Stan Gundy
Stan Gundy
analogy angst expectation good hard individual lead olympics roll team
The hard part is, from the outside, the expectation is that it is going to be very easy, you're just going to roll out there with your talent, ... That can lead to a lot of angst when things don't go well. There's a lot more to being a team than talent. I used the analogy of the Olympics with them. We have a lot of good individual players, but that is not going to be enough.
basketball fine good guys wayne
If Earl and Wayne have to go in and play I'm fine with that. Those two guys are good basketball players.
fine good ready wayne
If Earl and Wayne have to ... play, I'm fine with that. They're good players. They've been working their butts off to be ready to play.
good knock looking needs obviously shoot shots
He's a very, very good passer and he can shoot the ball. He needs to knock down perimeter shots for us consistently. That's obviously something that we're looking for right now.
defender defensive good great
Gary's a good defender with a potentially great defensive disposition,
good ways
Defensively he's not there yet because he's still got a ways to go conditioning-wise, ... but he's a very good defender.
energy good liked
There were a lot of good things tonight. More than anything I really liked our energy and our intensity.
active defensive good last looked obviously parts rusty
Shaquille obviously looked rusty offensively. But he looked very good on the defensive glass, and he was more active defensively than he was for big parts of last year.
fatigue last night overly sit sort
That's sort of a day-to-day thing. The idea last night was not to overly fatigue him in one stretch, and also not sit him out for too long where he tightened up.
flop guy league love people
I'd love it, because I think we've got the guy in the league that more people flop on than anybody,
finish model played sucked terms
I thought we sucked it up and played very, very hard. ... That has to be the model for us in terms of how to finish the game.
hopefully rock trying
This is hopefully rock bottom. Everybody's trying to go one-on-one.
obviously
I don't even know what I was thinking. Obviously I wasn't in my right mind.
fine guy injury minutes wayne whatever
He's a guy that if you tell me, 'You've got an injury or whatever and you've got to play Wayne 24 minutes a game,' I'm fine with that.