The only way to beat Phoenix is hope to get them on a bad day and hope they miss shots.

That’s what we spoke about in the locker room, character in an NBA game. It’s more crucial to play hard in the last minute than the first 39. Anything can happen in the final minute...

We get down by 15 and we come back, but we exert so much energy and then we get down again. It’s never-ending. It’s been like that all season.

Basketball is a global game, just like soccer is a global game. You see the Manu Ginobilis and Yao Mings of the world. We can play the game in every country.

Once he was gone, the guys didn’t really flow in their offence as much. There was a lot of pressure on Parker and (Robert) Horry and those guys, and that really helped us.

We tried to make him shoot the jumper in the first half and we brought help on him (in the second half). He started to find teammates, and that’s the sign of a great player....

I just want to try to ignore the scrutiny and all the distractions and just play hard basketball and let the best come, … Improving game by game and trying to improve my game is...

We’ve got to win. These are our rivals, New Jersey, Chicago and Philly.

I think I have a lot of room for improvement. I just got to keep striving to work hard everyday and I think good things will happen. As long as we get the win it...

There’s no way we’re going to lose Game 3 and come back and win this thing. There’s not going to be any fairy tales. We need to get Game 3.

I remember when I was a kid having the Friday night games or the Saturday night games – a South East Melbourne versus Melbourne . . . they were huge, sold out, you couldn’t get...

It’ll be fun, but it’s more of a fan thing. To me, winning games and getting to the playoffs is the big thing.

They wanted to get out of here, which was good for us.

not as slow as Luc Longley. I can shoot better, I’m more competitive. So I think it’s not even fair to bring that name up.

It’s frustrating. We don’t play Phoenix many times, so it’s kind of hard to adjust to their style of play.

That’s not my goal, to win rookie of the year. I don’t care about that stuff. Individual goals. Usually, the rookie of the year doesn’t make it to the playoffs. I’d rather make it to...

It’s part of the game. But it’s frustrating because I was saying the same thing that Detroit was saying but I said it and I get T-ed up. And then the possession they say it...

I’m definitely going to be coming into sport. It will be in Australia. Basketball will hopefully be the priority,

Definitely not. I don’t like how it looks, but I don’t play basketball for looks.

I’d rather have this win and not score much. Personal accolades at this time of the year don’t really matter.

I found my form late,

It’s kind of hard to adjust to their style of play. We tried to throw some different looks at them, but at the end of the day, it wasn’t really up to us. It was...