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
feeling
We're going to see how he's feeling tomorrow.
looks margin players situation zero
We're down a lot of players and it looks like we may be down another. We're in a situation where we have zero margin for error.
ball behind eight figure fly pants personnel points score seat terms ways
We're behind the eight ball in terms of our personnel that are available. We're going to have to fly by the seat of our pants here, and figure out enough ways to score enough points and get stops.
bad battle decision defensive fight finish possession rebound uphill
We'd get close, then we'd make a bad decision or not be able to finish off a defensive possession with a rebound and things like that. They'd go from up one to five; then we'd have to fight back. It was just an uphill battle all night.
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.