I think the energy we play with at home, we need to bring that on the road. That's what it's all about. |
I think we stayed hungry. But ... we can't put ourselves in a position to be down 20 (points) to be able to start playing basketball. |
I wish it never happened. Not so much for myself - I can handle it on my own - but it involves my family. They're trying to adapt to a new city. Now that I have a daughter, it's way different. That's the sad thing about the whole thing. You leave friends and people you're really close to behind. |
In the first quarter we were a little slow to get into our motion. Our job is to come off the bench and provide energy. |
It's very hard to make an impact in less minutes. I try to do my best, and I've had games when I come in and I do my distributing job as a point guard, get my assists going. It's just very hard. |
Me and him were talking a lot about us coming here and him having an opportunity here. And basically what he was telling me was he wants to get the love for basketball back. That means a lot to players who don't get a chance to play. |
My situation couldn't get any worse in Detroit. I was playing what, six minutes? I was just there. I was a little annoyed, you know? But I got through it. Our job is to maintain ourselves ready to play, take advantage whenever called. Hopefully I will get that opportunity here. |
That's our job -- to come in the game, bring energy and change the tempo of the game. |
They've already proved so many things, but they always feel like they have to prove something. That's part of what makes them the No. 1 team. |
This has given us confidence. Next year is going to be great. |
To practice, knowing you're not going to play, is hard. He took it, he learned and he grew. Now he's got an opportunity and he's taking advantage of it. |
To value every play is crucial at the end of the game. The fourth quarter we came through with a lot of energy and stayed focused of what we were trying to do as a team. |
We beat Dallas at home. Hopefully we'll have a game like we did against Dallas. We're looking forward to playing a team like that. It gives us an opportunity to know where we're at as a team, how much we've grown, and where our confidence level is. |
We got the monkey off our back. It feels great. |
We needed to come together at the end and we did. We helped each other on defense. We were up 20 once, but the most important thing was we came away with the victory. |