Charles (Barkley, TNT commentator) gave a great talk for us at halftime. He said the game was over. |
Chauncey is a player I respect. He's a big-game player. |
Chauncey looked a lot livelier. A lot of guys looked a lot more livelier tonight. |
Chicago plays physical. They play hard. I think that they found out that if they just let us do what we want to do, we can be very effective. So they tried to turn it into a muck it, grind-it-up type game. |
Coming in from the outside, you could see that this team was hurt from what happened last year in Game 7. Sometimes you think over the course of time, they say that time heals wounds. But time just didn't seem to heal that wound. |
Delfino really took advantage of his time. He's the one guy we have (on the bench) who can beat people off the bounce, off the dribble. He can create plays for himself and for other people. |
Do we play hard? Yeah, we play hard. There are situations where they hit us. That's the way basketball is. |
Dog days. Especially after the holidays. After the holidays, you've had some big games last week. So what happens is you come in and it takes time to get your energy going a little bit. I thought we came out and traded baskets too much. |
Elton has drastically improved his perimeter shooting. He was quick-shooting us tonight -- getting rid of the ball before we could get to him. |
Even when I got fired, I thought I could be part of the solution. I wasn't the problem. People make decisions, and like my dad said, 'Things always work out for a reason.' You never know why it happens, but things always work out for the best. |
Every team has a chance to win, whether you are playing Detroit, Miami, New Jersey or whoever. There are no bargains in this thing where somebody is just going to walk through the first round. That's just how this league operates. |
Every time I go into a game I have, I don't know if you want to call it a cheat sheet or whatever, but I have a list of plays that I'm probably going to run that night. And there's no question that this last week that list has been a lot shorter as far as things we're going to run. There's some things we've put in, some wrinkles in some situations and maybe we'll lay away from some of those not to give them an extra scouting opportunity. |
Every time it happens, you always try to find out if there's questionable ones. I don't exactly know what the number is and what the true number is. |
Everyone at times did things to carry us. |
Everyone can get better. You can always get better rebounding-wise. The toughest thing in our league is, with the way the rules have changed from last year, where you have to contain people out on the perimeter, and you can't touch people. That's always something that's very difficult. |