This year, we've been able to sustain it. We've been able to make adjustments, figure it out and understand better than we have in the past. |
To let (Sacramento) shoot 55 percent in the game and still be as close as we were was amazing in itself. We came down at the end of the game and executed pretty well for ourselves, but they had the extra possession. |
To me, it's something that I want to be very conservative with it, ... It's a muscle that could be a recurring injury and I'd like to try and get it over with in one fell swoop. |
Troy, he was huge tonight. When he hits those shots, we're almost impossible to guard, because he spreads the court out so well. |
Until they understand how important it is for everybody to box out, for everybody to have a piece of this, than we won't go as far as we're capable of going. At some point in time, those rebounds are going to turn into a lot more points. When they do, it's probably going to cost us games. |
Want me to take my shirt off? ... That will sell some tickets. |
We built that lead up to 21, and then we fell into the classic fool's gold. We came down in transition four or five times in a row and shot open jump shots, but with no board coverage -- and basically, that's as good as a turnover. We let them gain momentum and get right back into the game. |
We came, we blocked, we attacked. The shots we gave up weren't high-percentage shots. |
We could never get it straight to what we were trying to get to. It was a combination. Our guards were getting hung up on the pick. They definitely burned us on it. |
We did a great job controlling the boards, overall defensively we did really well. |
We did a nice job defensively as a team. You just try to make (James) work for everything, throw different looks at him, and he missed some shots he normally makes. If you can hold him down, you've got a good chance of beating them. |
We didn't get rotated to him. We let him get off in the first half three or four shots that he made. Now you let the cat out of the bag and then, even if you're close to him, he has the confidence that he can make shots. |
We didn't really post him up. We just tried to put him in an isolation situation and let him make the play, and I thought he was awesome with it. |
We got outworked and outsmarted. |
We got outworked and outsmarted. We just made way too many mistakes; we didn't make our right covers and didn't make good reads. Our shot selection was poor; our big guys were getting the ball inside and not scoring. |