The 14-game (streak) was different because we never talked about it, we just went out there and played. This is kind of the same. We are not talking about the win streak, but more focusing on trying to get better. We have gotten better, we have won games and hopefully we can continue to do that. |
The All-Star Game isn't to make your season. You have to look at it that you get the break and time to make a run in the second part of the season. |
The big thing for us is to finish the season out right, and we're trying to do that. |
The big thing for us is to get back to winning and look at what we're not doing. That's taking care of the ball and having a better first quarter, defensively. |
The big thing for us is to have guys come off the bench and give the starters a break. That just makes us more of a dangerous team. |
The big thing is for Coach Frank, he is going to win games. It is just a matter of the team doing whatever we can do for him to get to 100. |
The big thing is to be healthy and mentally and physically fresh and ready to go. The way Coach presented it to us after the game, we don't have much time to practice. So you got to use each situation as practice and each day to get better. That is the way we have to approach it. |
The big thing is, we showed our experience. We came out in overtime, put pressure on them, made some shots and made some stops. |
The big thing was playing defense. That's the blueprint of this team, if we're going to have any success is getting stops. We did that at the right time. |
The bottom line for us is defense. It's not about our offense. It's always been about out defense. When we play good defense, we can compete with anybody. When we don't, that's when we find ourselves in a bad position. |
The break came at a good time for us physically and mentally. Now we are ready to make a run. |
The defense did a wonderful job. When we play defense, we have a good chance of winning. It was not a pretty game, but good teams win ugly games. We're going in the right direction. |
The first game we were more passive and tonight we came out with the intention of playing defense for 48 minutes. (The physical play) is what the playoffs are all about. It was expected. |
The first half we were going through the motions. We weren't playing with fire. And with energy and defensive presence, we cut the lead down and it was a tie ballgame. We felt comfortable we could make a shot or stop when we had to. |
The first one is always the toughest. We haven't won a playoff game for some time. It means a lot to us to get one under our belt and now we can move on. |