I think all his guys love to play with him. I think that's the biggest compliment a point guard can have is that they love to play with him because they know he can score the ball, but he's always looking to pass to other people and I think that's one of the biggest compliments you can have. |
I think less minutes is something that we're going to start trying to do now. |
I think their personnel is a little better than, ah, I don't want to get my boys upset at me or nothing. They have offensive players that can take over a game, [but] their forte is on the defensive end. They stop people from scoring. From that standpoint, that was the way we were playing 50 years ago. |
I think we're getting a little bit better on the defensive end. That's where we're going to make our move. |
I thought all of the guys had a lot of energy. |
I thought everyone had to pick up every phase of our game. |
I thought he'd be back ready to play. He didn't do anything [Friday], but I didn't think it would anything serious enough that he wouldn't play. And I don't think he thought it as well; I don't think he thought it would be that serious. |
I thought that we did a pretty good job in not getting caught up in the way Phoenix played. We don't have the offensive players that they have. Any team can get caught in the way they push the ball. |
I thought we did a pretty good job of not getting caught up in the way Phoenix plays. |
If Allen is hurt to the point where he can't play, you know he's really, really hurt. |
If they're not shooting the ball that well it can be a little tough, but they have different guys who have the ability to shoot the ball the way they shot it tonight. |
It's not [about sending a message]. We just have to find a way to work. If we do that on a consistent basis, we have more of a chance at winning games. |
It's satisfying to play that way, period ... . The last couple of games were a benefit. |
It's something we talked about where we could start over and kind of forget about the things that happened the first half, and just start new. That's what we've been focusing on, trying to look at this as a new season and just move past the old one. |
Johnny, as of late, has been coming in early anyway, so I just felt we needed a little bit of change maybe to help our aggressive defense from the beginning. |