There are five or six teams that can make it to the end. Nothing's changed. |
There are five or six teams that realistically have a chance to win the championship, and I definitely believe we're one of them. |
There aren't too many people who don't know that man's name. That says something. |
There is no doubt about it, both teams pride themselves on defense. It's not going to be a high-scoring game. It's going to be that type of series. |
There's a lot of balance. Vince really set the tone attacking. Curly was a force down low. J-Kidd, 15 assists, that's unbelievable. |
There's a lot of ups and downs to every playoff series. We didn't really get dominated. It was a game that was back and forth. They got (a questionable foul) call with 0.9 seconds to go that put them on the free throw line. That was the difference in the game, 0.9 seconds. So we weren't that far off. |
They have an unbelievable crowd here. But for us, it was, 'OK, they hit a few shots, let's calm down. We felt confident and it worked for us in the end. |
They paved the way and started the tradition. It's our job to be good players and good people for the ones who will follow us. |
They played the way we [had]. We normally get down, then you fight to the end and you don't seem to have enough. |
They're not trying to miss shots. |
This one has showed us that we've got everything going again and we're back in the groove. |
Vince has hit some of the craziest shots in the history of this league. But the importance of that shot is what I am most proud of for him. |
Vince hit some shots. He is going to shoot whether he is hot or not, but we have so much confidence in him. He received criticism from the media, he received criticism from different people, but it wasn't from anyone in this locker room. It wasn't from anyone in the coaching staff, because we believed in him and believed that he had the right intent. That was one of his games that you just forget about it and know that he is going to come out and play well the next one. |
Vince is our primary scorer and that's his role. When he goes down, it's not a surprise that we score with a lot of crazy shots or play out of our heads. We're just going out there and playing aggressively and good things are happening. |
We are a better team than this. We just had a couple of stretches where we are struggling, every team goes through that. |