Not having Eddy and Jerome James is everything. You see how badly we get beat if somebody drives. We have no shot-blocking, no inside presence on defense. Or offense. So it's huge. But hopefully all that's behind him. |
Now we're playing for a championship. I look forward and not back, so this has been a pretty special last run. |
Obviously, without Eddy we don't have a post presence. We have to do it on the perimeter a bit. But you know we're trying to get to the rim . . . The whole thing in this league is that when you have a low-post presence, you can create double teams to open up outside shots. If you have a perimeter presence that can penetrate and kick, it's the same situation. It would be nice to have both. |
Oh man, I don't know if we can win a game. If we make our free throws we could have been 3-0 and you guys wouldn't have a damn thing to write. But we're not a 3-0 team. |
Once we cut the lead to seven, it's like I never saw a pass after that. We have a lot of young guys who maybe don't fully understand the importance of the little things. |
One of the referees even commented to me about how hard they were trying. |
One of the refs commented to me how hard they were trying. That's nice to hear. Tony Davis' effort was phenomenal. Leaders do that, and it carries over. |
Other than the first seven or eight minutes, I didn't think we matched their energy. After that, they just made hustle play after hustle play. |
Other than the first seven, eight minutes we didn't match their energy. |
Our best center by far is Jackie Butler. |
Our effort was great, ... Our young kids were terrific. |
Our effort was great. We tried to do things the right way. We were a little unorganized on offence but I kind of felt that would happen. |
Our first team didn't shoot all that well. The Magic had 14 steals to our zero. To me, by accident, you can get a steal. That makes me think we weren't aggressive defensively. |
Our perimeter defense isn't any worse than our interior defense. We want all of them to learn how to guard and have that as a priority. |
Our young kids want to be part of this. I think Isiah feels the same way. |