San Antonio can be beaten.

This is the nuts and bolts of the NBA season. Your body doesn’t feel as good, you fight a little fatigue, you have some injuries, and nobody cares about injuries.

The doctor told me he kind of tweaked his knee a little bit. We’ll know more tomorrow.

He’d be in the danger area if he played today. It’s not that bad, but we don’t want it to get worse.

He got some big stops and rebounds for us and stopped them from getting some rebounds and that is what he’s here for.

This is the best he’s looked in the last couple of days. Hopefully, we can get in a good practice in Utah, and then we’ll see how he looks.

They know I love to practice, and we don’t really brag on how much we practice or how much we prepare like a lot of other situations. But they know I love to practice and...

We just don’t have the fire right now. We’re not there mentally or physically. Hopefully we will be there in eight days.

We haven’t had a guy who can play that kind of defense,

Nick is so hungry for a championship. I remember when we lost to San Antonio in the Western Conference finals. I had never really seen Nick that emotional. All he had on his mind was...

Minimum, top five or 10. And it depends on the team. If I’m doing the mock draft, [Howard’s] in there. I say a prayer for whoever is responsible for that one.

In 1992, when I was out of the league waiting for a job, my dad passed away and my wife was pregnant. People will tell you, ‘Oh, I never doubted for a moment.’ Well, I...

He’s not underrated in our book. He does a lot for us. And when you do things on a more consistent basis, you tend to catch people’s attention.

We couldn’t do anything right tonight.

We don’t care how we win. We’ll take it however we can get it.

This team doesn’t like losing one in a row.

Marshall was outstanding tonight because he really competed at a high level. He had to play point guard for almost three quarters and that is not his natural position. We are really excited about what...

always thought of him as a triple-double guy.

It didn’t make any sense to blow this team up and have Dirk come back and not recognize any of his teammates.

It was nice to get the big lead and to spread out the minutes a little bit. But we are a flawed basketball team and we are still working through some things. We have to...

He’s proven he can go two weeks and jump out there and do something, but as we get closer toward the end of the season, I’d like to try to plug him in here and...

The guys really tried to get T-Mac the ball.

We had no answer for him. We tried to double-team him, we tried to zone him, we tried to trap him in the backcourt, and nothing worked. He had his way with us tonight.

(Josh is) day-to-day. He kind of tweaked his leg a little bit but right now, talking to the doctor and Josh, I expect him back. The doctor told me (Keith) just kind of tweaked his...

They’re booing the man out there, and I’m not sure why that’s going on. But he wanted to win, and I gave Stack a big hug after the game, because he tried to beat them...

We think our chances are not good.

You’re not always going to get a double-double, but you want him to play with intensity and not get so many cheap fouls, showing some emotion.

A very disappointing loss, a disappointing way to end our road trip. Their point guards destroyed us. It’s that simple. They destroyed us.

They were playing loose and had nothing to lose.

Our first quarter defensively really set the tone. We worked on a lot of stuff this morning. They (Atlanta) missed a lot of shots but the defense was better than it was in that last...

I don’t think words could describe what that could do for the city. The city has been ravaged. They need some good news. Tourism is a big part of their whole economic structure. Hopefully they...

I sure hope we’re different. We seem to have been playing more physical basketball on the defensive end. Again, that was just one of those special games, the guy got on fire and obviously, since...

We could have gotten a little lethargic. We won’t rule it out.

There is going to come a time here – I don’t know when – when we’re going to start getting some guys back. And it’s going to be very important that those guys get back...

All you’re going to remember is the last shot. That’s all that matters.

He understands what we’re doing,

We’re not going to win a championship because some guy comes in and plays like Michael Jordan, … We’re going to win as a team. We’re going to win when Dirk Nowitzki continues to move...

He’s giving us the big drives when we need them and the big assists. He draws a lot of attention. On nights when his offense is not there, we need him to be a ball...

What they have done the first half of the year, I wouldn’t have disagreed with five.

I thought this was our best performance of the series. We talked about playing tough, hard-nosed defense tonight to try and close this series out.

It was not a flawless game … but I thought we were a little bit more aggressive and our aggression paid off.

We were lethargic physically and mentally. We didn’t show up. We didn’t have that juice that we normally have off the bench.

That’s the key, play at our tempo. We don’t play as fast as we used to, but we’re at our best when we get out in transition. That’s what we want to do when we...

A very disappointing loss. We played a short stretch there in the fourth quarter a little bit. But other than that, we didn’t play well at all again tonight and that’s what concerns me.

We are trying to win a championship. But we’re in the first year of implementing a program.

We didn’t want him to play 40, but he felt pretty good and he looked OK.

We looked like we were a little tired. But our guys have been battling. I’m on the train with them, whether it gets rocky or not. Right now we are just sputtering.

We’ve been going pretty hard in practice and in the games. It’s something we like to do.

I’m at a loss for words on our defense. We’ve got to have significant improvement.

I don’t want our team to misconstrue the message of us trying to get to the next level. We’re not going to get there in one night, all right? No matter what’s been said over...