Coach Brown doesn't surprise you, me or anyone else. He loves that stuff, |
Defensively, we just didn't play our normal game. And it cost us. |
Denver competed for 48 minutes. After we spotted them 18 points, we decided to compete. That's just not good enough. |
Eliminating back-to-backs when you go in the wrong direction and lose time and go to bed at 4 in the morning for the second game is very difficult for teams, as we have learned. You just can't bring the juice for 48 minutes. It shows in the discipline on the court and the execution on the court. If it was possible to change the entire schedule for everybody to have fewer of those, the quality would improve, without a doubt. |
Every time we got within four or five, they would get an offensive rebound. |
Everybody comes with their best game, which is great. Tonight we made a lot of mistakes but we plowed through it. In the end, we did a good job moving the ball and hitting our free throws and got the win. |
Everybody is more organized and feels comfortable. They have a better idea of when they are coming into the game and how long they will play. |
Everyone acts like this is some new thing, this thing with Dallas. The last five or six years have been exactly the same way. Exactly. A game difference or two. Half-a-game. Every single year. This isn't anything new, for us or for Dallas. |
Flip has upped their offense. He has them really confident in what they're running offensively, but they're also one of the best defensive teams in the game. |
For him to focus even though, offensively, he didn't have a great game was good to see. |
For one to get that number of wins, it only takes half a brain to know why. I've been blessed with a group of players that go out on the court and win games. It doesn't have too much to do with me, but I will keep the ball they gave me. |
Good basketball teams have to do that if you want to be standing at the end of the year. You have to play through that sort of thing. ... All that matters is the end result. The character of (this) team shows when you can play through that sort of thing. |
Good basketball teams have to do that if you want to be standing at the end of the year. You have to play through that sort of thing. There are several teams in the league capable of doing that. Hopefully, we're one of them. |
Good win for us against a very good team. We needed to get back to who we are and what our personality is. I thought we did that tonight. |
He accepts people. He makes them feel comfortable. He helps make the pieces fit around him. |