We really liked the way he played defense this summer and the way he was able to get us into some of our offense. I made a special trip to Utah (summer league) just to see him play. |
We seemed to have a lot of energy tonight. I gave them (two days) off and they gave me one back by responding with energy and concentration pretty much throughout the whole game. It's pretty rare for us to play that long of a stretch of good basketball. |
We stepped up big defensively in the fourth quarter. We were fortunate to get away from them. |
We struggled to guard Yao in the first half, but we made some adjustments and were much more physical in the second half. We were fortunate enough to hold him down then. |
We think our chances are not good. |
We thought our defense and offense was good in the first half, but in the second we struggled. We had one turnover in the first and 10 in the second half. That is something we will take a look at. |
We thought our first-quarter defense really set the tone. We worked on a lot of stuff this morning and we were fortunate to have some carry over. |
We thought we got our defense under us in the first half and kind of set the tone for the rest of the game. We had a little lull defensively in the third quarter, but they're a very good offensive basketball team and they weren't going to come out of the locker room lying down. |
We thought we had a legitimate beef with the way they were playing Dirk. When you don't complain, sometimes it can give the message that you don't care. |
We thought we had it won in regulation. Carmelo made a tough shot. If we had to do it all over again, we probably would have fouled. |
We thought we were pretty good defensively, for the most part, against one of the tougher teams in the Western Conference. We knew we had to be physical. |
We tried to bother him and make it hard on him. |
We tried to bother him and make it hard on him. He's been averaging 50 points on us and we didn't want that to happen (again). |
We want our main guys to start playing now. You'll see some different looks. |
We were always late bloomers. |