I think guys are starting to realize that when you put in hard work, and do all the little things, success comes. I think things are starting to come together. |
I think you have to go through things to appreciate what you have and what you have to do to win. Tonight I thought we had all the answers - we scraped, we dove for loose balls, we didn't give up on plays. It's a big win for us. |
I thought it was a track meet. Every time we got the lead down to one, they just turned it up. |
I wish Chris was healthy, but unfortunately he's not. We're just going to keep doing the things that we have to do. It's going to take more than me, Charlie (Villanueva) and Mike. It's going to take the whole team. |
I would have thought that Phoenix wouldn't be in the position they are. That just goes to show what kind of player Steve Nash is. Great point guards make guys better. And he's always played basketball the right way. I really admire what he's done in this league. |
I'd love to see him back in a Raptor uniform. |
I'm not going to sit up here and critique coach, or anything like that. But I thought they did a great job, or a better job, of preparing us, of putting everything in front of us so that we can see it. . . . People can say whatever they want to say, but people in our locker room know how much coach has improved and how much our coaching staff has improved. |
I've been around this organization for six years. I've seen guys come and go, so nothing surprises me. You have to always prepare that this could maybe be your last day. |
If you get an open look in this league, you've got to knock down the shot and we were knocking them down tonight. |
If you look at a lot of our games, we've been in a lot of dogfights. It's good to have nights where you play well. ... I thought we deserved to win. ... With us having a back-to-back, it's good for some of our young guys to get a lot of minutes in and develop and play. |
In only his second year I think he's grown a lot, I've seen a big change from the beginning of last year to now. |
In the first half, we played terrible, but in the second half I thought we pulled together and did what we had to do to win. |
It seemed like they wanted it more than us. We had beaten them all year, so it was a game they wanted to win. |
It seems like tonight was the same story, different day. We had the lead down the stretch, we didn't win. |
It seems like we're trying to check guys with our bodies instead of moving our feet. So whenever somebody drives the ball to the basket and we give them a little bump, we're being called for fouls. Everybody is making fouls. |