The challenge for us is to close this season out on a positive note and carry into next season. We've got a very young team and hopefully we can just keep everybody together because I think everybody has accepted their roles. |
There are going to be nights where he just totally dominates the glass. He has the potential to do that. He has the talent to do that. He has the work ethic to do it. |
There was no trash-talking going on. I don't know if he was frustrated with a couple of missed calls or something like that. That's not what I was out there doing. I was just playing basketball. |
They have like an unspoken language when they're playing together. They're a great team, a championship team, the best team in the league. |
We got stops in overtime when we needed them. Iverson is so tough to stop and you're never really going to stop him. We tried to make him take tough shots and make them take tough shots. It's a big win for us. To come on the road and keep this winning streak is great. It's very satisfying to get this win after working like we did tonight. |
We just have to get better offensively. It's definitely frustrating. We have a game plan, a job to execute it and for whatever reason, it doesn't happen. |
We need to take this momentum and roll it over like cell-phone minutes next season. |
We're building chemistry every day, and we're really figuring out how to play with one another. What we're doing now is just going to be a great stepping stone to the future for us. |
When you're playing a good team like that, you've got to take care of the basketball. |
You can call it shaky. I call it poise . . . . And the thing is, we don't know who's going to do it. Everybody's making plays down the stretch. |
You get in the heat of the battle and sometimes situations aren't handled the way they should be. I think that was an example of that tonight. |
You have to defend your home court if you want to be a playoff team. |
You lose games in the NBA. That's the bottom line. Sometimes you're going to lose games you win on paper. They're getting ready for the playoffs. They're hitting their stride. I think they'll be all right. |
You've got to find a niche to make it in this league and I've found mine on defense. Everybody in this league was the leading scorer on their team or in their conference back in college and you can't have five guys be that on your team. Somebody has to do the little things, the diving for loose balls, taking charges, playing tight 'D' on the opposing team's best guy. That's what I do. That's what I bring to this team. |