It’s not like defenses are out there just giving guys 50 and 60 points. You have to look at what’s going on this season and realize there are just as many great players playing today...

There may be one million people who love me, there may be 10 million people who hate me. What do I do? I go to battle for those 1 million people.

I believe that whatever we have, regardless of a trade being done or not, I feel we have a shot. I’ve just got to believe that we’re going to be all right. I’ve got to...

They want us to get down. I’m going to get down.

I don’t think the loss will make us play any harder. If you aren’t playing hard at this point, then you aren’t going to be playing hard anyway.

When you have a half like that, nine times out of 10, you’re going to have a good lead.

You can’t just put it on one thing. We have been doing a lot of things well. We are playing well together, we are defending, we are doing a lot of positive things out there.

I dress to make myself comfortable. I really do have a problem with it. . . it’s just not right.

I just got more aggressive. I didn’t have the ball in my hands that much in the first half because I was playing the 2-guard. When they took John out of the game in the...

It’s a big win for us…just because we’ve been struggling to win a game after a game. You feel good about not giving up one after we win one.

There’s only one thing I still haven’t done and that’s win (the championship). That’s the only thing I want now.

I’m as disappointed as everybody else on my team. We wanted to go into the holidays with a win. We’ll have to get this one out of our system and come back to work.

He took advantage of his opportunities. He just got himself involved. He played a great game.

Anybody who is a competitor knows this is what you want, this is what it’s all about. As a competitor, this is the kind of situation you live for.

I think that as far as talent, we have enough to get over the hump. We are just not doing it. You can?t coach it, you can?t preach it. It is just something that players...

We moved the ball around today. Everybody did a great job playing off each other.

Looking back on everything that happened with me and coach, 99 percent of the time it was my fault. I see that now, definitely. … Now that he’s gone, you understand you lost a lot.

It probably was a fall and it swelled up on me. I kept playing on it. … My doctors just said rest it as much as possible.

I was like a kid in a candy store. It felt like the first game of the season because I was excited to be back.

We know that team was 0-6 and just for those guys to come in here and get a win would have been devastating to us. Our whole thing was to not let them get their...

We can score on anybody. But we have to focus on defense. They were just outworking us. Everybody has to step up, period, for us to be a better team.

She was laying on the floor and she’d be having her arm around me.

Saying something won’t mean anything. We’re gonna have to do it. I can’t tell you anything that’s gonna make you feel like we can turn it around. All I can do is believe in that...

We’ve just got to understand that (tonight) is a different day and we’ve got to perform better than we did (Wednesday) night.

It’s an honor. It’s tough enough just to make an All-Star team, but when you’re able to be a starter, it just says a lot about being pretty much one of the faces of the...

I don’t care. I feel like if we don’t make a trade, we have to get it done with what we’ve got.

Just getting back into the game and making it a game is all heart. It feels bad, though, because we don’t give that effort in the beginning and then we start showing the heart when...

We aren’t playing defense and we aren’t rebounding the basketball. This has gotten off to a bad start, but we have to find a way to turn it around.

It’s going to be hard. But I think that when we are in tough environments, it helps us focus more and it helps us concentrate. We’re looking forward to it. We are playing with a...

We had our chance to get back in the game in the third quarter when Dirk went down but Jet (Terry) and Marquis picked up their games and we didn’t.

Everybody’s trying to get better, even myself,

The most I got out of it was that guys need to take a challenge to make this team better. He talked about during this bad time that we’re going through right now that it...

I don’t really care if I play well or play bad, it’s frustrating to lose the game. It doesn’t do any good if we play well and lose basketball games. You still got a loss....

It felt terrible but I was glad I played all the way through so I didn’t have to sit down and have it stiffen up. It stiffened up real bad at halftime but I managed...

I told him before the play that if both men went to me, to go to the basket and get a good shot. Things didn’t go the way we wanted tonight.

When they start talking about suspending me and hurting what we’re trying to do here as a basketball team, then I don’t have (a) choice but to abide by it,

There’s no way to explain it. We just got beat up. We’re not stop-ping nobody, man. … And if we can’t stop nobody on the defensive end then it’s hard to get into any type...

I got us off to a bad start from the beginning of the game. The magnitude of the game and being in so many games like that, for me to be the one to act...

We’re going to need team efforts, we’re going to need each other down the stretch. With 29 games to go, we’ve got to win more than half of those to give us a better seed...

If I had an explanation, I’d give it. We just got whipped from beginning to end. They did everything right, and we couldn’t do anything right.

I think it would have been good if we could have played all pre-season games together. It will be something we’ll have to deal with, something we’ll have to fight through.

We understand that we’re going to get the ball into Tim and play off him.

They are hungry and they needed to win desperately, so obviously they are going to bring energy and effort.

God blessed us, … It rained but we’re still out here. This is what life is about. I’m glad I could get out here to put some smiles on these kids’ faces.

His opinion is his opinion – and it’s just that. I don’t have anything negative to say about him, and I don’t have anything negative to say about the situation.

I can’t tell you anything that is going to make you feel like we are going to turn it around. All I can say is we are still alive and we still have a chance....

The first appearance is always going to be the most memorable. This one is special because I’m 30 years old and you hear all the negative things about your game declining and at this point...

He was angry, and had every right to be.

I don’t want to just go to the playoffs, I don’t want to go to the playoffs and win the first round, second round, and not win the whole thing because it’s bittersweet.

I kind of was frustrated with myself in the sense that I was missing easy shots,