Rick Carlisle
Rick Carlisle
Richard Preston "Rick" Carlisleis the head coach of the Dallas Mavericks of the National Basketball Association. He has also served as head coach of the Indiana Pacers and Detroit Pistons and was previously a player in the NBA. He is also one of only 11 people to win an NBA championship both as a player and as a coach...
ProfessionCoach
Date of Birth27 October 1959
CityOgdensburg, NY
good step team three
We did it for three quarters, but down the stretch, we just didn't. We didn't step up like a good team should.
ball crossed figured good jack laid movement open react switched
We set it up a little differently. AJ (Johnson) had been going good and we figured that they react to his movement on the court. They switched everything and got crossed up. Jack got open and laid the ball in.
guys hope possibly quickly roll rush three
We're still doing a lot of things we wanted to do, but when you don't have three 7-footers out there to go through stuff, it makes it hard. We have to roll with it and hope we can get guys back as quickly as possibly but not rush them back.
certainly changes complexion game goes scheme
We had a whole scheme set up to double-team him. He goes out of the game, it certainly changes the complexion of the game for their team.
concerns games starting win
We're going to have to win a lot of games, starting with getting our first win, and that's really the only thing that concerns me right now.
admit areas category
We can do better in some areas and we will. I admit we all have to do better. I put myself in that category as well.
good
When we had good shots, we couldn't get them to go. We weren't good enough tonight, and they were very good, really, for the whole game.
decided early played ride start third tried
We decided to go to him early (in the third quarter) and tried to ride him. He played better and much more aggressive, but we need him to do that at the start of games.
concerned shooting
We know he's going to play because he plays, but we're concerned about it because it is his shooting hand.
knew saw switch took
We knew we were going to switch (plays) if they called a timeout. They took a 20(-second timeout) once they saw our formation.
fight guys sluggish
We know we are going to have some sluggish stretches here with guys getting back. We're just going to have to fight our way through it.
course hang heads minutes ourselves stronger time trying
We're trying to hang in. We probably could have done a lot more things over the course of 48 minutes to put ourselves in a stronger position, but we didn't. We don't have much time to hang our heads about this. We've got another one tomorrow.
blame boston hung win
We have no one to blame but ourselves. I give Boston credit. They hung in and did what they have to do to win the game.
blame bunch fate lousy quarter third
We have no one to blame but ourselves. You play a lousy third quarter and give up a bunch of turnovers, you're going to tempt fate with that kind of play over a 12-minute period.