The biggest thing is when you get touches, to make them quality touches. |
The first half of the season hasn't been the way we wanted it because we haven't beat the best teams. We've got to get it to that level where we can beat them. |
To lose him at this juncture of the season is very difficult. Other guys will have to be called upon to score a lot more and do a lot more things from the block. |
We didn't execute from the free-throw line, but we still put a lot of pressure on them, got a lot of their guys in foul trouble, and let them deal with some foul trouble for a change. |
We don't want him to be hurt. The season just started ... and he's a big guy. Something like that can be very hard on him. |
We feel like we can play better. We felt like the first game they hit us with a real good shot. We don't think we've hit them with a good shot, where we've dominated for 48 minutes. |
We got killed. We have to improve against the good teams. We're very frustrated with it. On Sunday we get a chance to correct that. |
We got killed. We have to improve. . . . We're very frustrated with it. |
We got New Jersey one step closer to catching us as the second seed. We have to finish up these last eight games on a strong note. |
We gotta concentrate more. When we've got a team down, we've gotta step on them. |
We had to play without our best player on the floor and it's cost us. He's the guy we depend on to make a lot of plays for us. He clogs up the middle and he can also get guys shots and that's the reason we shoot such a high percentage throughout the season -- because we can get him the ball when we need to. |
We haven't played very well against the top teams in the league, and everybody believes they know what's going to happen to us come April. Sunday is a big game for our confidence - to get a win against a quality team. |
We need to feel like we're in trouble. Our record is not where it's meant to be. We've got to become a dominant home team. They had it last year, and we've got to get it back this year. |
We want to even this thing up 2-2. It's more or less psychological for people that don't believe that we can beat them in a seven-game series. |
We're probably going to have to be content with the two seed (in the Eastern Conference playoffs). For us, I think, the biggest test for the remainder of the season is we have to compete well against Detroit. We play them a couple more times. We have to show ourselves and prove to ourselves we can beat them. |