I still think this can be a special season, but right now we are sputtering. |
I sure hope we're different. We seem to have been playing more physical basketball on the defensive end. Again, that was just one of those special games, the guy got on fire and obviously, since that's happened, we're not the team he's scored the most points against. |
I think any of the teams at the top, I think they should have at least multiple people on it. I think with our situation, I would have liked to have seen Josh (Howard) or (Jason) Terry, just somebody else besides Dirk on it because I think they should be rewarded. |
I think I'm gifted to do what I'm doing, that this is what I'm here for. |
I think I'm gifted to do what I'm doing, that this is what I'm here for. I felt like a coach when I was a player. ... In a lot of ways, I know some things are still new to me. But in other ways, I just feel like I've been doing this a lot of time, and a lot of it just comes naturally. |
I think the Mavericks -- our team -- we've kind of forgotten who we are as basketball team and what made us successful. It wasn't shots on the offense. It wasn't holding the ball. We've kind of looked like some of our old teams with one guy pounding the ball instead of ball movement and player movement. We haven't been physical. Is that because we've been fatigued? I don't know. I know we've been a step slow. I can see that -- mentally and physically. We just need to get back to being who we are, and I think that will give us a better chance to win some of these games. |
I think there's another level for us to go to. We did some good stuff. We did some bad stuff. |
I think we need to get off to better starts. The last couple games, we kind of dug ourselves a hole. You can't just turn it on in the second half. |
I think we're better defensively and much more physical. We're a little bit more mature and a little bit more experienced and a little bit more tougher minded. |
I think we're just going to see how it goes. It all depends who we play. |
I thought Damp (Erick Dampier) really shut down a lot of their penetrations in the fourth quarter. He got a couple of blocks, rebounds and I thought he was the reason we won the game. |
I thought Diop did well with limited minutes ... and I thought Dampier came out and contributed off the bench. |
I thought this was a gutsy performance by our team. Cleveland really jumped out on us and put us in a big hole and our team responded in the second half. Our third quarter defense was pretty special. |
I thought this was our best performance of the series. |
I thought this was our best performance of the series. We talked about playing tough, hard-nosed defense tonight to try and close this series out. |