Bob Weiss Quotes (46 Quotes)

There's not a guy that is in the gym who cannot play in the NBA,

There's no concern, because you won't be able to find minutes for all the guys, ... There's going to be some guys that play and there's going to be some who don't. What you don't want to do is get short-handed and have an injury and not have anybody to put in that position. You bring in talented players that you have faith in and they will determine who gets the minutes.

We're going to watch this entire tape, ... and we're going to take responsibility, all of us, to see what we're doing wrong.

Petro had played a long time and I wanted one vet in there (with the rookies) and I needed a guy that could play center.

We wanted to make the shots from the outside and keep them off the line. We started going for fakes and letting them go to the hoop on us.

It was just time to take a look at him, ... He had done fine in the scrimmages, so I wanted to give him a look. We went with Johan and were pleasantly surprised. The guy plays like he belongs out there - there's no fear, no apprehension. He just goes out and runs, plays hard.

If he doesn't convince me he is ready shortly, then we might do something.

The young guys did a good job in the third quarter. I know they got tired, but I didn't want to come back with the veterans.

That's the difference. But they've got to see that and understand that.

He's an NBA player. We'll watch him wherever he goes.

He (Reggie) did a great job today. He hadn't been here for some of the things we were discussing on defense, but he picked up on it pretty quickly. He'll be fine.

He told me it was bothering him, and I told him if it hurts even a little bit to just sit out. I am going to have a hard time getting everybody minutes anyway.

I can't tell you how many flight attendants came up to me and told me we have the nicest team in the league to fly with. To me, how they treat people is more important than how they dress.

Nick needs to learn that positioning, and it will come with experience. He has come a long way and I give him a lot of credit.

He is a lot further along than I thought he'd be. If he keeps improving like this, he will be on the floor a little bit.

You find after you've been out of basketball for a little while you start to get the itch again. And he's been working with young people all along with teaching and he's been good at that. He said he had some interest in getting back in.

We have some very impressive rookies, ... It's going to be tough to make the last cut. We just have some NBA-caliber people we're going to have to let go.

I didn't think he swung the elbows. I thought he stepped through. Late is the only time I saw an elbow come out of it. But he said he was getting fouled the whole time.

I thought he had a good camp, but in the games he has not been as good as I thought he would be.

I haven't heard any results from the blood tests, but he seems to be over the hump. Whatever it was, the blow or a flu bug, we don't know.

I'm also trying to get Vladimir's legs back under him, ... He has not played much. He had 16 minutes tonight, which is a little bit more than last time. I imagine next time we'll stretch him out a little further.

When you are injured, you're out of the picture. Right now, Reggie is playing really well, and so we'll just see how it goes. We got a lot of time left.

I can't fault our guys on their hustle. They won every hustle category. ... But where we're messing up is that their first four shots are in the paint. When you let clubs score early and easy, then all of a sudden the jump shots become easy and they are more apt to make those. If you make them start from the outside, then you have a chance.

We were a little dead tonight. But we're NBA players and we all have to go through time changes and playing on the road. Overall as a team, we need to maximize our effort and play with a lot more energy.

He's going to play, unless he's hurt.

I thought our young guys did a good job playing for us in the third quarter,

You have to coach with your personality, and hopefully that won't change too much. Now you've got to make the decisions and be the bad guy in some people's eyes.

He can go for a while, and then if he hits it wrong, it acts up on him,

A lot of teams play with much more confidence at home. We seem to play the same both places. I'm not exactly sure why that is, but that's kind of been the profile of this team.

I would have liked him to get a steady 10 minutes a game by now. He needs to work on his defensive rebounding. We just want him to relax a little. At times he looks almost ready and at others he is making the same mistakes over and over again.

The organization wants the best basketball team out there, ... We'll have to make the evaluations.

We watch his show every night. We enjoy his humor and at least it's someone besides Whoopi Goldberg or Billy Crystal. You can't bring back Jack Paar or Johnny Carson, so let's see what happens.

I thought it was severe.

On offense, the point guard can see everything, he's got everything in front of him, so he directs the offense, ... Defense, usually the only guy who can see everything is the center. So when that guy talks, he can help a lot of people if he's vocal on defense.

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I let the rookies play it out. I know Scales and forward Noel Felix were tired, but they gave us some good minutes. Our objective right now is to try and decide who is going to make the team.

Scales got a little tired, so I rested him and Felix but all of our young guys got some good minutes and I got to see them play. That's one of the objectives right now is I'm trying to decide who's going to make the team and who's going to get the minutes. That's what we're looking at.

I thought as a starter he'd end up with three quick fouls last night, ... Of course, Yao (Ming) wasn't there, so that helped a lot, but (Dikembe) Mutombo 's a big, strong guy too, and he didn't back down.

He couldn't do anything live everything was just running plays, that kind of situation. Right now, he's getting his strenuous workout, so we'll see how he feels. I think he's going to be available for (Saturday). Right now, we're expecting him to play.

Exactly how and when we'd use that, we're not sure yet, ... I don't think it would be for a while, because we want him here, we want him working in structure, we want him working against NBA guys. At a point sometime in the season when we're going to practice less and going to be traveling a lot maybe and he would not be getting minutes, that would be the time to send him to the D League and let him get some experience.

We cut it to eight and get a big stop and they call Danny for throwing elbows. I thought that was a big play.

We know we shot ourselves in the foot probably five times, and if we won three of those games we'd be leading the division. Yet, we feel like we're just horrible. We're very, very close and so we just have to keep after it.

Everybody made errors in that game, but unfortunately for Luke, you always remember the last one. So he feels worse than anybody about that. How he responds We'll see.

We'll take him along, ... We want him to see the game, see what's going right, see what's going wrong.

At the beginning of the season, Damien wasn't playing as well as he did last year. He calmed down. It looked like it was forcing it a little bit. He was trying to get playing time like a lot of our guys. I think he felt like he had to score to be out there.

We held them in their cafeteria until we finished our tests and determined there was no danger to them,