Maurice Cheeks Quotes on Games (14 Quotes)

I certainly thought we'd win more than 43 games.

That's not the best defense you can play. Our defense just has to get better in order for us to win games. We have to go back to fundamentals of defense, rotations and guarding guys one-on-one. You have to want to play defense.

It's us trying to stay together, which we will, and to keep working to figuring out how to win games. There are a lot of things we've got to work on.

We're in that phase. It's been 50 games. We should have some consistency by now. But we're not there. We just haven't put it together. That's why we have the record we have.

Any time you don't have a player like Allen play for four consecutive games, you're going to miss him. You're going to miss his scoring, his drive, a lot of things.

Fortunately for us, he missed the plane yesterday. That's why you don't travel on the day of games.

We need one. We're entitled to one, I think. We've been going down to the wire a lot of games. Sometimes it feels good for the players and myself to play a game where you don't have to worry about somebody getting an offensive rebound or making a last-second shot to win a basketball game. For us, we needed that.

Chris and Allen didn't have great offensive games, but they were passing the ball. I thought the way we defended and rebounded the ball was big for us. I thought one of the keys for us was that we got some easy baskets.

We wanted to let them know that's where we're going to win games, is on the defensive end. I think that's where you go. You don't try and put too much on them, but they know the drills that they're doing on the floor is the way we're going to play.

Not at all. We just need to play the way we have been playing the last couple of games.

It's something we talked about in this new season to do different things in terms of being a leader out on the floor. That means sharing the basketball and taking over the game when he has to. These three games, he has been phenomenal.

She can't take the intensity of the games. She never could. She can turn it off if she watches it on TV.

They're just fighting to get a second seed. We're trying to get a seed so it means a lot more to us to go out there and play the way we've been playing the last few games.

It's just a little more attention to detail. It's realizing if we're going to have a chance to win games, we're going to have to defend.