Usually when you want something, usually you keep your mouth shut and hope that it happens and take care of business. That's how it usually goes. |
Usually, whatever team is aggressive is going to have success. I thought they were more aggressive. Our strength is our ability to play hard and be aggressive, and when a team does that better than you do, you're going to struggle. |
Very much so. It's something as coaches that we're not used to. You don't really go through that very much. I guess I would liken it to maybe the last week of the exhibition season when you're trying to get ready for the regular season. You want to improve and you want to keep sharp, you want to give people opportunities, you want to be competitive and you still want to win. |
Wally has been very important to us, but he hasn't been starting for us. So it's not like we have to change a lot how we approach the game. |
We also are in the entertainment business. I've always been one to go out and win games but also entertain, and I think we've become a team now that a lot of people like to watch play, because we play extremely aggressive at both ends of the floor. |
We are at the tip of the iceberg as far as where we are and where we could be. |
We both established ourselves at home with great crowds, and both have been the best teams on the road. Different sports, but it's like we've been looking at each other in the mirror. |
We came out kind of flat. We brought in Carlos, and he got us back in the game, took over the game, and everybody else finished. |
We can feel good about winning, get over it and get back to business tomorrow. I think the big thing with us, we're not playing Milwaukee, we're playing ourselves. |
We can still get stops and we can score 67 in a half, ... That shows the players that they can get it done at both ends of the floor, which is going to be big for their confidence as we go through the season. |
We cannot exert so much energy. People said at one point, 'Chasing 70 games' - or you chase something, then all of a sudden at the end you've got nothing left. We're a team where if we have energy, we can beat anybody. If we don't have energy, we can be beat by anybody. We can't put ourselves in a situation where we're playing some of these guys 38-39 minutes. |
We did a good job setting screens. We changed it a little bit on some of his runs. He did more change of pace. He'd change, run, stop, then he took off again. And Chauncey delivered. We set screens a little bit lower to get Rip a little bit more room coming off those screens to try and read. |
We didn't have our heads in the game in the first half. But this team never ceases to amaze me. They were challenged and they stepped up. |
We didn't have the step they did. They kicked our butts every which way. |
We didn't move the ball like we normally do. We got to make easy plays. I thought we tried to make too many spectacular plays. We've got to make easy plays. We had 21 fast-break points; we could have had 40. |