He helped carry this franchise for a lot of years and he didn’t take many nights off. I think that’s what I really respected about him.

I think the Mavericks — our team — we’ve kind of forgotten who we are as basketball team and what made us successful. It wasn’t shots on the offense. It wasn’t holding the ball. We’ve...

We have guys watching all of the teams we can possibly play against, logging the miles, flying across the country. I think over-preparation is a good thing.

He was one of the first coaches that came in and started talking about winning a championship and winning it with defense and don’t even make apologies about it. Don’t blink. Don’t even blink when...

And I think he wants another shot, because he was really disappointed that he was unable to play in the playoffs. We missed him tremendously. That’s just like the Spurs losing Robert Horry. That’s the...

We didn’t come here to get any moral victories. I’m disappointed with his loss.

I love it. I wish we could play the last 20 games like this because I really want to try to go into the playoffs playing at a high level. But you can’t play at...

I didn’t think we guarded Finley or [Robert] Horry well at all.

These two teams have a lot of pride. Memphis doesn’t back down from anybody, and it has not played its best game yet.

Overall it was a good team effort and we were fortunate enough to be able to rest some guys in the fourth quarter.

Our team is not playing enough of a 48-minute game and that’s the disappointing thing. We know it’s tough to win road games. This was a hot team team we were playing, give them credit....

I expect him back. Josh is a warrior. If it’s something that might linger, then we’ll think about sitting him out.

I think we need to get off to better starts. The last couple games, we kind of dug ourselves a hole. You can’t just turn it on in the second half.

We got so much going on around here, I don’t look at that.

Are they tired of what? What have we done? It’s a hundred days to the Finals right now. This is what the NBA season is about. It’s not about having three days off between a...

We’re disappointed with the way we finished the game. Our defense wasn’t very good tonight. We gave up 65 points in the second half. We had a lot of things go wrong defensively.

My guys are pretty smart. They know exactly where they are. I kind of like that we have something to play for, playing against playoff teams.

This tragedy didn’t hit Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama. It hit America.

Sometimes, when a player has a lot of pressure on him, you don’t always get exactly how they’re feeling, because they want to tell you what you want to hear.

They had a great start to the game. They came out and really tried to throw a knockout punch on us. Fortunately, we were able to withstand it, come back and get our defense set...

We fought. This was a playoff atmosphere. We wish we’d have been able to match their intensity down the stretch. But we didn’t. We just did not execute. We were hesitant. We didn’t get to...

Guess what? I went out on a limb for it. I stand behind it. I’ve done pretty much all I can do. I need to get a return on my investment. I think Damp will...

I’ve never really gotten excited about games too much in February. But at the same time, obviously the guys are doing a lot of positive things on the court. You’d be crazy not to think...

My relationship with the players is very important. We think that’s had a positive effect, so that when I do scream every now and then, they take it the right way.

We really liked the way he played defense this summer and the way he was able to get us into some of our offense. I made a special trip to Utah (summer league) just to...

We didn’t earn our paycheck. We need to give Mark Cuban a rebate, all of us.

You can’t whisper the whole game,

They didn’t hear much from me at halftime. No throwing chairs, VCRs or Gatorade bottles. I didn’t get in anybody’s face.

Points are hard to come by against Memphis, and it’s been that way for everybody because of their tempo … and their defensive scheme. We’ve got to place a premium on getting good shots.

We were always late bloomers.

They were in sync. It really shows how great of a team sport basketball can be when you have everybody on the same page.

I went out on a limb for it. I stand behind it. I’ve done pretty much all that I can do.

We didn’t come here for any moral victories. We’re very, very disappointed that we lost this game.

We had to get more physical on him in the second half.

It’s mostly what Devin’s done. He’s been pretty good for us.

For us to be injured and trying to get some guys back, I guess we’ve got to be pleased with the results.

We battled, we fought – this was a playoff atmosphere. We wish we would have been able to match their intensity down the stretch, but we didn’t.

For Josh, it’ll be a test for him coming back for the first game, especially against a really good defensive team.

It’s devastating what has happened to everyone,

How many teams in our league can do what we’ve done in the last two games. We’re supposed to be not very good defensively and we’re supposed to be a team that’s soft. I don’t...

Griff takes a turn on everybody.

We put together a pretty decent game from start to finish. We had a few key contributors from Dirk and Devin finding Terry for those big shots to start the third. But again, we have...

We couldn’t get any space between us and them, and they didn’t quit. And then we could only make five of our last eight free throws. Just a very disappointing night.

We pretty much know where we’re going to finish now. The only thing that really matters for us is to get guys healthy mentally and physically.

It’s a big improvement from last year, … He’s really trying defensively. And the kid is healthy. Last year he was playing on one ankle.