It's maybe the best news of the night, that's the best Nick's played in a long time. That's the way he's been practicing. I am proud of him. |
It's nice to have it out of the way. |
It's not a Division I school. It's a good school, but they should really think about going to Division III and putting academics first if they're not going to put any money in sports. |
It's over. I don't think I'm going to feel anything. There's no players on the team that I coached. David [Robinson] will be in the stands, but that's it. |
It's part of what all point guards go through. He's our point guard. We're going to live and die with him and part of that is helping him understand the NBA and how hard it could be. |
It's pretty hard to contend with just a minor spill. Imagine if this was crude [oil]. |
Just an all-around good win. One of our best. |
Kenny Thomas is a nice player, but he shouldn't have 18 rebounds. That just can't happen. |
Like I told them many times and we did it (Wednesday) night, you've got to play with who's available. We'll make the best of the situation. |
Mike said if a running team ever gets the guy, he's going to be great. With those guys, he never had a chance to play. Mike was right. |
Not to diminish their win, but we had some guys go down tonight on top of the other guys that we have that are beat up right now. The Spurs are a great team. They are long, they play together and they are a deep team. They are built to win a championship. |
Now we have a whole bunch of committed players, where before we had too many dissident guys who just didn't want to be here. So there was no way we were going to build a team until now. |
Obviously, we have to tweak our defense and hopefully score points off that. We have the ability to run. |
One thing about Ray Allen , at some point he's going to make shots. |
One thing about Ray Allen: He is going to hit shots. (The final play) couldn't have worked any better. Something got Ray mad and he just turned it on in the second half. |