I told the team before the game that we're not giving up and we're not giving in. I was really pleased with our effort and to see that the fans haven't given up on this young group of guys. |
I want to give coach Hill credit for having his boys ready to play. With all their suspensions and injuries, that team came out and played really hard. That's a testament to coach Hill. |
I want to look at our guards, rotating our guards at the point guard position and not play them out of position, as we've done all season long. I think it just needs to be done. |
I was especially pleased with Zach. I thought his focus was there tonight. |
I was pleasantly surprised when I was asked to be a member of the coaching staff ... I am so honored to have been asked. This is the greatest achievement of my basketball career. |
I'd be lying if I said it wasn't special. Once that game was started and we started to play and towards the end you saw some of them celebrate for me, with me, that's special. That means a lot. |
I'm sure some people were thinking the Lakers were going to come back, but the crowd was great and they got behind us. |
I'm sure there are players that are looking and counting the games down. It's very tough to motivate a group that is basically out of the playoffs. |
I've been on a team that, you get to four and five (consecutive losses) and your veterans are calling a team meeting. You've got to get some veterans who will take a stance on it and not allow certain things like that to go on. |
If he can learn to bring this every night, this is the kind of consistency and commitment we need. His last couple of games, I like the way he's approached them. |
If we got sloppy in a game or two when the regular season started, we would go back to two-a-days. Players never really liked that, but what can you do? The head man was giving you orders. |
If you are continuing with repetition, then the players will get tired of it, and that's part of why I left Seattle, ... I felt like I was hard, hard, hard on them, and I couldn't do it anymore because they were going to tune me out. After a few years of that, players are like, 'I've heard it before,' and it just becomes noise. |
If you're playing the game the right way, you play hard and you play together. And I think if you continue to do that you'll win some games. So yes, I am happy with the effort and the focus and the togetherness that we're seeing. |
In the second, (Randolph) complained about his toe being sore so we decided to pull him and go with our young guys. I told Travis and our young guys these are the opportunities to go out and be scrappy and show us you want to be on the floor. |
It comes down to making plays. They've been able to make plays down the stretch and we haven't. |