Eddie Jordan Quotes (163 Quotes)

The thing I really like is that he's aggressive, but he also takes care of the basketball, ... The last two years he's been very high in assist-to-turnover ratio. When you can attack like he can and you don't turn the ball over and you make the right decisions, that's a real plus for us.

They are meshing a little bit better. They are making plays, playing off the dribble, and they are aware of their spacing. We are more patient, with a little bit more trust.

We have to let it seep out and get over it. And as the night goes along and it turns into a long morning we have to come back together and go to work and win a game on Sunday.

They made some shots. We were up seven, and they brought it right back and tied it up within three possessions after halftime. And we just never really responded at a high level. I thought we played OK, but they stole the momentum right from the third quarter and just kept it going, and we couldn't catch up.

It's the first time I've ever seen Dwayne Wade under control from our team. And yet they still prevailed.

We're working on it. Both sides are working on it. We need to have a (good) working relationship with the officials no matter how much we disagree, and fans must see it.

We know we're short on pieces, ... We're trying to hold down the fort. Actually, this is beyond trying to hold down the fort because this is probably, really, who we've got. We're talented enough to win some games. As long as we have Gil and Larry and some bigs Brendan Haywood, Brown, Thomas, Michael Ruffin we have some hope.

This process will be very important, ... The first steps are very important. His behavior, his habits and then getting to the basketball aspects of it. The physical nature of the game, the quickness of the game, the pace of the game. All of it is going to hit him at once and this is just the first level. When you talk about summer league you're talking about free agents and rookies and guys who are just trying to make teams. The intensity level is going to be greater than anything he's experienced.

He gives us the ability to come off the bench and score in different ways, ... Post-ups, slashing to the basket and he brings a toughness to our defense. And he wants to win.

He came back a lot more focused, with a lot more concentration and a little bit more humble. We'll see where it goes from here.

Daniels has been real big for us, especially late in games. He's playing at a very high level. When he's out there, he can spread the floor, which is good for everybody. He enables us to get Gilbert Arenas off the point. He gives us a lot. He's really making it hard for me to take him off the court.

I have to give our guys a lot of credit. They really fought their tales off. They dug down defensively and made big shots at the end.

This was a good win for us tonight. We were competitive and were more organized down the stretch. Tonight we talked about not being impatient on defense, and playing each position for the full 24 seconds. There is no reason why we cannot play like this fo

Most importantly, I thought our offense let us down, and it hurt our defense. The Big Three have to understand we have to share the ball. We have to get equal opportunity, and we have to attack in a disciplined matter. We didn't do that. We were playing selfish basketball.

We're looking at a healing process tomorrow. We're going to need some type of therapy. We've got to get our minds on positive things. It's not easy getting over things like this, but we've got to move ahead.

I thought we did a decent job (of defending James) early, four minutes I guess, and then he started breaking us down and making shots. Then we tried to double-team those pick and rolls and he started finding people.

I wanted to give the rookie a taste, ... I think they had a rookie Daniel Ewing in there, so they didn't have a veteran in there that was going to take advantage of him. I thought it would be good to get him something at home. He was what I expected from a rookie with his energy and his quickness.

I've been very fortunate to coach a guy like Gilbert. His growth and maturity has improved tremendously since his first season. He cares about the team. He cares about winning. He's a tremendous talent and he's only 24.

It's such a luxury in the NBA to have a four man or five man who can step out and make those long shots, ... If you cannot contain the ball, which we've had some trouble with, those type of big men are going to step up and either score on dunks or they are going to draw and kick to another big guy who can knock down that shot.

He wants to win - that is his No. 1 priority. He is a leader for this team in a different way. He is not loud, verbal or demonstrative, but he leads by gutting it out and fighting for rebounds. He can score from the outside, in the paint and on runners. He has emerged as a major leader for us during this stretch of games.

Two different teams -- us. We were on top of things in Utah. We played 48 minutes of concentrated basketball. Here was just the opposite. I hope it's just a one-time thing. I'm searching for answers when guys don't play well I'm trying to find the right mix. It just didn't work out today.

