I know we are a much better basketball team than how we played. Tonight, our minds were not together as a unit. We just didn't show up as a team and do the things necessary to win. |
I like what those guys do together. |
I loved our aggressiveness in getting to the free throw line 38 times, but missing 16 free throws in a tight game like this ... you basically shoot yourself in the foot. |
I need to ask some questions. I need to sit down and talk to some guys tomorrow, and just figure out if they want to be here. |
I really haven't looked at the games -- our wins and our losses. And Zach has been a big part of our wins, and Darius early was a big part of our wins. I've seen scrappy play, I've seen hustle. We played solid for 48 minutes. But we still didn't win. |
I saw us get tight. We looked like we knew we had possibly given this game away. But we made plays down the stretch to win it -- two good defensive stops, which was the difference. |
I think for both of us, the way we entered the league and what we had to do to have success helped us become coaches. We weren't superstars. We really had to work. |
I think he has a chipped tooth and he should be OK. He got a pretty good blow to the mouth wrestling for a rebound. |
I think he has a goal, something he wants to be - not just an NBA player. He wants to be an All-Star. We have something here. We have a really special player. |
I think he's worked hard, but he needs to play. The thing is, that's not a league where you just go and it's a cake walk. For him, there's going to be guys down there challenging him because he's up here, he has a position, and they want to come up here. |
I think his commitment to defense has gotten him into a rhythm offensively. I have asked him for more of a defensive effort, and he has responded. Offensively, he knows we are going to go through him, but his defense has made him better on both ends. |
I think it just shows you where we are as a team. We are a young, inexperienced team that is trying to learn to finish a game. You saw some of our maturity and inexperience come out when the game got tight and got frustrating. We almost gave this game away. Hopefully we learn from this. |
I think Miles was deep in the paint and got sealed and may have lost him, and he was wide open over there. |
I think some guys are coming out there and busting their behind to play hard and do the things that we ask. But we can't have two or three guys playing that way and other guys not. |
I think sometimes, you're going to go back and forth. There's certain things that I believe in as a coach and a style that this team should play. And that's what we're trying to put in place. So we're going to be back and forth. |