This (six-game) road trip is more important than anything. We have to come out strong. If we can come out strong, we will finish strong. |
This is how we were playing at the beginning of the season when we were holding teams to 85 points. If we can keep playing like this, we'll be pretty good. |
This is where you make your name. People follow what you did during the regular season, but what you do in the playoffs, it's all magnified. The TV cameras are on you. The critics are watching, so this is where you step up your game. |
Those players, they have a different way of playing. If they're looking at you and you're not with them, they think you're a failure. So I told Kwame he has to go in and use that energy toward the basketball floor to get in good with those guys. |
To fill up the gym. It's playoff time. I've got to get ready. I've just got to be around it, be around the gym and get that in me. |
We absolutely miss him. He is crucial to what we do. When you get used to having someone like that and then all of a sudden you don't have him, it means you have to adjust. We're having trouble adjusting. |
We are enjoying playing together again. We haven't had this feeling since the first six games of the season where we are actually going out there happy to play. |
We are not playing tomorrow so I'll have a chance to rest it and hopefully I can get back to about 80 percent before we play Philadelphia. Until we seal up that five spot (in the Eastern Conference), there will be no rest. I just have to keep going full-throttle until we get that five seed. We're getting banged up at the worst time and it's going to be a battle the rest of the way, but we have enough talent on this team to keep winning. |
We came out (up) 19-9, playing good defense, getting rebounds. We wanted to have an aggressive attitude from the jump. |
We can't look at it like we are however many games ahead, we've been down that path before. We hold our own destiny from here on out. |
We destroyed ourselves in Game 1. So we decided to come out and play better basketball. |
We did a great job tonight. It was a great team effort. We have been improving defensively, and it's been showing. |
We did our job, but when a team is doing badly it's usually because they are breaking down offensively. We were just there at the right time. |
We didn't want to drop three in a row before we have to face a tough Charlotte team. They always play us tough. It's going to be a great back-to-back series against them. |
We dug down deep. We got stops early in the fourth quarter and from there they were just fighting to get back. |