Terry Stotts
Terry Stotts
Terry Linn Stottsis an American retired professional basketball forward and the current head coach for the Portland Trail Blazers of the NBA. After a playing career in Europe and the Continental Basketball Association, where he played for George Karl, Stotts became a part of Karl's coaching staff on multiple teams in the CBA and NBA. He later got opportunities as a head coach for the Atlanta Hawks and Milwaukee Bucks, before helping the Dallas Mavericks win the 2011 NBA Championship...
ProfessionCoach
Date of Birth25 November 1957
CityCedar Falls, IA
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This was a big win for us. There is no two ways about it. Boston has been playing well and we needed a win in a big way and I was proud of the way our guys gutted it out and we had a lot of contributions from a lot of people and we did a lot of the little things that you need to do to win on the road.
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The starting lineup has been solid. Some nights they get off to good starts, some nights they don't. If you do make a change in the starting lineup, it kind of singles out a guy. I think we're close to having a lot more wins than we have and I don't think changing the starting lineup does anything.
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As good as we were in Seattle over that five-year period, and that five-year period was as good a five-year period as there had been in the history of the league, I don't know if we had a 14-game winning streak.
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I like the way we started the game. But the tone was set for the game in the second quarter when we had all the turnovers. It's good to get a win and you certainly don't want to belittle a win on the road.
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I told the team before the game that I really felt our offense would come even though we were missing Michael, and we had to focus on the defensive end of the court to win the game.
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It was a quality win against a good team. I'm really proud of how we've picked it up defensively over the last 10 games. ... I thought the contributions from everybody were really good. Our starters defensively set the tone early and they stood up late.
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It was a tough game. And we pressed for 36 minutes. In the fourth game in five nights, to show commitment to winning a game we needed to have, the guys showed a lot of heart and character.
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I think what this trade does is put us, hopefully, in the forefront of being a playoff team. We want to make the transition easy for Andrew.
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Our turnovers led to their transition and we didn't do much to stop them.
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Kobe had a terrific game. We probably did a good job on him, actually -- after the way he started off. He made his foul shots down the stretch, but for 2 1-2 quarters, we did as good a job as you could ask for.
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Joe is still playing limited minutes and he's still in an adjustment period as far as managing the game. And managing if you want to save his (last) 2 or 3 minutes until the end of the game or not.
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Joe and Charlie's rehabs are going well, but we haven't even looked at a return date for those two guys. They're both on track and where we want them to be.
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Michael played a terrific game. It was entertaining, but I'm not taking much consolation in that.
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With a four-point lead, we didn't do a good enough job of stopping Carter down the stretch. You want to make him shoot as far out as possible and keep him away from the basket. He got a lot of calls going to the basket.