It's not a matter of we were playing a game, and then we had to stop the game, ... It was just coming into warming up, so we can always get warmed up. |
Kobe is the ultimate competitor, so any time we can hold him in check, we're happy. |
Night in and night out I look forward to playing the other team's top player. You have to pay attention to every detail when you are defending [James]. ... He's going to get his shot. You just have to contest it. |
Severna Park is the favorite this year and next year. They're four top players are all juniors. |
They have a wonderful economic-development program here, and they actually recruit gun businesses. |
They scored 14 points in the last 39 seconds. It didn't end on a high note and that's our attitude about this game right now. It puts a damper on tonight's game. We didn't accomplish what we wanted to as a team because of what happened at the end of the game. |
They're rolling right now. They're not the same team we saw earlier, and they have nothing to lose. They're playing really good basketball right now, and you have to give them credit for what they did. But we should have given a better effort tonight. |
They've made a sacrifice for us, to protect us and our families. I think more than anything else there's a profound appreciation for them. |
Tim is Tim. He's what makes us go. The media try to come up with something new and improved to say about Tim, but he is a wonderful player and that's who he is. |
To leave that and become disciplined to the point where you realize, 'OK, maybe now is not the time to take one in transition'... him getting that is huge. |
Watching the players in their environment was impressive. They were all great guys. I was like a kid in a candy store. |
We did a better job in the second half of the game tonight. |
We had more people distributing the ball in the second half and I was the beneficiary of some of those passes. When we do that, somebody is going to hit the wide-open shot. |
We had opportunities, ... We just made a couple mental mistakes down the stretch? That?s what bothers us the most. |
We just have to use it to recognize what we need to do to get better. |