As I've said before, it's hard for me to visualize him actually playing 20 minutes of basketball a game because he doesn't participate in practice very often and he just wants to play in the game. That philosophically doesn't make any sense to me. I think he has a big- time heart. I think he's a big-time competitor and he did a hell of a job in the second half against Brand in Game 1. |
At least we know who we play. It's going to be fun. |
At North Carolina, we graduate our student-athletes, |
Avery ( Johnson is) a new coach (in his first full season for Dallas). I think the franchise needs ways to kind of establish their rep. I think winning a division is one of them. |
Bob had the courage to make changes in coaches and players. Most personnel people get to be over-analytical, over-studious. Hey, basketball is basketball. He lived on that principal. I don't think Bob had any computers, or studied stats or over-scrutinized. |
Carmelo was frustrated. I wish he wouldn't have done it because it changed the rhythm of the game. |
Carmelo was incredible. It shows that when he makes his jump shot he's very difficult, if not impossible, to cover. |
Coach Huggins is a great coach. I'm sure he'll be a friend of the Nuggets. I'm happy he's back. He deserves to be back. |
Coby is a very strong person and a very strong athlete. We're glad the surgery is over and he can get on with his recovery. This is a difficult process, but surgery is the beginning of recovery. |
Defensively, I thought we had a much better control of Parker and Duncan than we had in the past. I thought up in Denver, we didn't double-team as much. We kind of went to the double-team a lot more. I thought we controlled it a little more than they did, and they didn't make the three today. |
Defensively, we were good enough to win and it seems like our karma has changed and we are winning games. |
Detroit wins by being physically defensive. We matched that physical play and went hard to the glass. |
Doug, he's the best of keeping life at a level of happiness and spirit of 'everything's going to be great.' And you need it, |
Earl Watson's going to have a great career. He's going to have some great games and he's probably going to beat the Denver Nuggets somewhere along the way. Hopefully, it's not (tonight). |
Energy. Rotation. To put my best teams on the court. . . . To cover Sam. To get more minutes of a strong defender on Sam as I can. |