We're just shooting ourselves in the foot right now and we have to correct it. It's about time we start sewing up all our bad habits in the last 26 games. |
We're not in yet. We are still fighting to get in, every night. |
We're not turning the ball over now and we're playing solid defense. |
We're playing together. We're sharing the ball. We're trusting each other on defense and on offense. |
We're rolling. We're feeling pretty good. |
We're so good individually that you get caught up in it sometimes, and then you see why good teams with great, great individual talent can fall — because everyone wants to win the game, everyone wants to make great plays. Here we're just trying to share the ball. If Detroit can do it, anybody can do it. |
We're stunned, too. We did a great job for a team that doesn't give up. We knew it was going to be a hard-fought game. We just tried to keep the pressure on. We were just hot tonight. |
We've been losing it in the second half and the fourth quarter lately. We just need to find a way to patch things up. |
We've been missing that kind of toughness from our lineup. When you are missing one of your enforcers, his sweet jumper and his tough defense, it hurts us. Everybody is glad to have him back. |
We've been on the road, so when you come back it's hard to get that home rhythm that you are used to. It kicked in during the second half. |
We've got to realize that these people lost everything they had. For some people they didn't have food or water for days. I'm just trying to do my part and help out as much as I can. |
Well, you didn't make it. There were people here before you. We're just passing through like everybody else. You might as well have fun with everyone you can - media, fans - and they'll love you back. |
What happened to him, something like that is always going to haunt him. He can get some of it back, but it's not going to be where he used to be. They're going to make it hard to get back, but he's Kobe Bryant. He might take it back. |
What happens when you try to shoot and the ball goes up in the air? It's a foul. But we still got the ball to a great shooter. I thought it was going in. We all thought it was going in. |
What we wanted to do was get that losing streak snapped. We've got a mission: we're trying to make the big dance. It's going to be hard because (it seems) we're one game away from everything - out of it, in it. We just have to watch our Ps and Qs and keep playing. |