Defense as a whole is going to be very big for us. We're going to have to team rebound. Our aggressiveness is going to be the key and how mentally strong we're gonna be. |
I just wanted to be the first guy to get off because nobody was thinking about the game. Everybody was distracted. I knew the first team that got their head in the game first would win. |
I've been telling him that he's 'The Man' and to play the way he's been playing all year. He's played well against this team so he doesn't need to put too much pressure on himself because it's the playoffs. |
It's going to be a whole lot different. The fans are going to be crazy. |
Maybe if we can get a few playoffs wins, next year it'll be better. |
They hit a last-second, lucky shot. What can you do? We didn't convert on our last play and they pulled something out of the sky. |
They played hard. They were real aggressive on defense and you could tell that they're in a nice zone. They're in a groove with that 10-game winning streak. They really moved that ball. |
They were jumping over us. We weren't blocking out. |
They weren't going to give it to us. That's only fair when it's playoff time. They came out and played as hard as they've played all season. It's only fair so the other team doesn't feel cheated. |
To be a professional, sometimes you've got to put aside how you are playing or the number of minutes you're playing, you have to check it at the door and just come to win. That's what everybody has on their minds, winning games. It's harder when you have to fight attitudes on your own team, and then have to fight the other team. If one person is unhappy, then everybody is unhappy. |
We definitely feel more like a team. We just sat around at dinner, and ate and talked about old Hubie (Brown) stories. We reminisced about what we've been through to get to this point. It was good for us to sit there and bond. |
We didn't do our job on the boards. It was terrible. We've got to be more physical with them. We've got to compete. |
We just want to win as many games as we can win. It's not about who we play. It's about how we play when we get to the playoffs. |
We wanted to take the Hawks to the playoffs. That was the thing we were talking about back then. |
We've got two days to fix what went wrong. |