513 Quotes by Flip Saunders

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    Wally has been very important to us, but he hasn't been starting for us. So it's not like we have to change a lot how we approach the game.

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    I thought we did some nice things. We built a lead, then you relax a little bit and they made some plays, but it wasn't where we didn't have control of the game.

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    We wanted to try to start establishing our bench more, so basically we're playing three guys and giving those guys a little bit more minutes.

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    The satisfying thing is, right now we've put basically 16 games in the loss column between us and the next closest team in our division. When you can do that with 26 games to go, you're in pretty good shape.

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    The biggest thing that I was impressed with was the last three or four minutes, our defense was (good). It we played like that for 48 (minutes), we'd make things a lot easier for ourselves.

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    I thought we might have played 10 to 13 minutes of championship basketball tonight. We won the game, but there are things we need to work on.

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    We ran some things we hadn't run in a while, just to dust them off a little bit and do them in a game-type situation.

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    There are no unknowns at this point. But from their standpoint, the X-factor is that they are a team that takes as many three-pointers as anybody. If they get hot like they can, they can cause you a lot of problems. But, one of our strengths all year was defending the three. Hope that continues.

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    I thought we made great adjustments in the second half. You can talk about turning it up, but I think the big thing is that our team has the ability to see how a team plays, then make the adjustments to get into their weaknesses. You can turn up your energy, but you still have to be able to beat the other team.

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