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
floor great guy leaders locker
He's an important guy on the floor and an important guy in the locker room, too. He's one of our leaders on this team. It's great having him back.
help
Any help we can get will be appreciated.
energy minutes plays
As long as he plays with this kind of energy and force, he'll get minutes and make things happen.
challenge coming extra guys needed schedule stretch
It made it an extra challenge because guys coming back needed the reps. The schedule is what it is. We're about to go through another stretch after this two-day break.
feels game good hope tough wait
It's a significant situation. It is day to day, but it's one of these things that's tough to gauge. We hope he feels good enough to play in Game 6, but I don't know; we'll have to wait and see.
basketball certainly defend defense guys high iq learning pick player playing process solid strengths system tendencies
It's about learning the league, learning the guys he's playing against, what their tendencies are and what their strengths are because those are important things to defend well, ... We have a system of defense that's solid and he's in the process of learning that. For him, he's an experienced enough player and certainly has a high enough basketball IQ that he can pick it up quickly.
decision errors forcing fourth terrible tough undoing
Our decision making and turnovers were our undoing in the fourth quarter. We were forcing them to take tough shots, and then we just made terrible errors down the stretch.
action both expect multiple playing
They're both probably going to be playing multiple positions, so that can also make it tricky. But I expect both of them to be into the action pretty quickly.
confidence positive
They're going to play, and for us to win, they're going to have to have a positive impact. We have a lot of confidence that they can.
appeared bounce early establish game good team tone
It was a big bounce back game for our team. I thought Jermaine set the tone for our team early in the game. The way it unfolded, it appeared he had a pretty good sense on how to establish himself.
ability lucky maybe miss next replace week
There's no way to replace his energy, his athleticism and his playmaking ability at that position. We miss him defensively. We're lucky he doesn't have to have surgery, and if we're lucky, maybe we will be able to get him back next week sometime.
bone pulled
The tendon pulled part of the bone off.
flight meet strides
If he's making some significant strides we have a flight set up for him to meet us in Toronto.
everybody games needed
It was one of those games we needed everybody to play well and they did.