We'll feel good about ourselves today and get back to work tomorrow. Tuesday's game will be a whole different ball game. We worked all year for home-court advantage. We can't come into Tuesday and lose it. |
We're entitled to have bad games. You just can't play like we did in the first half. It all started when they went on an (11-0) run when we were up 19-16. It's something you learn from. |
We're going to be hurt by it; he's one of our main guys. Someone else is going to have to pick it up. |
We're going to South Beach. It's on TNT. It's 8 o'clock. We'll be fired up. There's no reason we shouldn't play with intensity. |
We're in a funk. We have to find a way to tighten the screws. |
We're just riding on cloud nine right now. We're playing as well as anybody in this league right now. |
We're losing ball games, as simple as that. We're still (fourth) in the Eastern Conference. We can't get down on ourselves. |
We're playing the defending Eastern Conference champions the next two games. We've got to come out mentally focused. |
We're real confident right now. We can win in any kind of game, up-tempo games, grind it out games, on the road games especially, which we were able to capitalize on this year. It's showing how much our team has grown. |
We're riding on Cloud 9 right now. We're playing as well as anybody in the league. |
We're very excited. We came here to win two games, not one. |
We've been doing a great job of closing out games on the road lately. It's tough playing the same team twice (in a one-week span). We didn't want to put too much pressure on ourselves because of the guys they are missing. We tried come out and play like they had everyone. |
We've got that in mind. We know he has a lot of pressure on him being a rookie head coach. But we don't look at him as being a rookie coach. He seems like he's been doing it forever. He hasn't showed us any nervousness, but I know he will be before the game. |
We've spoken all year. We all just talk about just trying to lead our team. We're not saying all the way to the finals, but when I say lead our team, that's just going out and doing the right thing, on the court and off the court. |
What happened two years ago, that really motivated me to come out and play even harder. |