Rick Adelman Quotes


You've got to give yourself a chance in the fourth quarter. I don't know what we were down in the fourth quarter and we turned it over three times in a row and that was a killer. You can't do that. It was just unforced turnovers. - Rick Adelman


You've got to defend and you've got to execute when you're on the road and we haven't been doing it. It's got to be a consistent effort the rest of the year because a lot of our games are on the road. I think we can get there. We have the team. We have the wherewithal within the games to attack people. But we have to finish games. - Rick Adelman


You want to know who's really underrated? It's Shawn Marion. He's just as effective as Steve Nash is for that team. If they didn't have him, they wouldn't have the same team. - Rick Adelman


You have to get in his vision. You can't let him think he has an angle or a gap to attack to he's too quick. But he got to the basket a number of times, and, yeah, he beat his guy, and we were very slow reacting. - Rick Adelman


You can't lose two guys like that without having a lot of problems. Those are the guys you play around and it changes everything when they are not there. It doesn't mean you can't win, but it sure makes it hard to coach until you get those guys back. - Rick Adelman


You can't expect him not to have feelings about this, but I expect him to be able to handle things. It's not been an easy situation. It's not the best thing to happen when you're on a six-game road trip. - Rick Adelman


Who matches up well with them? Detroit, maybe. - Rick Adelman


When you're eight games under .500, things don't look very good. But I liked the way we finished. - Rick Adelman


When you look at the team since we made the trade, we were in games, but we just couldn't get over the hump. The team's really getting accustomed to what we've got to do to win. We think we can beat anybody at this point. ... There's expectations for us now, and that's a good thing. When there's no expectations, it's no fun. It's drudgery. - Rick Adelman


When you have a wide-open look, bad things happen. That's the way it goes. - Rick Adelman


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