Paul Woolpert
Paul Woolpert
Paul Woolpert is an American basketball coach who is currently an assistant coach for the Los Angeles D-fenders of the NBA Development League...
fall good knew positive shoot
I was completely positive at halftime. I knew we were too good to shoot 25 percent. We just had to keep working and I knew things would fall into place.
checked good guys knew minute opposed record respected teammate weight
I put a lot of weight into being a good teammate as opposed to talent. From the minute he got here, he didn't big-time anybody. He got online. Checked out our team, knew our roster, knew our record and did a little research. I think guys respected that.
both games good hit looks number
In both games, we've had a number of good looks ... but we haven't hit them and it's just snowballed.
defense good importance team understand
I hope, at some point, we're all going to understand the importance of defense and how good a team we can be if we play defense.
agendas betting hard people preached sports win
Most betting people wouldn't have thought we'd win this series. From Day 1, we've preached 'team' and that's very hard to do in professional sports because a lot of them have agendas -- to get out of here and to the NBA.
dominance home
We need to re-establish the kind of dominance at home that we've lost.
gets hot offensive problems
Someone gets hot (in the playoffs). Our problems were all on offense. We were never able to get into an offensive rhythm.
entire gotten job veterans
That's veterans getting the job done. That's why they're here. They've gotten it done their entire careers.
agent explore felt goal mark nba played reach ultimate
Mark's agent called and said Mark felt he was not really going to reach his ultimate goal of getting called back up to the NBA and wanted to explore other options. Mark really played well for us.
attacked basket bonus night third
We only got into the bonus once, at the end of the third quarter. They called 26 fouls on us and 16 on them. We attacked the basket all night and were not rewarded.
although defend five four mix none pick roll seemed ways work
We have four or five ways to defend their pick and roll ? although none of them seemed to work the other night. We'll try to mix it up and try to make is so they don't even get into their pick and roll.
chance refreshed step
This will give us a chance to step away for a day or two and get refreshed and refocused.
defense hit improve stay tough
We have to improve our pick-and-roll defense and stay up on their shooters. Then again, even when we did stay up on them, they hit tough shots.
confidence pick relatively seen
We'll give Brandon some minutes. I've seen him play and I have confidence he'll pick up what we're doing relatively quickly.