513 Quotes by Flip Saunders

Players in that league are trying to get here. So a guy that is up here and goes down, they want a chance to see how hungry he really is.

You talk about a point guard that can do everything -- that's Chauncey. He can make the 3, he can pass, he can defend, he makes free throws and he scores.

I don't think you can chase anything. Anytime you chase something, you never end up catching it. So it if comes, it comes.

But most of the things has to be, as far as staying aggressive in your initial offense, not searching out the three.

Part of it is teams that were not very good have gotten better, which makes for a much more competitive conference. What developed for a few years in the Western Conference has now come back to the East, where there aren't really any gimme games.

Any time you take a job where a team won the championship and got within five minutes of winning another, you wonder, how are they going to accept you? But they've been very open to coaching, very open to doing whatever we've asked.

I don't think it's even an issue. He's going to be fine.

You're in a situation where the other team doesn't have anything to lose. Their backs are against the wall, and they're going to come out and play with a great amount of energy. They're going to play with confidence from the way they've played their last couple games. You know going in about that situation, so you know you have to go in and have a superior performance. You can't just come out and have an average performance.

For whatever reason, we just weren't as mentally alert. We had a lot of mental breakdowns on defense, and offensively we didn't make the extra pass as often as we normally do. You hate to say it, but we just didn't have it tonight.