Allen's a great player. We're not going to stop him. You know he's going to get his points. |
And I look forward to seeing all of you in four or five years when we have the next Nellie retirement party in another town. |
And now I don't think they look at us in the same light. Manu plays with no fear, a tough kid. (Tony) Parker they knock around and he keeps bouncing back up. And maybe with those additions, they look at us differently. |
Anybody that doesn't get a kick out of watching our team play should look in the mirror. It reflects more on them. |
Because we're guessing at some of this, the conservative approach seems to be wiser to me, ... If we screw up the other way, we'll dash our playoff hopes. |
Both teams predicate what they do on defense. They (both) are pretty demanding in that sense. |
Both teams were fantastic. It was a really good win against a very, very good basketball team. We played very, very well. That's the bottom line. We both played well. There were a couple of stretches that were not that great, but it's a 48-minute game and that happens. |
Brent was real aggressive tonight and that's when he's at his best, when he doesn't worry about making mistakes or missing shots. Just play the game and let it fly. |
By and large, with all the publicity Bruce gets for his style of defense, I think he does a great job of containing his emotions, not letting a referee's call get to him — or another player's comments. I think he does a great job of staying on high ground, just coming and competing and going home. |
Coach Brown doesn't surprise you, me or anyone else. He loves that stuff, |
Defensively, we just didn't play our normal game. And it cost us. |
Denver competed for 48 minutes. After we spotted them 18 points, we decided to compete. That's just not good enough. |
Eliminating back-to-backs when you go in the wrong direction and lose time and go to bed at 4 in the morning for the second game is very difficult for teams, as we have learned. You just can't bring the juice for 48 minutes. It shows in the discipline on the court and the execution on the court. If it was possible to change the entire schedule for everybody to have fewer of those, the quality would improve, without a doubt. |
Every time we got within four or five, they would get an offensive rebound. |
Everybody comes with their best game, which is great. Tonight we made a lot of mistakes but we plowed through it. In the end, we did a good job moving the ball and hitting our free throws and got the win. |