The thing about Billy is that he knows what his role is and he doesn't try to do anything outside of it. We know what he can do, and we know that he can play. We have confidence in him, and that helps him have confidence with us when he's out there. He's a real team player. |
This one was worse because I was at the top of my jump and came right down on someone's foot, ... The swelling has gone down in the last 36 hours so it's doing a lot better. We'll continue to ice it, massage it, stretch it and see how it feels Wednesday. |
This team is already a good basketball team. They don't have to adjust to me; I have to adjust to them. |
Tim and the Spurs are going to the Virgin Islands. Tim said he had nothing to do with it. Yeah right, he just happens to be from the islands. But hey, Richmond will be just fine. We're there to work anyway. |
We are not looking ahead. Our only concern now is Game 3. We still have some things we could do better, some things we could improve on. |
We could have practiced better, definitely. I don't think we're feeling complacent. We just didn't practice as hard as we needed to in order to win this game. |
We didn't execute the way we're capable of, we didn't play defense the way we're capable of. When that happens, you lose basketball games, especially on the road. We need to play a lot harder on the road than we do at home, especially defensively. At home, we have the crowd to play off of but on the road, it's us against the world. It's a great position to be in, but we need to meet the challenge. |
We need to get the ball out of his hands. We have to make other guys beat us. |
We need to win the games that we are supposed to win, and every game becomes important. It has now become a pre-playoff schedule, and the games are a lot more important. |
We talked about staying loose. We were missing 30 points and nearly six assists. That's a big part of who we are and what we do. But we had to pull together and that's exactly what we did. You know when (Sacramento) heard Gilbert wasn't playing, they were extremely pleased. |
We were in it all the way to the end. It just came down to some crucial plays at the end. It's been like that a lot lately. We just have to come together as a team and find ways to win games like this. It's coming. But it has to happen very soon. |
We've been trying to take it one game at a time for quite some time. Every game we play right now is important. We need to make that playoff push. |
What I'll do is come in here and try and show the guys who haven't been there what it takes to get there. Getting to practice on time, practicing hard night-in, night out. Little things, like making the bus on time. This team is ready to make some noise. They're right on the verge. |
When you have a guy who has complete freedom with the ball and the whole floor to work with, it's damn-near impossible to stop him. There's not much you can do. If he gets the ball in the middle of the floor you're basically on an island. It's you and you have to stop the quickest guy in the league by yourself. |
When you have a guy who has that much freedom with the ball it's [darn] near impossible to stop. If he gets the ball in the middle of the floor you are basically on an island. You have to stop the quickest guy in the league by yourself. |