It will always be sort of game-to-game, I think, with him. |
It's a day that we moved toward putting together a core that's going to be together for a while, |
It's a good bounce-back game. We needed to get out of our system what happened the last couple of games. |
It's a reality we have to understand. (O'Neal) has to be more diligent. We have to be more diligent protecting him. We need him in the game. |
It's a tough loss, from the standpoint of digging ourselves out of a hole. We didn't make big stops when we needed. |
It's almost a crossroads for me right now, to find the competitive warriors and the competitiveness of those guys will transcend the talent and reputation. I'm going to try to find the guys who are going to try to play the hardest and best in support of our two great players. |
It's almost like a blessing in disguise to get on the road because it's a better challenge and we can get away from all the distractions in Miami. |
It's an ongoing battle. It's becoming more and more and more difficult to do it. There's so much talent, so much ball-handling ability. There's so many things that officials allow perimeter players to get away with that it's difficult to guard the ball. |
It's conditioning, it's positioning. He's been very aggressive around the hoop. |
It's difficult, but you deal with it. Family is part of your life. And so, I did what I had to do in New York. ... The last four days was about a family crisis. Now it's about Chicago, moving on and trying to get this job done here. |
It's good to get this. It doesn't mean much unless you use it. |
It's in our hands. I'm not looking at numbers. I'm not looking at who they are playing. |
It's in our hands. I'm not looking at numbers. I'm not looking at who they're playing. It's in our hands. And so we have to win games. They might win out. So we have to just stay one step ahead of the posse. |
It's just good to get this win and get ready for Indiana and the next six or seven games that are coming our way. |
It's just something that we couldn't financially match, ... We were not going to go out over more than two years. |