It's definitely frustrating sitting and watching, |
It's nice to have our best player back, and we know what he can do when he gets his legs and stuff under him. |
My hips are the best they've been since whenever this happened. I've only been working out for about three weeks. It's a matter of getting back into shape. I never take time off in the summer. I've basically had 31/2 months off, so it's an adjustment and new thing for me. It's going to take me a couple of weeks to get back. |
No matter what you do, you can tell the difference when you return. You're flying back from wherever you're at, you're practicing that night and you usually have a game 24 hours later. There's conditioning and then there's basketball conditioning. |
That was a sign of a chink in our armor and nobody really realized it. We had a winning record at that point and we thought we didn't have a problem even though we got blown out. We really did, though. |
That's no excuse. Young and athletic is a positive for them, but then there's young and inexperienced for them. If we're not as athletic as them, we have to beat them with experience; and obviously we didn't do that. |
The Raptors are 2-0 against us. The Hawks are 3-0 against us. We lost to Charlotte by 35. I don't know what it is against teams that don't have the best record, but we don't do well against them. That says something really bad about our team that we're going to have to figure out. |
The technical was sad to see. It was a bad time in the game. You don't expect that from A.J., of all people. We were fortunate he missed that shot and he missed the game-winner. The way we've been going lately, it seems like we're getting back to getting on the refs again, and we can't do that if we want to be successful. |
There is not a clearly defined dictionary of street lingo. |
There were several of them (lies), weren't there? |
These kids ought to be going to proms and on dates and high school instead of hanging out all night and having handguns and shooting each other. |
They are doing great. It's been a confusing day for them for sure, but after a day they could settle down and feel at home. |
They did a good job of running the same play for him. He was tough because he was pulling up two and three feet behind the 3-point line. For any big guy, that's foreign territory to have to defend that. |
They were a little more aggressive. I don't know if they were mixed up in the first half or what they were doing, but my teammates found me. Basically, I had eight dunks, so they obviously figured something out at halftime and took it away. |
They're having a great year. We're going to have to have to have the same type of effort we had last game (against the Lakers) to keep it close and to have a chance to beat them. |