I took him out early and I didn't realize how close he was to the record. Shawn said I jinxed him. |
I was almost ready to leave him out there with three, four or five fouls. For someone that hot, it's almost a shame to take them out. |
I was never that good, so I don't know. I was what I was at 30. I wasn't getting any better. |
I was ready to leave him out there with his third, fourth, fifth and sixth fouls. Somebody that hot, it's almost a shame to take him out. |
I'm a little frustrated because we really try to play defense. But again, people are going to score a lot of points because we score a lot of points. |
I'm going to say something pretty prophetic. We played pretty well. I think (Thursday) we got over the hump. We (ran) all night. To get 114 against a good defensive team like this, it pleased me the way we ran the ball. |
I'm happy with the team, |
I'm not saying that he's the most valuable player, but he's certainly the best player. And it's not even close. He is utterly dominant. |
I'm sure everybody is trying to get the seventh spot now. |
If nothing comes of it, he should play. I would say probable. |
If you can do one-on-one and two-on-two, it's going to be really close. It'll depend on his physical condition as we go forward. We're probably looking at another month, and then he'll be ready to go. |
In Europe, they hardly play any playground basketball, because they're always with a coach. |
In the first half, for whatever reason, we were on our heels offensively and defensively. Once we played as bad as we could, we said, 'The heck with it,' and picked it up. In the second half we played great. I don't think we had enough fight defensively and when we did, we could not get out on the break. |
In the second half the guys came out with the fire necessary to compete in the playoffs. That's the first time that we have seen that in a long time. We had an unbelievable second half both defensively and offensively. |
It almost seemed like we had a weight on our shoulders. We will keep emphasizing to the team that we will keep shooting them up and we are not going to worry about it. |