(Webber) played huge. He stepped up. That's what leaders do. |
Allen just comes out and performs, and the numbers he puts up are great. He's just playing really really well right now. |
Allen just knows that I'm going to circle back behind him. I tried to pump fake it and get a foul. They didn't go for it and they jumped out of the way. I took a dribble to the side. I pulled up and gave it all I had. It was on line and luckily, I knocked it down. |
Anytime you come to Texas, you're going to play ... tough teams. This is a big win for us. |
He hit that (three-pointer) over me in the first game of the season. I thought I contested it so hard the first game and he still made it. I was, like, 'Not again.' But he missed it. |
He's by far the most laid-back coach I've ever had, |
He's just a freak. Whenever he wants to turn it on, he just has this switch. |
I don't think there's anybody not wanting to [play defense], but maybe, subconsciously , we haven't been completely focused. Tonight we kind of got caught up with the officials a little bit; we weren't completely focused in the second half. |
I don't want to make too big a deal about this because it's only one game. Let's see how we do Sunday (in Minnesota). |
I just can't figure out how he can miss that many days and come back and play like that. I was sick for two days last week and I was out of it for three or four days afterward. I couldn't get into a rhythm at all. |
I pulled up, and gave about all I had. It was on line, luckily. |
I really needed to get away. I'm back now. I'm not trying to force it. I'm not trying to prove I belong in a certain spot. |
I wasn't about taking responsibility because things just came to me. I got a lot of free throws. |
I went to games as a spectator and I saw the fun that it was. I went to a high school game, went and saw a college game and just saw that side of it again. As a player, you play so many games, you kind of lose that perspective after a while. I think once I saw that side again, it was like this is a fun game, it?s the game of basketball, I get paid to do this, let?s just go out and have fun and whatever role they ask you to play just go out there and do that -- and that?s what I?m trying to do. |
I?ve played in thousands of pickup games and maybe sprained an ankle here and there, but you can?t be that worried about it, |