This is the fifth year they've been a 50-plus win team. They're a veteran team that just understands how to win, and they're extremely unselfish and playing together very well. |
This was a bad loss for us. We have to get out of this habit of taking two steps forward and one step back before we can start moving forward again. |
This was a big step for us. I think we're becoming a basketball team rather than a collection of individuals. To me it's very rewarding to see how, at this stage of the season, how hard these guys are playing. |
This was a much needed win and I was very happy with the effort that the guys gave tonight. We just came out and played very hard from the beginning of the game. |
This was obviously a real good win for us tonight. I thought we just really got excellent contributions from everybody at some point and time during the course of the game. |
To get 26 rebounds, that's a monster effort for anybody. You don't see that too often in today's game. |
To get 67 points from your bench ... there are nights when we don't get 67 as a team. |
We are still playing with confidence and we aren't being rattled by it. |
We began looking at our emergency plans on Monday and started early Tuesday. |
We can live with that if we had rebounded the ball better. |
We couldn't keep T.J. Ford in front of us. He just went wherever he wanted to go with the basketball and created all kinds of scoring opportunities. If it wasn't for him, it would have been a much easier game. |
We couldn't make any shots and we didn't play very good defense in the first half, which got us in a hole. I give them credit - they're a heck of an offensive team. They're a tough team to guard. We shoot 38 percent and the other team shoots 53 percent, it makes it tough. |
We didn't come out at the beginning of the game with the mind set that we were going to win this game. We did a better job in the second half, but we dug ourselves a hole early on. |
We didn't execute on our last two offensive possessions down the floor and it cost us the basketball game. |
We don't win the game tonight without him out there. He made all the big shots when we were struggling a little bit offensively. |