Scott Skiles

Scott Skiles
Scott Allen Skilesis an American basketball coach and former player. He most recently served as the head coach of the Orlando Magic. He also coached the Phoenix Suns, Chicago Bulls, and Milwaukee Bucks. A first-round draft pick out of Michigan State University, Skiles played ten seasons as a point guard in the NBA. He holds the NBA record for assists in one game with 30, set in his fifth season in the league and second with Orlando, in which he...
ProfessionCoach
Date of Birth5 March 1964
CityLa Porte, IN
field foul goals hard juggle players stop time trouble win
Most games, when you have more field goals than your opponent, you win in our league. For us, most times, we haven't won. We just juggle players because of foul trouble too much, and we've had a hard time to stop it.
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Jason Kidd is always capable of something like that on a given night, (Steve) Nash, too. But the opponent had so much to do with that night, that it's hard to envision.
beat hard period short team trying twice
The hard thing is trying to beat a team twice in a short period of time. It's always difficult.
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I thought we played hard tonight. We kind of had a pop to our step most of the game. We made too many mistakes and missed too many shots.
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Normally, I can watch a bunch of 9-year-olds play Little League baseball and spot the leader right away. It's not that hard to spot. People pretty much are who they are. But I've seen people make inroads in that regard, too, so I really don't know the answer to that.
chain dealing events hard setting time
He's setting off a chain of events that we're having a hard time dealing with.
awful guys hard magic means paying spent system time
It means the guys are working very hard at it and it's paying off. There's no magic in that, really. It's just that we have the a system that we teach, and the guys have spent the time getting it down. We've spent an awful lot of time on it.
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The stat sheet does not really show it, but they pretty much out-played us from beginning to end. We had a hard time in the early going even following our simple game plan. We tried different lineups to keep it close. In the third quarter, they took advantage of us and we could not do much to stop them.
phenomenal shoot
He was on. When he's on like that, he can shoot over people. His threes were dialed in. It was a phenomenal display.
fought game guys happy moral played until
I'm happy we played hard, but that should be a given. Our guys fought right until the end, but at this level, there are no moral victories. It's a game we should have won.
bizarre crazy happens maybe
I think that, if maybe something so bizarre ever happens one time, (the NBA) will take a look at (the seeding system). That's probably what it's going to take. Some crazy thing.
kirk team
I've said it many times, Kirk does so many things for our team that his shot-making is down the list.
burned experience free tried whenever
It's possible. I have the unfortunate experience of . . . whenever I have tried it, he has burned us. He has made (the free throws).
attacked jump looked panicked practice yesterday
I thought we looked panicked right from the jump ball. The way that we attacked them in Philadelphia, and in practice yesterday and then the shoot-around, we just went away from those things.