I'm going to give you the ball, and you give it back to me in good shape when the game is over. |
I've been waiting for this [the PG job] for three years. |
If I can drive in there and get two people on me, there's no need to shoot it. Somebody else is open. When I was a shooting guard, I had to be more offensive-minded. Now I'm getting back into the pass-first deal, and that's comfortable for me. |
If we are going to lose, we are going to go down swinging. |
If we're going to go, we're going to go down swinging -- leaving everything out there on the court. |
If we're going to win games, we're going to have to make stops. We couldn't get stops. |
If we're gonna lose, we're gonna go down swinging and leave everything out there on the court. Some games it's gonna come down to the ball bouncing your way, but we try not to let it happen that way. |
It has been a long season for us. Coming into this game, we just wanted to wipe our slate clean and say that we're 0-0, and we have an opportunity to play one game. The only way we get another opportunity is if we win. I think everybody in this locker room realized that. |
It's a new position for me, but as long as I'm getting better every game. I'm more focused on not scoring, but not turning the ball over. I'm trying to make smart plays. |
It's going to be real important for us to be encouraging so we don't let this (slump) beat us the next game. |
It's his confidence level. When he's shooting the ball like that, it's not really technique or none of that stuff. It all has to do with confidence and his confidence is through the roof right now. |
It's just an emotional game. There's no hard feelings. I know I've done dumb things, too, in my time, things that hurt the team. You get frustrated. It's just part of the game. |
It's kind of hard to replace them. |
It's not like we're getting blown out by forty or anything like that. We're right there in the game. We've just got to get those guys on the ship and toughen those games out. |
It's tough playing from behind. We needed stops and rebounds and we didn't get either. |