Stan Gundy Quotes (50 Quotes)

We need some guys who make it work. Sometimes you just need guys to catch the ball and move the ball and get out of the way and create spacing and things like that. I haven't seen a lot of that so far, of guys really willing to do that.

That's sort of a day-to-day thing. The idea last night was not to overly fatigue him in one stretch, and also not sit him out for too long where he tightened up.

We don't care if it's a young guy or old guy, we are looking for the group who is the best fit. But these veteran guys are smart, tough, they have experience.

I told him I thought he already had the best guy.

You can't fear change in this business.

We've got very good young guys. I've said this for 10 years, and it's certainly true again this year, maybe more so than in a lot of years. Our scouting staff, they've done an unbelievable job uncovering good young players.

It's very hard to call a flop, ... We talked about it with Bennett. You can't say a guy's flopping, so go penalize it. It's very difficult to make that determination.

They do a great job at the basket. They're a team that doesn't give up points in the paint, and it's tough to get anything to the rim, and we didn't have a lot of guys making (outside) shots.

It was a really hard fought game. We finished the game very well. That has to be the model for how to finish the game...Hopefully, we can build on this game.

I look at this game like anything that happens is good. Any mistakes you make, you're going to be able to learn from them. And if guys play well, great.

I told them all of you guys are wrong.

I thought we sucked it up and played very, very hard. ... That has to be the model for us in terms of how to finish the game.

I made this decision for one reason and one reason only I love my family.

It's hard to judge anything on one night. But it wasn't a positive.

It's related to his confidence more than anything. He's going to have to fight to get that back. He's going to have to go down probably so far that he just lets it go and starts fighting to get it back.

They wanted to win a lot more than we did. They had a lot more resolve to try to get the job done down the stretch and we were hoping we would win, we were hoping some shots went in but we didn't dig down and make any possession tough on them at the end.

The hard part is, from the outside, the expectation is that it is going to be very easy, you're just going to roll out there with your talent, ... That can lead to a lot of angst when things don't go well. There's a lot more to being a team than talent. I used the analogy of the Olympics with them. We have a lot of good individual players, but that is not going to be enough.

It's going to be a harder road for 82 games - a lot more teams competing for it. And you're going to have to be a lot better when it counts in April and May to get to where we want to go.

Now we're finally in a position to build a core. And now our job as both coaches and players is to fit the pieces together and figure out how we're going to make it work.

Those are the two biggest things, run and make open shots.

We got some good energy, and I thought we moved the ball a lot better at the start of the second half and we got out in transition. Antoine had a good run at the defensive end a little bit that got us out into transition.

If Earl and Wayne have to go in and play I'm fine with that. Those two guys are good basketball players.

I thought our defense was horrible the entire night. Besides throw the ball to Shaq, we've got to find other ways to score.

Defensively he's not there yet because he's still got a ways to go conditioning-wise, ... but he's a very good defender.

Obviously, it gets three of our guys out there who have a better idea of what we're doing.

You can dunk on him five times and he's going to be back there again the next time.

I'd love it, because I think we've got the guy in the league that more people flop on than anybody,

I expect those two guys to play at even a higher level, because I think we've got some guys that can also make the game a little easier for them.

I was writing the league. I wish they'd get tougher on it. From what they're saying, they're working on not getting fooled on the flop.

I thought that our offense was horrible the entire night. We've got to find some other ways to score besides throwing the ball to Shaq.

They are going to have to beat out those veteran guys. It is not going to be easy. At every spot there are good veteran people ahead of them.

The expectation question is a little bit overdone. I think I've got it figured out. If the expectations for your team are high, and you don't measure up, you get fired. If the expectations are low and you lose, you get fired.

He does a outstanding job of getting teams into offense, so this image of Jason Williams he's just sort of this free-wheeling guy doing his own thing out couldn't be further from the truth. There are times where you're almost surprised by how conservative he is.

You never want one of your best players to go down with an injury, but it's also a part of the game.

I like it when he takes the ball off the board. It's one of the best ways to run a break. He has the ability to do that. He showed a lot of versatility. He'll play a huge role for us.

I emerged from summer league feeling that I would have no trouble, no problem playing Wayne Simien. And I think that's the first step for any player. ... Can a coach put you in the game and feel OK about it I think he has the skills and the smarts and the toughness where you would have no problem.

I'll help out any way I can after I spend some time with my family.

Shooting under 50 percent for NBA players is absurd. Getting to the line becomes a negative for us.

I'm not saying any of that to lower our expectations. But I think it has to raise the sense of urgency on the part of our players. Even the ones coming back, if they think we can do what we did last year and we're on to the finals and then we'll hope the last 2 12 minutes will get better, that's ridiculous.

Cleveland, I don't understand why people aren't just going crazy over them,

The people out there with the 'too many stars, not enough basketballs, too many egos,' that's wrong,

Gary's a good defender with a potentially great defensive disposition,

He's probably going to miss some time, the way he was walking on it in there.

Shaquille obviously looked rusty offensively. But he looked very good on the defensive glass, and he was more active defensively than he was for big parts of last year.

He's a guy that if you tell me, 'You've got an injury or whatever and you've got to play Wayne 24 minutes a game,' I'm fine with that.

We'll see if we can make some adjustments, but we're certainly not going to panic.

I thought guys were trying to make good plays but our spacing was really fouled up.

You never want one of your best players going down with an injury. It's all also part of the game. We're already dealing with three veteran guys out, now a fourth veteran guy out, so some of these young guys are going to have to step up and play.

We've gone very, very hard for six days. We haven't backed off them even one day yet. We went probably longer and harder Sunday ever than we have gone. We've had all this time of working real hard, and just mentally they need to do something else, play against somebody else. That'll be good for them.

He seemed like he was in some pain and obviously disappointed because he wants to play.