We've just got to understand that (tonight) is a different day and we've got to perform better than we did (Wednesday) night. |
What I've learned late in my career is, regardless of whether you play well or not, if the team doesn't win, it's all for nothing, |
When I struggle the way I did tonight, as a team we are obviously going to struggle. |
When they start talking about suspending me and hurting what we're trying to do here as a basketball team, then I don't have (a) choice but to abide by it, |
When we rebound the ball, we're able to do that. We don't want to come down and play a half-court game all the time. |
When you get down like that, you use up so much energy to get back into the basketball game. Then you have to be perfect the rest of the way. And playing this game, there is no way you can be perfect, because this game is so hard. |
When you have a first half like that nine times out of 10 you're gonna have good lead. Guys are coming out with a sense of urgency the positive thing about that is that it's happening now. |
When you have a half like that, nine times out of 10, you're going to have a good lead. |
When you rebound the ball we're able to move the ball, and we want to get out and run, try to get guys some easy baskets. We don't want to come out and play a half-court game all the time. |
Yeah, but I know who it is. It's [the media]. It's not like it's coming from my teammates or it's coming from the loyal fans. It's the newspapers, it's the media. The worst thing is just looking at the newspaper. You see terrorism on the front page, then you see all the deaths in Philadelphia on the local page, then you get to the sports page, when it's supposed to be something gratifying and you see even more negativity. |
Yeah, I came down wrong. But we've got a game tomorrow and we've got to come to play. |
Yes, that's the way its been. We played real well for the majority of the game, but collapsed at the wrong time. |
You can put a murderer in a suit, and he's still a murderer. |
You can't just put it on one thing. We have been doing a lot of things well. We are playing well together, we are defending, we are doing a lot of positive things out there. |
You don't want somebody shooting that had been making a lot of shots. |