It's just playing one game at a time, that's how I take it. I play as hard as I can for however many minutes that I play .... It's my job, I love playing basketball, I love the NBA. I just look forward to playing every day, and I'm sure it doesn't take much for me to get up before the game. |
It's real important but I don't put too much pressure on myself. |
It's really special. When I was in the second grade, I watched the Dream Team ? it was a special time for me. |
It's still sore. I really don't have full range of motion. |
It's tough. But safety is a main concern. I talked to the doctors yesterday and they're telling me, if the same thing happens again - if I play - it could be very severe. (Instead of) 10 days it could be 10 weeks or something like that. |
It's very good motivation because that kind of brings us together, |
It's very hard. We keep talking about the same things. We've got to keep playing, and learn from our mistakes. |
It's very much night and day, ... Last year I was more of a surprise when I started doing well in mid-season. At that point people started saying, 'OK, now we have to do something.' |
Just a Coke and a smile. |
Nobody comes in and says I got a spot on the team so I'll see you at the world championships. It's more of a businesslike approach and they'll weed out the guys that really want to play. |
Part of me wants to get out there, but the bigger part of me wants to see the other guys do well. If we're winning, that's all I care about. |
People support their country here a lot, and being in a diverse city, I expect it. |
Some nights are like that, especially on the drive and kick. They sucked us in and knocked down threes. It's not too many nights in the league on the road where you have shooting games like that. So you have to tip your hat off to them for all of those threes. |
Sometimes when I have a 1-on-1 advantage and teams don't do a good job of either doubling or clogging the paint, that works to my advantage. |
That goes to show ourselves and the fans that when we play the right way, it's tough for teams to come here and win. We knew we could score every time. We were pretty much scoring at will in the first half. |