Pollin Be Rollin'

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“It’s tough. I don’t like being here today. I’m not real happy about this.”

- Interim coach Randy Wittman on his debut replacing Flip Saunders 

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“Just because you’re losing, you’re not a loser.”

- Wizards GM Ernie Grunfeld’s closing remark from his press conference discussing the firing of Flip Saunders

ed. note: Chris Singleton disagrees

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“To me, he was just put in a tough position, dealing with the situation of rebuilding with young players. There’s gonna be rainy days before sunshine. We’re definitely playing better basketball; we’re actually playing good basketball, except for last night against the 76ers.”

- Captain Andray Blatche in a radio interview shortly after the announcement of Flip Saunders firing.

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“He’s a big boy. He can deal with it. We’re not going to make a decision on whether he starts or not based on fan reaction.”

- Flip Saunders on the continued booing of Captain Andray Blatche

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“Apparently, if you get a fast break and throw it off the backboard in the third quarter, and you’re 1-11, you’re not supposed to do stuff like that. . . . I felt like I was trying to get the team hype and trying to make a good play. I felt like I did that and we went on a run from there. But I guess not.”

- JaVale McGee

“I told him that’s unacceptable. I mean, maybe I’m too old-school, but save that for the all-star game. Not during the game.”

- Flip Saunders

“No.”

- JaVale McGee on whether or not he regretted the dunk

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“One step forward, two steps back”

- Flip Saunders

“Looked like we took five steps back,”

- Rashard Lewis

“Seemed like we took nine steps back, go all the way back to the beginning of training camp, with everybody just playing for themselves”

- John Wall

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“No question, we’re making progress.”

- Flip Saunders

“I feel like it (Saunders ejection) inspired us”

- JaVale McGee

“The whole situation with Flip getting ejected early kind of hyped everybody up”

- Captain Andray Blatche

ed. note - Sounds like things are really coming together…

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“We talked about what he said about as far as wanting to be in the post and I told him, that’s something to my ears. I love hearing that. … But then he also has to understand that just because you get it at 17 feet, you don’t have to shoot it, either. I’m not twisting his arm to do that.”

- Flip Saunders