I thought some guys gave good effort tonight, but some have their luggage in mind on the plane already. Turnovers and shot selection killed us. |
I thought that was the difference. We missed a quick shot then he made six in a row and that gets it to nine. You hate them making a run at the end of a quarter because you have to sub and it just gets worse from there. |
I thought the difference in the game was that we had two turnovers in the second half, after going for a record it felt like in the first half. We scored 29 points off of turnovers ourselves and that is why we won the game. |
I thought we changed the game and we went small with four smalls and one big. It allowed us to stretch the floor, and pick-and-roll. Whoever it was, the key was we kept moving the ball. |
I thought we looked at the scoreboard and acted like we may be able to beat the Miami Heat. But I don't know if we, at the end, believed we could beat them. |
I thought we really lost our intensity. We started watching them play for a while, and I thought that really hurt us. |
I thought we won the game because of great ball movement. That's how you play at the end of a game. If they trap you, swing it, and the ball kept moving until it found the open guy. You could see our guys at the end were getting into the ball movement. |
I thought, for whatever reason, our spirit was broken in the third and fourth quarters. |
I told them before the game that I thought the team that went and took it was going to win the game and I thought that was the difference. I thought we got very timid down the stretch, stopped moving the ball, which was very clear. And they made plays. |
I told them we played with them and that's great. But at the end of the day, we didn't win the game. And I told them the moral victory stuff, that's for teams who think they are losers. |
I want these guys to be great players, I really do, but I also want them to be professional. I don't know if that comes into my job title or not, but I believe it does. So when that stuff happens, you have to take an action that you don't really want to take. |
I wanted him to stay more in the middle of the floor because we thought if he went to the sideline they would be able to double. And they actually did, and he still got the shot off. That was just a great player making a great shot. |
I wanted to make the playoffs and so did they. [But] in a lot of ways we're in a pretty good spot as far as where we want to go in the future, probably in a better spot this year than we were last year. |
I was happy. I was proud of our young guys. They just kept fighting. I was using it to teach execution to young guys. |
I was really happy with our young guys. I was really using it (the game) to try to teach execution to the young guys. |