He was the best player on the floor. I think, as I've said of him before, he's got an inner toughness and it doesn't come from practice, it doesn't come from me. It comes from his existence, and he showed it today when J.R. went down. |
He willed us back into that game. |
He willed us back into the game. ... It was J.R., and it was Billy Campbell. ... We all of a sudden woke up and started to believe and chipped away and took the lead, but we didn't maintain it down the stretch. |
He's a nightmare for anybody. Very seldom are you going to find a guy who can defend a guy like him - off the dribble with lateral quickness - and do an effective job when he goes inside. It becomes a little bit of a problem trying to guard a guy like that who has so many dimensions to his game. |
He's a one-dimensional player that has an excellent one dimension. |
He's a one-dimensional player who has an excellent one dimension. He's the end result of their ball movement ... he was the beneficiary. |
He's banged up and a result he's mentally banged up too. We rely on him for a whole lot. Everything kind of falls on his shoulders and he takes more pride in that than most people. That leads to a little more fatigue. I'm not a big fan - no coach is - of missed practice time, but we got to hope that if we sneak some days off in he'll be more energized. |
He's been playing full tilt in practice for about a week now. But obviously, games are the best place to get back. Today did a lot, not only for us, but for his self confidence and my confidence in him. |
He's got a level of intestinal fortitude that I don't know that I've ever seen before. A light went off in him that [he] had to take control of this game, and that's what he did. |
He's got a pretty good self-check program going for himself. I really believe, as a catch-and-shoot guy, that he's not only as good as we've got but as good as it can be in this league. |
He's got some intestinal fortitude, which I don't know if I've ever seen before. Almost as if he has the mentality of a boxer or a football player. |
He's got something inside of him. He's got a grit. I've said this to him, and I've said this to a lot of people about him, he's got some intestinal fortitude which I really don't know if I've ever seen before. |
He's having a career, particularly this season, for the ages. I've watched it, I studied it on film, and now I saw it in person. ... He really knows this game of basketball. |
He's having a year for the ages. |
He's having not only a career, but particularly this season, a year for the ages. I've watched it, I've studied it on film and now I've seen it in person. |