He just said, 'OK, Coach,' and that was the extent of it. It was a very brief conversation, and he was agreeable. I'm sure he's going to be professional. He's always played well under these circumstances. He's always responded the right way on the floor.

I think police officers are using common sense in making arrests. A person taking water would be a certain kind of situation versus a person taking a big screen television.

The message I sent to them at halftime was that we were getting by on our talent, not on our execution and that has to improve, ... We were not organized on and our press offense wasn't good so those are things we worked on in practice Wednesday. We have to be sharper.

It's going to be a good challenge. The competition with them at training camp is going to be at a high level because there is not an etched-in-stone starting lineup.

We designed it just right. We just wanted to make sure that Kobe would not get a good look. Calvin was very instrumental in it. Kobe tried to turn and make a pass, and it just slipped out of his hand. That is a part of fatigue. He is a great player. We take the challenge to go against someone like him.

I was thinking I'd just made one of the biggest blunders in playoff history.

New Jersey stepped up when winning time came. They did a good job of picking their spots. I thought we got a little bit disjointed, a little bit distracted and we didn't have a clear head as a unit to get it done tonight.

We don't have designated defensive studs out there. We have to do it by committee. We have to do it by team.

We just needed to make room for him and make a decision on those minutes. We thought he was a guy who had to play because he gets after it defensively and he's very flexible.

We have to find ways to limit his touches. Can we deny him more times, more possessions When we do double, can we get out of the double team and get out to the shooters

No doubt Cosworth will build a brilliant V8 as it's their forte, ... But, sadly, bigger budgets will dominate.

If we want to bring those people to justice, we have to have a district attorney's office,

He's been playing like that all of training camp, ... Hitting the offensive glass, getting put-backs he's very aggressive. He stroked the ball today -- he's been getting better at shooting the basketball. He's made a heck of an impact on my mind about where he's at with our team.

Today there was a collective effort. We are riding the momentum that we started three games ago. Caron did a really good job defensively. He is really embracing the role that we assigned him as the defensive captain, and we are just riding a wave right now.

We were not competing in the paint, and we are getting distracted a little bit by what's going on out on the floor, not getting through a little bit of adversity whether you think it's a bad call or good defense against you. But for the most part they just outplayed us, and they deserved to win.

It's early. They've been on an East Coast trip. I don't want to measure our team as far as predicting how good we are or will be.

We hope that the next few days will help him.

He's a professional. He probably made a slight mistake by going public before he had a conversation with the GM, but I've said all along he's been a professional on the floor at practice, in the locker room, on the planes, on busses. I never saw any real unhappiness or anything like that.

We played well for a full 48 minutes today. We did a lot of good things out there, particularly with our defense.

It's a more experienced team that knows what to expect, ... Everybody was on time. There were no incidents at camp. Everyone competed at the highest level. That's all you can ask for. When you compete at a high level, you see some growth as far as coming together.

He's had it going from outside ever since January. It looked like it was going in. I thought we fought hard and we gave ourselves a chance to win at the end, which is all you can ask for.

New York is a team that is not playing well and we didn't play down to their level. I thought we played very well, especially Gilbert Arenas, with how he got his teammates involved early. We played the right way.

It's a fragile, sensitive league, but it's not going to make or break the season.

We all know, everybody in this organization, everybody in this arena, that we have a special player.

We played hard, but they played harder. They made plays and we couldn't make plays at the offensive end. I thought we competed very hard, but we couldn't keep up with their offense.

We have a plan as far as getting him some games down there, getting him back up here for some practice time and probably activate him for a game somewhere along the line, ... It's a development thing for him.

We gave ourselves a chance and they hit a tough shot at the end. The credit goes to them.

I thought we had a good look. It was too bad it didn't go in. We did the best we could with Yao with the small lineup we played with. We made Yao miss some shots and I was proud of our team.

We're not going out there playing a 50-win Seattle team of last year. We're not going out there to play a Sacramento team that's won 92 percent of its games at home. It's a little bit of a different flavor out there.