He's one of the great ones, and the great ones make it easy for everybody. When he's rolling, everybody has easy shots and everybody gets the shots they want because they have to gear their defense to stopping him. They have to shift their whole focus. |
He's played a lot of years and not gotten to the Finals yet, where he wants to be. |
He's playing with a lot more energy right now, as we expected him to. When he's aggressive like that, I never feel like we can lose -- ever. He's probably one of the most difficult guys in the league to guard when he's aggressive. |
He's the best (sixth man) in the league. He's better than 90 percent of the league's starters. So (having McDyess is) a luxury, really, for us. |
He's the best I've ever worked with. He's helped me so many times. We all have the confidence that Rip is going to be fine, especially with Arnie helping him. |
He's very skilled. Very skilled. He's got a good opportunity. The only thing that I was ever frustrated with was when he was on the floor and he just looked like he didn't care. He looked a little disinterested. At the same time, I understood that as well because he wasn't getting an opportunity to play. |
Honestly, we were successful during the regular season, but that stuff really don't matter anymore. It's 0-0, it's all about Sunday night, 7 o'clock, nothing else really matters. The history really doesn't matter. |
I am a little more excited now because we've got some good teams coming in over the next week or so. I am looking forward to that. |
I am definitely going to miss him. |
I can't put my finger on it. They're a tough team. They play extremely hard, mix it up and play some zone, some man and keep you off-balance. They're very well-coached and they're very disciplined. |
I don't know how much better we can play. Things are pretty good right now. If it stays this way, I'll take it. |
I don't know if we can play that much better. We don't need to, though. If we can keep playing like this, that's fine. |
I don't know what Rip was doing, but he was hot, so I just kept going to him. He was thirsty today. |
I don't know. I really don't. I just know how good it is to do it in basketball. |
I don't think so. It's going to be a long time before we even possibly see each other (in the conference finals), and even if we do, our records will be 0-0. |