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
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We'd like to start getting our bench in that 70- to 80-minute range to give our starters some rest.
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We're not going to chase that record, but if it comes, it comes. Our focus right now is health and staying sharp. We're going to rest some guys and give our bench extended minutes to get them ready for the playoffs.
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We wanted to try to start establishing our bench more, so basically we're playing three guys and giving those guys a little bit more minutes.
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He's going to be bench pressing a lot of weight come Wednesday.
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Going into this game we needed the bench to give us both good minutes and good production, which they did. Chicago plays physical, they play hard. But to our credit, we can play that way.
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Ben usually makes big free throws down the stretch and when he misses, it motivates him to play harder defensively.
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Ben played 56 minutes last night (in Memphis), and he played 41 tonight. Yet, he was able to do what he did. When we needed to lock down in the final two minutes, he pretty much did it.
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Ben erases a lot of mistakes for us. He was unbelievable with everything he was doing.
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Ben did as good a job as you can on Shaq when you play him one-on-one. His defensive presence gave us the ability to shut down some of their other people.
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Ben works on it a lot, ... We do a lot of shooting as a team, 15-, 17-foot shooting, which is basically free throws. We shoot probably 100 of those a day. So he's getting a lot more free throws.
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Ben was phenomenal. People talk about Bruce Bowen and others as the best defender. Bruce is a great individual defender. Ben is a great individual defender. But Ben Wallace might be one of the best that's played the game as a team defender.
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Ben was phenomenal defensively. It was good that we were able to get Ben some good extended rest. He's going to be bench-pressing a lot of weight on Wednesday.
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Ben was great. The energy he played with for 56 minutes was unreal.
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Ben was great. He showed tonight why I keep saying he's the best defensive player in our league.