Maurice Cheeks
Maurice Cheeks
Maurice Edward "Mo" Cheeksis an American retired professional basketball player and currently an assistant coach for the Oklahoma City Thunder of the National Basketball Association. He was the head coach of the Detroit Pistons from June 10, 2013, to February 9, 2014 and has also served as head coach of the Portland Trail Blazers and Philadelphia 76ers...
ProfessionBasketball Player
Date of Birth8 September 1956
CityChicago, IL
eight game minutes plays points seven situations turn turned
We've been there, where we've been up 18 or 19 points. We've been there, where we've been up seven or eight points with two minutes to go in the game. So we've been in a lot of situations where we know the game could turn around. We had plays that turned the game around for us.
exhausted guys
You had guys that were exhausted out there.
anyone guys head pass talking transform
You have to transform yourself, ... As a player, when there?s something you don?t want to do, or you don?t want to do these interviews, you have other guys that they like talking to more anyway, ?cause you like those jovial guys. You can pass that off. As a head coach, you don?t have anyone you can pass it off to.
nights shoots
You are not going to have too many nights where he shoots like that. We were very fortunate.
allowed ball continue drive eventually game jump shot shots win
We didn't drive the ball like we did in the first half. We shot all jump shots and that allowed them back in the game and eventually win the game because we didn't continue doing the things we were doing.
against climbing team uphill
We started out so poorly. You can't do that against a team like Dallas. We were climbing uphill the whole game.
consistency record
We're in that phase. It's been 50 games. We should have some consistency by now. But we're not there. We just haven't put it together. That's why we have the record we have.
andre ball capable dangerous giving kyle offensive shooting team
When you see Kyle shooting the ball the way he's capable of shooting the ball, and giving Andre more offensive opportunities, and even Sam, I think we're a more dangerous team that way.
jump shot shots
We shot more jump shots than I would like, that?s for sure.
toward
We still have a long way to go and we're still working toward that.
knows situations veteran
Webber's a veteran who knows how to play. We try to put him in the same situations he had while he was here. He understands how to play this game.
became good guys happening kept people portland talked time trail
We had some good players, we had some good guys on the team, but some things kept happening time after time and that's all people talked about, ... The things that they did, the dysfunctional things that happened, a lot of that became a part of the Portland Trail Blazers, and that was unfortunate.
man spread
We're going to spread it around a little bit. We're not going to be a one-man, two-man team.
basketball entitled feels game good needed offensive players rebound shot somebody win wire worry
We need one. We're entitled to one, I think. We've been going down to the wire a lot of games. Sometimes it feels good for the players and myself to play a game where you don't have to worry about somebody getting an offensive rebound or making a last-second shot to win a basketball game. For us, we needed that.