Last year's second-half stretch was incredible. Hopefully we can come together and do the same thing we did last year. I have confidence in me and my team to step it up. |
Me playing only 6 minutes in the first half really hurt us. Anybody gets frustrated over fouls. It's a matter of how you bounce back. I tried to come back in the second half and bounce back. . . . By that time it was a little too late. |
My confidence level is out of this world right now. I feel every shot I put up there is going in. |
My first season, I was just happy to be in the playoffs. Last year, I think we did OK against San Antonio. We didn't do much to win. We learned from that. I think this is the year that's going to separate us. |
My team needed me out there to get some things done. At halftime I just told them it's time for me to wake up and just go out there and win the game. |
Not really. I can see if it was a couple of years ago (when there wasn't as much West forward depth). I understand now there's a lot to people at my position. |
Now I do. I never really listened to them (before). Just seeing their merchandise and listening to them here and there (has given him an appreciation). |
Now we don't have to put too much pressure on ourselves. It was good to come on the road and get this win. I don't think anybody predicted where we'd be where we are right now in three years. This is one of the stages we've been trying to get to. Now that we're here, we want to move forward and win a playoff series. |
Of course it was a disappointment at first, having that as one of my goals at the beginning of the season. But at the end of the day you and everybody else knows how the West was. |
On the defensive end, they really turned up the pressure on us. |
Our team needed me out there to get some things done on the offensive end and the defensive end. At halftime, I just told (the team) it's time for me to wake up. |
Regardless of who it was, I was going to the hole. They weren't going to stop me that time. I was either going to get a foul or a dunk. |
Regardless of who they sent at me, I was going to the hole. We won the game, that's the only thing I'm happy about. |
Reggie is a (great) block-out guy and Ruben will go down there and battle. Sometimes, the ball just seems to fall right in my hands. |
Shawn Marion overplayed it, he reached, and once I saw that, I knew I had a clear shot at the basket once I got my feet set. I wanted to win, even before I got my face smacked. Then I got energy from that, even though Eddie did it. |