Jeff Gundy
Jeff Gundy
ball bit guard half help ready second sleepy turned
We didn't guard the ball well and we didn't help appropriately. I think they (the Hornets) were probably sleepy a little bit, not ready to play. I had a little bit to do with it. They turned it up in the second half and we had no response.
effort guard help maybe quickness recover truly
We're at a quickness disadvantage, so it makes it look like an effort thing when it truly is a quickness thing. On defense, we do maybe one thing, 1 1/2 things, but we can't help and recover and then guard the ball. They went by us the whole night.
atlantic questions team
There have been a lot of questions about the use of their bench. How can you question a team that's in first place (in the Atlantic Division)?
early guy judge nba opportunity stick trying wants
Trying to judge a big guy too early is a mistake. If he wants to be an NBA player, he has to stick with it. You never know ? he may get an opportunity here.
fatigue fourth half quite tracy
Tracy got going pretty well after a while, but the first half his back was quite bothersome. Obviously, Yao had some fatigue problems. He never could quite get going in the fourth quarter.
bad doctor fortune found happy locate positive string
The positive is they found something they can fix. It's been a string of bad fortune for him injury-wise, but we're happy the doctor has been able to locate something we can do something about.
finishing fought harder last problems street turned
We still have the same problems we had last spring: one-on-one defense; pick-and-roll defense; (we're a) high-turnover team; when it turned into a street fight, they fought harder than we did; and can we finish? Right now, we're not a finishing team. That's on me, that nothing's improved.
effort gave good talk
We're just not a good team. We can talk about it, but we're just not. Tonight, we gave a professional effort and yet an inefficient one.
good tracy
When we have Yao (Ming) and Tracy (McGrady), we're a good team. It's pretty simple.
changed guys minutes playing proud
There are some things we could have done better, I think, that could have changed the result. Our guys are competitive and are playing a lot more minutes than they probably should. There's a lot of things that we can be proud of.
board free left number problem shoots team throws
We left a lot on the board today. Free throws and turnovers are problem number one but when a team shoots that well you have to give them credit.
capable concur doctors feels playing
When he feels like he's capable of playing and the trainers and doctors concur and I concur, then he'll go back out there and play.
defense fourth missing score
When you score that little in a fourth quarter, it's usually part defense and part just missing some shots.
ball basket chest defense fall four good happened missing normally offensive ourselves pound remember row score shots team three understand
When you score that little in a quarter, it's probably part defense and part you're missing some shots that you normally make. So we're not going to pound ourselves on the chest because I remember three or four they had right in a row at the basket over our midgets where the ball just happened to fall out. We try to play good defense yet we understand how good of an offensive team they are.