We don't change our style of play. A lot of teams, they play one way during the regular season and their style of play has to change once they get to the playoffs. When you play for seven months one style, and now you're going to change in a three-day span, you're not as prepared, you're not as comfortable. |
We don't even talk about that. |
We don't try to get the ball out of guys' hands too much. We did a little bit tonight because we needed to do some things to get active a little bit. |
We executed pretty much, ... You have to be aggressive. If a team takes something away, you have to have enough freedom to go in and attack. And they didn't do that, but you can see in the second half they started to execute better and get some open looks. |
We going to continue working on those things to make sure we have a full arsenal of weapons heading into the playoffs. |
We got out of it what we wanted. Our main guys played really well, especially in the third quarter when they turned the heat up. We worked on some of our trap defenses that were really effective. Then we gave our young guys some fourth-quarter experience. |
We got pretty much what we wanted offensively. Defensively, we were like vultures to start games. |
We got up 18, 20, lost a little bit of our concentration. They came at us aggressively. |
We got very active and got aggressive. |
We had 30 assists, and that shows you are playing team basketball. We share the ball. |
We had control. We lost that control and couldn't gain it back in the second half. |
We had terrible energy and terrible passion in the first half. We just seemed very much disinterested, and then we really picked it up and played with more energy. |
We have a lot of confidence in our defense and when you're scoring offensively, they both feed off of each other. |
We have a team that plays on the edge. You have to have that. All the great teams in this league have been like that. |
We have been playing a lot of games home-road-home-road, so I think we were a little tired tonight. We'll have to give some guys a rest down the stretch. |