right frame of mind.
biggest defense easier four impressed last played three
The biggest thing that I was impressed with was the last three or four minutes, our defense was (good). It we played like that for 48 (minutes), we'd make things a lot easier for ourselves.
cities early games grind knew leading playing road tough trying
Before the season, we said there were going to be two tough stretches -- being on the road so much early and this one, where we are playing 10 games in 10 different cities leading into the break. We knew it would be tough. We're just trying to grind our way through.
happy moments
You're happy. It's one of the moments where you end up really happy or really sad.
bottom line score taking volume work
The bottom line is, he's going to score. What you can't let him do is get into that 40-point range. You have to make him a volume scorer -- what he's done now is score without taking a lot of shots. We've got to make him work more, offensively and defensively.