513 Quotes by Flip Saunders

He's in a great rhythm. When you get someone who's playing in a rhythm, you don't want to change their routine. He feels comfortable, and he's playing well.

He causes problems. He has improved his perimeter game so much.

Ben was great. He showed tonight why I keep saying he's the best defensive player in our league.

We have the ability to get by without him, but he's going to want to play. That's how he is. I don't anticipate anything holding him back from playing, and playing a lot of minutes.

It's a five-step process. One, you want to get in the playoffs. We did that about two weeks ago. You want to win your division, which is going to pretty much lock in home court, at least through the first two rounds. Now what you want to do is secure home court in the East. Then secure home court overall and then the championship.

This was a good overall game for us. We did what we said we were looking to do with these last few games. We were sharp, we played a lot of people and were able to keep the starters' minutes down.

Every team has a chance to win, whether you are playing Detroit, Miami, New Jersey or whoever. There are no bargains in this thing where somebody is just going to walk through the first round. That's just how this league operates.

He can get a jump shot whenever he wants, he can get to the basket almost whenever he wants, and he just does things so easy.

Those guys, they play hard no matter what the score is. They've got a lot of athletes and they keep on trying hard to come at you.