He just told me (before leaving), 'Just run the team, make stuff easy, and let's get this victory. |
He just told me just run the team, make stuff easy and let's get this victory. I kind of patted him on the butt and told him don't worry about it, we'll go get it for him. |
I look at it like I've been playing basketball for about 18, 19 years. I think every basketball situation is the same. Either you're going to hit the shot, or you're going to make the pass or you're going to get the defensive stop. Basically, this is a whole other level and it's all about repetition. |
I'm a basketball player. I understand this is a business. |
I'm just comfortable around him. I look at him like just one of the guys on the team. I wouldn't be afraid to laugh and joke with coach Case or tell him that his hat is funny, something like that. Just having a sense of humor, being able to have a relationship between your coach and point guard, it's always good. |
I'm pretty sure they knew what they were doing when they got me. |
In the fourth quarter, they started to fatigue. We don't ever want to be the team that fatigues. |
It doesn't look good, but we're going to keep fighting. Anything can happen. |
It felt really good to win and it was really a team effort. I hope we can get a couple of wins in a row. The bench has to bring it every night and if the first team's adrenaline isn't rushing the second unit needs to get in there and pick up the slack. |
It was a big shot and I took it. My teammates had confidence in me. |
It was a good team win and we'll take it any way we can get it. |
It's a little bit tougher on the road. Basically, it comes from not closing the games out. We're doing a better job at home than on the road. We just have to carry that out to the road. |
It's a lot of teaching, a lot of bonding from Kevin (Garnett) and the other guys on the team. Today was really like the first day of practice. It made it really fun. |
Kevin is a great guy to play with and he really found all the openings in the defense and he got the rest of the team the ball. |
Me and Mike, we've been friends for a long time. He and Antoine (Walker) basically took me under their wing when I first got in the league. Basically he said he's been watching me and I've really been playing well. He's just trying to keep me positive about the situation. |