Nobody likes to lose. Down the stretch, we have to know we're playing for something, anything, just to win. |
Physically, I may still be needing a little bit. I think I may need a suit of armor. |
Shanghai's future is full of hopes and challenges, which is the same case with me. |
Since this exchange, our team's gained renewed space to lift-off, and this space I think can take us all the way to the championship. |
That's just trusting my teammate. Ryan, I didn't know who it is. All I know it was a red jersey, under the basket and wide open. |
The best way is sleeping. |
The first half, those weren't my shots. At halftime our coach said, 'If you don't want to play hard, sit on the bench.' That scares people. The second half, everybody worked hard. We finished the game the way we know we can. |
The Lakers game really hurt us, hurt our confidence. If you cannot do something after that, we shouldn't be here. |
The Lakers game, to us, wasn't good. There was nothing good from that night. We can't allow ourselves to play like that again. |
The last two home games, we really didn't play well. Tonight in the fourth quarter, we played like a team and stayed together. We also played team defense to close the game. |
The NBA is a big family, and I think of all these rookies as my brothers. I still believe I am blue collar among the All-Stars. |
The NBA life has made me grow up a lot. I have not just grown up in my basketball skills, it's made me stronger and tougher. |
The talk has got to change, ... We need to do it for ourselves -- talk the talk and walk the walk. |
The third quarter was the turning point. The third quarter when Kobe hit those shots. Those were great shots. I think defensively we did everything we could do, and he just made shots. |
The victory was right in front of our face. If we could have gotten one or two more rebounds, it would have been in our pocket. |