He's working out like crazy. Still, any [injury] in your feet or legs usually makes it more difficult. |
His personality has definitely come out this year, there's no doubt about it. He's much more comfortable around the guys. With the coaches, we could always have a basketball conversation with him last year because he understood the basketball terminology. But just as far as other conversations, it wasn't terribly difficult but it's much more easy now. |
His speed has bothered us. He's made his open shots. We've given him too many free throws. |
Hopefully we'll have [Deng] ready for Thursday. We can use all the wings we can get for Thursday's game. |
Hopefully, this is something he can put behind him and it won't be a factor the rest of the season. |
I can only speak about [Monday's] game, and I didn't think there was anything outrageous going on out there. We fouled too much. Maybe two calls on Carmelo were debatable, but the rest of them I thought he earned his right to get to the line. |
I can write that one off, ... as just something strange that happened. |
I can't allow us to be blaming other factors for the way that we play. There's a very simple thing to do under those situations, and that's play better. We've done that a little bit too much this year: blame the refs, blame other situations, and that's not a belief system that I can endorse n ever. |
I didn't see the replay yet, but I'm sure it was a good call. |
I didn't think either team was especially sharp tonight, to put it mildly. It was anybody's game for the taking. They turned it up a little bit and we weren't able to make any big plays to stay with them, we could have at any moment exerted ourselves we could have come back, we just couldn't do it. |
I do believe the officials are doing their best. They also happen to be one part of the league that is beyond comment ? above and beyond comment. |
I don't how long, but I imagine for a few games, anyway. |
I don't know how badly he was hurt. So no, I wasn't surprised. |
I don't know how satisfied you can be when we still have a losing record. We feel like we're definitely playing better. The reality is we're about to find out. Our toughest West Coast trip is normally the circus trip [in November]. This year, they're flip-flopped. We did well on the first West Coast trip [3-3]. Now, this is a big one. All these teams [Dallas, New Orleans, Phoenix, Utah, Denver, Sacramento and the Los Angeles Clippers] are quality teams. Each team is really playing well. It's going to be a big challenge for us. |
I don't know if that has anything to do with anything. We went through [video] clip by clip. He doesn't have the ball in his hands any more now than he did at the other position. He's just on a nice little roll right now. Hopefully, he can keep it going. |