We're three games down with 17 to go and two tough ones this weekend. That's why it's the NBA ? it's a tough business. We got to respond now. |
We're waiting to award him the game ball when he does (take one). |
We've dug ourselves a decent hole here and we're going to have to dig ourselves out. This is a game, if you're going to get serious about what you're going to do this season, (that) you've got to lay it all on the line there in the third quarter when we have a chance to win. We just looked out of it most of the night. |
We've got to do a better job with that chain of events. |
We've got to put together a string at some time. It doesn't mean we have to put together seven in a row or anything like that. At some point, we have to win five of six and maybe add another four out of five in there. |
We've had an up-and-down year as far as focus. |
We've had our ups and downs obviously this season. But the way they closed the season speaks to what kind of group of guys this is. We had many opportunities to not be as sharp, let the last few games go by and go on vacation (today). Whenever that (possibility) presented itself, the guys fought their way out of it. |
We've had so many close games in which we weren't able to make the big plays at the end. |
We've lost so many games like this; they've been close games and we're trying to fight to the end, but a play has to be made. |
Well, I normally err on the side of telling the truth, so I'm going to tell it. I'm really embarrassed by what happened out there. I thought we came out in the second half, we were pretty much as soft as I've seen. We played with very little heart, very little aggressiveness. |
Well, the team he went to is struggling mightily, I would say. |
Well, you know, I know a lot of times people think it's easy to just get the ball to a guy when the other teams knows exactly where it's going. Sometimes it's not that easy. Our guys are still learning. They're getting better at recognizing a hot hand and getting him the ball, but we're clearly not a finished product. But we had a decent look at a three-pointer with 18 seconds to go. We had our chances. |
What we are seeing is we have 1-1/2 guys who are not doing what they're supposed to do on a certain possession. |
What we tried to talk to the guys about [Tuesday] morning was that we've got a long trip. We can't have a carry-over from game to game, quarter to quarter, minute to minute. We've got to stay with it and work on our game. |
When the time came to make plays, they made a flurry. That coupled with some very poor decisions that we made (and) in a matter of minutes the game was gone. |