Our thoughts and prayers are with everyone who was affected by this tragedy, |
Overall it was a good team effort and we were fortunate enough to be able to rest some guys in the fourth quarter. |
Points are hard to come by against Memphis, and it's been that way for everybody because of their tempo ... and their defensive scheme. We've got to place a premium on getting good shots. |
Ron has impacted them. He wants to show he's a dominant player on both ends of the floor. He's playing as good on that left block as I've seen him throughout his career. |
San Antonio can be beaten. |
Some of our players have made fun of our charge drill. But when you see them taking more charges in the game, it doesn't seem so silly. |
Sometimes, when a player has a lot of pressure on him, you don't always get exactly how they're feeling, because they want to tell you what you want to hear. |
Stack was solid, man. Stack was energized. He was ready to play. He was right in his comfort zone tonight. That's what we need from him on both ends. Obviously, he scored a little bit, but nobody will talk about how he battled those guys on defense. |
T-Mac played 26 minutes, but that was his limit. He was playing really well. I was running some plays for him, but more than me, they (rest of All-Stars) can tell what was going on, and they were trying to give him the ball. But he was hot. We were trying to give him the MVP. |
Teams are coming in here dropping 30-some points on us in the first quarter. We've been digging ourselves in a hole, so I'll continue to work on finding the right formula to help get us off to better starts. Maybe I won't call timeouts as quick as I used to. We'll have to do something. |
Teams change lineups all the time. We're not a championship team where we're bringing back five (starters). We're still searching. |
That first-quarter defense probably was as good as I've seen in a long time. No matter who you do it to, when you hold a team to 10 points in a quarter, that's pretty special. |
That game [Thursday] took a lot out of our team. We tried to act like it didn't, but these guys really battled. |
That was one of the reasons why we won that first quarter, ... Doug was running the offense a lot of the time, and his on-the-ball defense is always good. |
That was pretty much a complete game. I'm really proud of the way we battled. We played a tough, hard-nosed game. |