Lawrence Frank
Lawrence Frank
Lawrence Adam Frank is an American professional basketball coach who is currently working as the Executive Vice President of Basketball Operations for the Los Angeles Clippers of the National Basketball Association. He formerly served as head coach of the Detroit Pistons and the Nets, and has been an assistant coach for the Boston Celtics and the Nets...
ProfessionCoach
Date of Birth23 August 1970
defense empty missed missing open pressure puts scoring straight ton
We had 10 straight empty possessions. We missed a ton of open shots, and that puts a ton of pressure on the defense. It was a combination of their No. 1 scoring defense and us missing a lot of uncontested shots.
damn good level playing secure
We're just playing at a much different level now, we're much more secure with who we are. We're in a much different state, where we don't exhale. We belong. We're a damn good team.
starting
We're starting to see what we need to do to win.
careful course game resort
I think you have to be careful of doing something you don't do a whole lot. It is important that every game you give him a different look, you come from a different place, you try to keep him a little off-balance ... but over the course of a 48-minute game, you are going to resort to who you have been.
caught effort guys half legs playing second
I think it's a combination of our guys effort and them playing the second half of a back-to-back which probably caught up with their legs a little bit.
dallas elite goes quality team time
I am an optimist, and why not today? It just goes to say how quality an organization Dallas is. They've been an elite team for a long time and we want to be up in those ranks.
educated extremely game great guy
The guy has been in great gyms. He is extremely well educated in the game of basketball.
cliff game gave lift took
Cliff really gave us a big lift off the bench. He and Vince really took over the game with their pick-and-roll plays.
healthy opponent ready trying whoever
We're just trying to get healthy so that whoever our first-round opponent is we're ready to roll.
players team
There are no excuses. We've got enough players on our team to play better than that.