It's almost like slowly but surely everything is becoming controlled. What's next? Do you have to wear your hair a certain way? Are they going to tell us what color shoes we can wear? It's ridiculous. |
It's been an exciting week in a lot of ways, but I haven't been getting much sleep, ... I'll do some catching up pretty soon. |
It's early, but I really like this team, ... What you see is a bunch of professionals going out there, playing hard and doing whatever it takes to play winning basketball. That's why I was so excited about coming here. |
Man, I feel like I went to George Mason. I didn't go to George Mason, didn't go to school anywhere near George Mason. But I'm sitting there watching the games just like it's my alma mater. |
Man, I'm willing to do anything that will help. I haven't been through something like this my whole career. |
No way, no how. There is no one more deserving to make the All-Star team than Gilbert Arenas. |
Some nights it's scoring, some nights it's not. Some nights it's defending. If everybody falls in and plays their role to the best of their abilities, we don't worry about who gets credit and we're a hard team to beat. |
Teams aren't used to boxing out 6-11 shooting guards. You just don't see that every night. That's one place where Jared can really hurt you in that lineup. |
That team is [52-14] for a reason. That is a very good basketball team. They have very good chemistry, and they play together. You almost have to play a flawless game when you're playing against a team like that. |
That's a big chunk of who we are and what we do, but everybody else filled in the gaps. It was almost like they were extremely pleased to hear that Gilbert was out, but we believed in ourselves. |
That's going to be a tough game, but we welcome that. In the big games, we seem to step up and play the way we're capable of playing. |
That's the way I play, ... I like to push the ball and attack the rim and put as much pressure on the defense as I can. Sometimes you get to the line and sometimes you can break the defense down and get a teammate an easy basket. Either way it's a good result for us. |
The biggest thing, number one, was the style of play, |
The guy's a heck of a talent. It's not just his points that get you. The fact that he got 11 assists and 11 rebounds means he got his teammates involved also. |
The idea is always to build a relationship between player and coach, simply because you spend so much time with each other trying to accomplish the same things, but this goes beyond that. I still speak with Coach every week, and I know how great of a person he is and how much he deserves everything he's getting right now. |