Quote:
Rome: "You know, when you look at your head coach, Flip Saunders, is he the kind of guy that can get your attention and motivate and inspire you guys, or because you're veterans do you just know what you need to do to get it done?"
Billups: "Well I think, you know, because we've been there so much together with each other, you know what I'm saying...that's where you pull your confidence from. You know, some people misunderstand it as, you know, we're arrogant or cocky...and we're not either of those, but we're confident because we've been in so many situations...every possible situation that you could be in in a playoff series, we've been in. And we've been able to overcome a lot of them, not all of them, a lot of them. So that's where you pull your confidence from."
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Offering no mention of Flip, Billups sorta confirmed what many of us have surmised over the last 3 years. The players rely on each other...sometimes it works and sometimes it doesn't.
TNT's broadcast of recent locker room speeches by Flip have seemed less than inspiring to me. It's almost like the guys couldn't wait for his babble to be over with and they just wanted to hit the floor.
Wouldn't this team be even better with a coach the players respected?