Under the circumstances with so many guys out we did a terrific job of keeping ourselves in the game with a chance to win. |
Under the circumstances, I can't be much prouder of this group of players' effort. I think they deserved to win this game. |
Under the circumstances, it was a profound effort. I thought our pick-and-roll defense was horrendous, we have to continue to work on that. We got off to a good start. |
Wade can do so many things. And when O'Neal demands a double team, Wade can kill you. I don't think anybody knew he would be quite this good coming out of Marquette. |
We can't afford to have another training camp now. We've just got to move forward and try to do the best we can the rest of the year. |
We changed a little bit at halftime and came from the perimeter and that probably had as big an effect as anything we did in the game. |
We could never plant our feet defensively and get a stop. Most of the time, when it really hurt us, it was the second shots. We'd get them to miss and then we just couldn't get the rebound. |
We decided, there at the end, to just use it to work on some things. So we got some good out of it. |
We didn't attack them in the (defensive) press very well, and they took us out of our offense. |
We didn't play. None of us. As bad as we played, Denver should have beaten us by 50. |
We didn't play. None of us. That was embarrassing. They played their bench because they play Phoenix (tonight). They rested their front-line guys. Our front-line guys couldn't compete with their bench. |
We didn't play. None of us. That's embarrassing. Our front-line guys didn't compete with their bench. There was no excuse for our performance. I gave the guys (Thursday) off because of the upcoming schedule and I shouldn't have. As bad as we played, Denver should have beaten us by 50 and they didn't. |
We didn't play. That was embarrassing. |
We didn't quit and fought back. We put ourselves into a position where, if we make a shot here or there, we have a chance to win. |
We don't have many whiskey drinkers on our team. We've got good guys. Our defensive scheme has to be team oriented. ... That's a work in progress with a team like this that's also very young. |