350 ordspråk av Mike D'Antoni
Mike D'Antoni
Personally, I'd like them to play. Too many days off aren't a good thing, but they've got to get well, too.
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Raja knows the boundaries. He knows when he goes overboard and he tries to avoid that. Sometimes you can't help it because it's an emotional game. But he's made a lot of money with the way he plays. I'm not going to tell him to change it.
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Raja was fine. He even asked to go back in (for the final seven minutes) because he wanted to keep working a little bit. Boris is sick, but he probably could use the rest. He's played a lot of basketball (a month of the European Championships before training camp) and a lot lately when we were short-handed.
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Raja's playing really well. He's been good all year but the last 10-12 games he's been unbelievable.
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Right now, you're thinking, 'I hope my heart doesn't explode,'
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Shawn and Steve had huge games. It was a great effort all around. Steve is playing like the MVP he is. We can't live without him.
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Shawn Marion scored 31 points and (had) 24 rebounds and didn't play as well as he did in the last game. He is on a roll. He is just amazing.
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Shawn Marion's not going anywhere. Arguably, he's a MVP candidate. Oh, yeah, let's trade him. That'd be stupid.
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Some of it was a lack of killer instinct or focus or desperation. But sometimes the ball just bounces the wrong way. You hate to put it in simple terms. A couple times we were there, and it just bounced the wrong way on us.
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Speed is a little bit of a frame of mind. Q (Richardson) wasn't the fastest guy. In Bell, James and Eddie House we have shooters and with (Brian) Grant and Kurt we can be a little tougher inside, which is something we wanted to do.
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Start the best five guys, whether you can go a little bit bigger or go back to smaller like last year. All it means is that you have less options and one guy who was going to get a little bit of time is getting more time.
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Steve Nash does it all the time. He can do it.
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That changed everything. Shawn ( Marion ) was going to mirror him. We don't really have anybody else that can guard him. Shawn has to take all 40 minutes, and that's tough.
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That is what happens when you have talent. We are young and they (the players) came together more then anyone expected.
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That started in the first quarter, but it actually goes back to the Seattle game. I don't know if we think we can slug it out with people offensively or what, but we just can't do that. We have to get back to some hard-nosed basketball and we're going to do that.
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