One injury can change the course of a season. You lose a key player, you've got to change your offense, your defensive schemes. It hurts your team. You don't want that to happen to anybody, but that's the way basketball is. |
Our guard play is a big key. It's huge, especially when you're on the road. |
So we've got to win first. |
T-Mac is so hard to stop. You just try to find ways to slow him down, but once he gets going, it's pretty hard. |
That's big-time right there, |
The guard positions, those guys got off. We didn't step up. Of course we scored, but that's not what it's about. It's about stopping the other guy. |
The team depends on me every night, (and) the coaches depend on me to come out and give something. That's what I'm learning as a player. ... I was really pleased with our defense. It was better than when we played them last week. Our defense hasn't been the problem, and we're finally putting the offense together. |
The young guys got a lot of talent. Right now, they're playing with their talent, and they're playing better than what we expected of them. |
There was a lot of desperation to win these games. Closing out the game. Hitting free throws. Valuing each possession of the ball. We did it all tonight and we pulled the game out. |
There were times when we needed to make a stop and they scored on us. That was the difference in the game. |
There were times when we needed to make a stop, and they scored on us. That was the difference in the game. Overall we played a good game. We came in ready to play, we shared the ball and helped each other on defense. Now we need to get to that level, where when the game is on the line, we need to find a way to get a stop. We just missed shots. |
They had good defense on me. Four seconds, you've got to get a shot up. I couldn't get the ball out of my hands and I couldn't get a good shot off. |
They want to sway away from the hip-hop generation, ... You think of hip-hop right now and think of things that happen like gangs having shootouts in front of radio stations. |
This is the result of an extremely personal matter. I deeply regret being involved in any situation that results in the embarrassment of my family, friends and fans, the Golden State Warriors and the NBA, |
This was a desperation win. |