When I watch film, they played zone, ... They just didn't call it zone.
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When you play great ones, it's the team assignment. You have to make him a volume scorer. You can't let him get 30 points on 18 shots. What you want to is keep him out of the free-throw line, make him take a lot of shots if you can.Flip Saunders
I thought, 'You're coming to a team that just won a championship and was five minutes away from winning another,' so your question is how receptive will they be to what you want to do,
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The positive was we defended down the stretch. That's what we're going to have to do when playoff time comes.
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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.
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I thought that (since) these guys play together, they can get some organization. We went through some stuff with Paul, and he seemed to pick things up and play pretty well with those guys and gave us another dimension.
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It really helps any time you have it. The coach is the authority figure, and you've got to be able to communicate with players. Over the course of seven months, things are going to happen, and you've got to deal with those situations. The main thing is the players know that I respect them. It's because of that mutual respect that we're able to deal with any kind of situation.
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