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
ball came casual lead nice run second sloppy tried
We had a nice lead at halftime. Then we came out casual with the ball and sloppy with everything that we tried to run in the second half.
burned tried whenever
Whenever I've tried it, he's burned us. But it would be on the table.
advantage beginning early following game hard sheet simple stop third time took tried
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.
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).
hard missed mistakes played pop step
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.
defense hot johnson playing three tired
I thought we got a little tired after playing sensational defense for three quarters. Then Johnson started getting hot and they got close.
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.
battle both game good knew level plays raised second
I thought the way that game unfolded made that a very good win. We knew we'd have a battle in the second half. We battled and made a lot of big plays on both ends. When it got really tight, we raised our level of play.
average following game job overall played
I thought overall we played better tonight. We have a lot of energy. We did a better than average job of following the game plan. We could have had the game in regulation. We just weren't able to get it.
overall
I thought overall it was one of Kirk's better games.
capable given hard jason opponent
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.
ball game games guys learning playoff ready row second
Our guys always come back. But it was the second game in a row we weren't ready to play when the ball went up. We're still learning on the fly. We don't have guys with 30, 40, 60 games of playoff experience.
bit game offensive
We got back in the game and then short-circuited a little bit with some offensive fouls. We battled them all the way to the end. We just couldn't make the plays.
attempts bad knock line step
We do this a lot. It's bothersome. When you don't get to the line very much, and then you get there and can't make them, that's a bad combination. We have to be able to step up there and knock them down because we're trending up in our attempts a little bit.