Maurice Cheeks Quotes on Chance (6 Quotes)

If you give teams like (Detroit) so many second chances, it is going to come back and haunt you. And that's what it did.

We want to funnel the ball to him on defense. And you know what He's a much better offensive player than people give him credit for. We're going to give him a chance to show it.

Certainly, you're disappointed. The hardest part for anybody, and certainly for me, is to know you're not in it and that you failed. Failed is a hard word to say. When you set a goal for yourself to get in the playoffs and have a chance to win a championship, that means I failed in trying to accomplish what I came here to accomplish.

The game was such a seesaw game. We were down 16 points and it didn't look like we had a chance of getting back in the game, and then things started transpiring. ... Hopefully we can build off that (today) and let the emotion from that game just carry us throughout.

Coming into a building like this, playing a very good basketball team like this, you know if you get up 20 points they're going to make a run. They had a chance at the end. But our attention to detail was big, from the first minute of the game to the last minute.

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.