We're either near death or near birth. |
We're eliminating the nonsense. I'm fed up. I'm sick of losing at home and playing terrible basketball. Nonsense is always a distraction. |
We're just not a good team. We can talk about it, but we're just not. Tonight, we gave a professional effort and yet an inefficient one. |
We're not paid to try hard. That should be a given. We're paid to produce. |
We're not thinking about that. You can only take care of today. Worrying about down the road, percentages you have to win that's wasted energy. |
We're obviously trying to build around Tracy and Yao, and just as important as getting those two guys has been to get guys we feel best complement their strengths and compensate for their non-strengths, ... We still have a long way to go to get the roster we need to take us where we want to be taken. By no stretch do we feel we're there yet. |
Well, it's been my history with him when he goes out of the game, he's sat out in the past. I don't think he takes himself out lightly. |
What matters is that we fouled too much, we turned it over too much, and I think we probably shot in the 20's. We didn't play well enough on offense to win. We have professional players out there, so we have no excuses. |
When he (Alston) was not healthy, or out for a while, and we were without a true point guard, we were much more plodding. We want to be up the floor, which is what he does best. |
When he feels like he's capable of playing and the trainers and doctors concur and I concur, then he'll go back out there and play. |
When it gets tough right now, we're not the mentally strongest team, and that's at both ends. We just have to be able to weather some bad moments without caving in. We could have shown more resilience to hang around. That's what separates players in this league: mental strength. Mental strength is a huge component to how great you can be. |
When we have Yao (Ming) and Tracy (McGrady), we're a good team. It's pretty simple. |
When Yao shoots the ball more, we have a chance to be a more efficient offensive team. That's because for the most part he's going to shoot 50 percent and above, and get to the free-throw line, and close shots near the basket even missed are harder to translate into transition points, which allows you to get your defense set. |
When you score that little in a fourth quarter, it's usually part defense and part just missing some shots. |
When you score that little in a quarter, it's probably part defense and part you're missing some shots that you normally make. So we're not going to pound ourselves on the chest because I remember three or four they had right in a row at the basket over our midgets where the ball just happened to fall out. We try to play good defense yet we understand how good of an offensive team they are. |