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
ability impressed johnny
I was very impressed with Johnny Salmons, his ability to get to the basket, to penetrate, make baskets and find people.
ability certainly creates defensive easy fourth gotten offensive player realize tendency
Certainly you have to make adjustments on the offensive end. When you have a player like that in the fourth quarter, you have a tendency to look for him and realize he has that ability to take over a game. On the defensive end, he creates some turnovers for us and easy baskets. And we haven't gotten as many with him out of the lineup.
heck
It was a heck of a shot. Once again, it was our rebounding that put us in a hole.
essence game gonna harder knew played quarter third tough
I knew it was gonna be a tough game. The essence of that game was that they played harder than we did. ... It was our first quarter and third quarter that put us in the hole.
guards offensive people point smartest win
The way they play, most people say you can't win that way, but that's how they play and they have one of the smartest point guards (Nash) in the league. They play aggressive, offensive basketball.
consistent discredit effective gets jump people
Once he gets a consistent jump shot, he can be a much more effective player, ... I think people discredit his toughness. He has to keep working on his jump shot.
ability ball camp defense kyle player releases shoot talking
Kyle put on a show. He catches the ball and releases it so quick. It's really impressive. I've been talking defense all camp but a player of his ability to shoot the ball has to be on the floor.
based certainly played win
I certainly thought we'd win more than 43 games, absolutely. I'm disappointed, myself, based on the way we played so far.
certainly win
I certainly thought we'd win more than 43 games.
andre ball guys hands night offense
Not everyone can be a hitter, or shooter, or part of an offense every night. There are some guys that have to be different things at different times and sometimes Andre is that guy. Certainly, we'd like to put the ball in his hands a little more.
incredible kept kobe saying shots
Kobe makes shots like that. We kept saying they were incredible shots and they were incredible shots for most people, but with Kobe I don't think they were incredible because he does things like that on an every-day basis.
basketball creative dunk
He can dunk the basketball. You have to be a little creative out there. I think he'll do fine.
ball jump player power shoot step
He's kind of an old-school power forward, down on the block, mainly, can step out and shoot the jump shot. He's an aggressive-type player with some ball skills.
haunt second teams
If you give teams like (Detroit) so many second chances, it is going to come back and haunt you. And that's what it did.