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
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It's not an ideal situation, but Danny has started a lot of games (17) for us this year. We've been down that road.
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These next six games he has to get himself conditioned back to the NBA game, ... I thought he played well. There's daily improvement in his physical redevelopment.
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These next six games he has to get himself conditioned back to the NBA game. I thought he played well. There's daily improvement in his physical redevelopment.
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The emotionally charged and highly competitive nature of our games is one of the things that makes it compelling to our fans. The fine line you walk as a player or coach is that you have to channel those emotions in a way that's not harmful to your team or the game. That's the situation we're dealing with. My sense was it was getting better year to year.
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After games, emotions sometimes take over a little bit. The bottom line is we have six games to make this right. We'll find out if we deserve it or not.
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The last six games, we've done a lot of things very well. We've done certain things better than we were doing them before.
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It was one of those games we needed everybody to play well and they did.
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The guys got together and decided to make a stand. If we hadn't won three straight games, we could easily be out of the playoff picture.
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As a staff we have to keep coaching hard and keep getting these guys prepared to play. The games keep coming. That's just the way it is in this league. We're going to fight our way out of this as a group collectively: players, coaches and everybody. Losing streaks are no fun.
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This is going to be a process for him. I would think it's going to be 20 to 30 games before he really starts to feel comfortable after being off for that long.
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At the start of the game he struggled. Of all the games that he's played in it was the worst start to a game that he's had. He got three quick fouls.
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It got hairy at the end, but it's going to be hairy at times. You've just got to be able to find a way to win. The importance of it is being able to stop the run.
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They took the game to us. It just looked like they were everywhere and our feet were stuck in the mud.
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I would like to see us play perfectly every time. But that's not going to happen. We understand this year we're going to be judged on how we do as a group. It's as simple as that.