We just had no resistance on the defensive end tonight. You can't trade baskets or think that you are going to outscore a team like the Wizards. |
We just have to win these next five games to give ourselves the opportunity. That's it. |
We just stunk. We got tentative, we were passing up shots. It's what we call just getting tight. The next five days of practice are going to be hell. By the end, they're going to be wishing they had a game. |
We keep finding ways to win. Our confidence is sky-high. You think we're dead in a game and we find a way to win. |
We knew we weren't going to be able to keep Kobe under 30, but you want to make him work for it. And I think we did a pretty good job of that. |
We made a lot of changes this year and thought we'd gotten much more athletic. I didn't know we were going to have the same problems on the defensive end. Guys are getting beaten off the dribble like drums, and then when the help comes, the other guys aren't coming in. |
We obviously have to do a better job taking care of the ball. But when you have 23 turnovers and you win the game, that's a plus. We've got to do a better job of understanding how important that ball is. |
We played a lot better than we have in the last five or six games. The one thing that I wanted us to do was compete, and I thought we did a pretty good job of that. |
We played hard tonight. We had the tempo in our favor and that's the type of basketball that we want to play. |
We played like the game did not mean a thing. That was everybody, obviously, but as a team, collectively, we were awful. Simple as that. |
We run the same offensive sets with Speedy. He was a member of a championship team on San Antonio, so we're very confident in him. |
We think for us and for him, it's probably the best thing to do. |
We took care of tonight. That was the first phase. Now we have to get these games on the road. Each day that goes by we continue to get closer to our goal. |
We want to establish some type of a home-court advantage. We've got a great crowd, so we've got to bring an energy and a physicality to the game that we haven't been bringing, and all our guys know that right now. |
We were able to get a young center that we feel is going to get much better and better, that's shown improvement. He had his best year in Phoenix playing the type of basketball that we play. And then we got a veteran in Aaron Williams. We've still got our first-round picks. |