It's still close, ... I think Delonte does more on the defensive end, and you want a defensive presence starting a game. |
It's tougher obviously after a loss because guys are down emotionally. On days after a loss sometimes you've really got to snap their focus in. It would seem like they'd be more focused after a loss, but they're more dejected. Their confidence is down. You spend have the time trying to work them into it. Today we didn't have to do that. |
Larry is going to be missed. If Larry can be back for the playoffs, no one will want to play Cleveland if he's right. |
Last year was horrendous. We had to stop and refuel. Those trips took nine and 10 hours. |
Nash is Terrell Owens for them. He came in and turned the whole franchise around with his performance. |
Never Said Getting Better Was Easy. |
No, our guys know about Miami. Of all the things that can beat us (tonight), that shouldn't be one of them. |
Notre Dame and Wisconsin were the two biggest games when I was in college, |
Obviously a home game against Atlanta, you hope you can win. We're not playing well right now. It's frustrating to lose this game. |
Obviously to end the game the way we did with 10 points wasn't in the plans. They attacked and I thought they were the aggressor and I thought, when we were attacked, we went back on our heels a little bit. |
Obviously whenever you can improve your team you're going to do that -- with a veteran or a young guy. But we're in games. |
Oh, these guys won't be gentle about that. You know that much on this team. |
One of our scouts loved him and we considered him. Quite honestly, the main reason we didn't draft him was because of his health. He had the foot injury in college. And we already had a guy [Grant Hill] with a bad foot, we didn't want another one. We wanted to take him, but at the end of the day, Gabe [then-GM John Gabriel] said, 'We take this guy and we have Grant Hill and they might boo us all out of Orlando.' And Gabe was right. |
Paul and Wally got us going early. |
Paul gave a superhuman effort for us to get back in this game. You'd rather have a balance, but I'd take 40 from Paul. |