Those are always more grind-type games than those against the West. |
Those guys on the floor really spilled their guts. |
Those guys, they play hard no matter what the score is. They've got a lot of athletes and they keep on trying hard to come at you. |
Those I take as being comments from a young coach who has never been in that situation. I've never been a coach who downgrades what somebody else is doing to build myself up. I have enough confidence in my own ability to where I feel like I can just go out and show what I can do. |
To get 30 assists as a team after the way we started out - we started playing the way we were capable of playing offensively. |
To get to 60 (wins) is really something. It shows we've been able to play at a high level for a long time. |
To have 36 assists on 43 baskets shows that we are playing team basketball. We aren't as good as we looked tonight, and we aren't as bad as we looked in Dallas. |
To our credit we came back and located him in the last few minutes, and didn't give him any good looks. |
To our credit, we calmed down and just played basketball. The thing is, especially on the road, you put yourself in a position to win games. We don't beat ourselves. |
To this point, we've shot it pretty well. I don't want guys thinking about whether they should shoot it or not. If they do that, they're probably going to miss it anyway. |
Tonight was a game where we were locked in defensively and aggressively dictated what kind of shots they were going to get. I thought offensively we were able to do what we wanted. |
Tonight, it didn't matter if he had 50, 40, 20 or 10. The idea was for us to win. It wasn't Kobe Bryant against us. It was the Lakers against Detroit. |
Tony is a high-energy guy, and that's one of the reasons that when he became available, he was somebody we really wanted to look at. We thought he gave us a different dimension from what we had on the roster. |
Tony is in a good rhythm. We knew when he was available what he could bring to the team, and we knew he had the ability to score. I don't think everyone knew he could be effective at both perimeter scoring and going to the basket and creating for other people. Right now, he's kind of our instant offense off the bench. |
Two of the last three games that we won were because of our bench, and (Sunday) night, our bench got us in the game. We say we're going to make a very conscious effort to play them, create a role for them, create a niche, create an identity, and I think that's what we've done. |