Good feelings, man. Coach [Pat] Riley, he gave me a shot. He believed in me, he stuck with me. And from there, I've had a good career so far. I have all the thanks in the world for these guys down here. |
Hopefully, it's us doing a good job. We're just so keyed into what we're trying to do defensively, we try not to focus on those other things. Where other teams see some guys bicker, they might try to use that, but we just try to stay our course. That's what we did for a full 48 minutes, stuck to our game plan to a 'T. |
I think ultimately you've got to see how they do in the playoffs. But last year's team was good. |
It just looked a lot worse than it was. |
It would have been nice, but we took care of what we needed to take care of. |
It's nice to see some people you haven't seen in a while. Just hung out and enjoyed that for the day. |
Offensively, his shooting has really opened up a lot for his game. He does it all. He's tough. He can slash to the basket. Now, he's scoring off the dribble a little bit. |
Right now, it's a business trip for us. |
That's just who he is. That's what he does. |
The other night [in a loss to Philadelphia], we didn't do what we needed to do offensively. No matter how much I play, I want to do a better job of helping change that. |
This time it was just muscular, which is a good thing where it doesn't last as long, luckily. It's calm, and it's on its way out. |
This was a big game for us after that loss when we didn't play well. We had a talk before the game about executing our game plan and trying to put some pressure on them. |
We had a lot of interchangeable parts, and we got better as the season went along. We got up and down the floor. We played tough defense. We were perimeter-oriented. |
We'll respond; we've responded all season. It was obviously disappointing, and it left a bitter taste in everybody's mouth. We have to bounce back. This is another big week for us. We're playing some tough teams, and we really have to rise to the occasion. |
Yeah, definitely. That team, like this one, was a lot of interchangeable parts, getting up and down the floor, playing tenacious defense, predicated on great guard play. |