After I missed my first three, the boos got really loud, but I stayed positive. [When] I played here, the boos didn't help at all -- they had you second-guessing your ability. It was frustrating, but that was a long time ago. |
Don't ask me about it. |
Driving home, I'll be thinking about them. |
He's one of the top three players at his position. That's a great compliment. There's Shaq in front of him and who else? Take your pick. |
Hey, you learn from your mistakes. Last game, we played a bad game. We knew we had to come out and put together a better effort. |
I can recall teams I've been on that have been in situations like this. You try to find ways, no matter what part of the season, to get wins. Sure enough, this late in the season, to get two wins over two good teams ... it has to boost your confidence and morale. Everybody starts to feel good. |
I didn't see it happening. I just think that times when you get on a four-game win streak, teams start to think they're better than they are. We can't have that attitude. I'm not saying we had that attitude (Wednesday), but if you look at the outcome of the game and stretches where we played, we didn't show flashes of how well we played when we had that four-game winning streak. |
I guess I would just play video games. |
I point the finger at myself early on. We allowed Wilcox to get very comfortable out there at the start of the game. It got his confidence going. We allowed him to dominate the paint inside. |
I shrugged it off. I thought it was indigestion. |
I'm pretty sure everyone in this locker room has been through something like this where the home team's crowd gets excited, the energy level rises, the other team uses it to play with confidence. I don't think (we) felt pressure. |
If we would have scored 76 points and they scored 71, we would have been satisfied. But I will say it is a really good feeling. |
It's kind of weird that we're a different team on the road. Some may say our focus is different, we play with more energy, more passion. ... We have to make teams fear coming into our building. |
That's totally awful. It should not happen. Every guy in this locker room is responsible. We didn't secure rebounds. We didn't guard the pick-and-roll the right way. It's unacceptable. |
This means a lot to us. It feels great to get a victory. We lost four in a row before this and it felt like an eternity. Night after night we have come up short, but tonight we hung in there and didn't give up. |