Mo Cheeks
Mo 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...
allen ball bit four guys hands hope played spread three
The way we're going to play without Allen Iverson is the way we played tonight. When you have Allen, you can put the ball in his hands a little bit more. When we do not have him, you have to spread it around and hope you get three or four guys who can score.
bench easy guy kyle starting
For a guy to be starting and then go to the bench is not always an easy thing. Fortunately for me, you have a guy like Kyle who will do anything for us to be successful.
allen chris
No, Allen and Chris are not going to play tonight.
bench bit certainly chris games guys minutes played problem rely scale stretch stronger
A back problem is what it is, and with Chris having played as many minutes as he has over his career, now certainly we'll scale back his minutes. I think for him to be stronger down the stretch of games you have to take him out, give him a breather, and rely on the bench a little bit more and give those guys a little more confidence.
allen hurt point
If Allen is hurt to the point where he can't play, you know he's really, really hurt.
guys knew leaders-and-leadership together utilize
I knew I shouldn't have said that. We've got guys who are leaders, and you've got to utilize those guys no, I have no thought that they're not together at all.
focusing forget happened move past season start talked trying
It's something we talked about where we could start over and kind of forget about the things that happened the first half, and just start new. That's what we've been focusing on, trying to look at this as a new season and just move past the old one.
caught good job phoenix
I thought we did a pretty good job of not getting caught up in the way Phoenix plays.
aggressive bit change coming defense early felt help maybe needed
Johnny, as of late, has been coming in early anyway, so I just felt we needed a little bit of change maybe to help our aggressive defense from the beginning.
against built execution foul fourth lead line poor reason
The reason why we built the lead we had was because we got dribble-penetration and we were able to the foul line and make some foul shots. The fourth quarter, they packed it in on us and it was poor, poor execution against a zone.
allen ball bit four guys hands hopefully spread three
When you have an Allen Iverson, you can put the ball in his hands when you're struggling. When you don't you have to spread it around a little bit and hopefully get three or four guys who are going to score.
bang bit dive guy hustle rebound
You get a guy who can bang a little bit, rebound a little bit, dive on the floor. You got a hustle guy who does a little bit of everything.
change endure somehow
We just have to endure it and somehow find a way to change it.
bit guys saw tonight
What you saw tonight was a little bit of our future, young guys who can make plays.