That's the Boozer we hoped for at the beginning of the year. |
The Bear was pretty darn funny. I got a kick out of watching him. |
The games are important. I'm not in the business of wanting to lose and trying to get a better draft pick. I really don't care about the draft pick. |
The games mean still something. It's not like you just throw (the ball) out there and you don't care if you win or lose. |
The way we started the game was atrocious. It looked like we wanted to play outside (on the perimeter) all night and that made it very difficult for us. |
Their basic job is to get ready to play basketball and I didn't think we came out with that intention, whatever the situation. There are a lot of distractions in basketball. |
There may be times when we use him like that. He can guard some guys bigger than him. |
There's no comparison ... He's so much farther ahead because his body fat's down, [and] he's just in better condition. |
These guys are excited about winning. They're excited about playing and pulling for each other. We didn't have that two weeks ago. We didn't have all our players (because of injury). Now we have a little bit of an idea of when our guys will play. Before it was potluck. |
These things were going to happen. Greg and I know that. That's just who we are. And we just go about our business. |
They (Jazz players) are not familiar with how to deal with the pressure, and so that's how they've always done it ? overpower people, and get shots off. But you have to make them. Because when we take standing shots that are not really in a rhythm or anything, we have a difficult time (defending) the other end of the floor. |
They are good and did a lot of good things, but our guys did not respond. That's the most disappointing game I've been involved with. |
They did a good job of getting after us. We looked like we were moving in mud. |
They did everything they wanted to do tonight. They looked in mid-season form and we looked like we were in exhibition season not knowing what we're doing. Too many times we were confused as to what we wanted to do on offense and that caused us a lot of problems. |
They didn't look like they had any energy and I think they were upset with me more than anything else. They had a little bit of an attitude about what's going on out there. It's kind of disappointing that those things would crop up now when you have an opportunity to get into the playoffs. |