Maurice Cheeks Quotes on Time (10 Quotes)

For me, it's a pretty sad moment, because I played for Jimmy. He's always been a part of my coaching, the reason being he's a guy who has been through every situation imaginable. Any time something happened on or off the court, he would either beat me to coming to ask him what I should do, or I'd be going to him anyway. That's the reason why he's going to be missed so much.

I don't think Kyle is our best on-the-ball defender, but as an off-the-ball defender, he's pretty good. I don't have a problem with Kyle being in the game at that particular time.

I'm hoping I'm here a long time, ... Stability can go a long way for players and teams. They know what to expect.

We had some good players, we had some good guys on the team, but some things kept happening time after time and that's all people talked about, ... The things that they did, the dysfunctional things that happened, a lot of that became a part of the Portland Trail Blazers, and that was unfortunate.

He catches the ball and releases it so quick. I think thats whats so impressive about him. I think if youre not around Kyle that much, and Ive been talking defense this whole camp, but any time you see a player with his ability to shoot the ball hes got to be on the floor.

We cant rely on going home. We have to start building ourselves a little momentum -- take it one step at a time and take it one game at a time.

We see zone from time to time, but we certainly dont see it for a whole quarter. If you make shots, if you make some dribble penetration against the zone, they come out of it. We never did. We never made a shot and they had no reason to come out of it.

He is one player that I'm not concerned about (with) his minutes. There was a time when I thought about taking him out of the game, and he started getting in a nice flow.

He's a pretty good one-on-one player, a pretty good defender. We're just trying to get him back in the flow, let him get some practice time.

It had nothing to do with Chris himself, it had everything to do with the game. When you make that decision, you've got to live with it. That's exactly what I'm doing... I was doing what I thought was right at the time. It's not like he was not going to help us win the game. In fact, we may have won the game if I put him in. We had a conversation we talked about it, and I think it's OK.