He made some very difficult shots. That ball basically didn’t touch the rim and that is what they pay him for.

It was an easy decision to exercise the options for Matt and Alan. Their play earned them the opportunity to return and continue the strong progress made this season.

He probably forgets he wrote a book for profit and (revealed everybody’s confidences). So he has no credibility.

Detroit played with a purpose. They’ve been struggling a little bit; if you can call 50 wins struggling. They just have too many pieces.

It’s disappointing. But we’ve got to find a way to move on.

We are excited that Matt chose to return to Charlotte and continue to build upon last year’s start. Matt added several dimensions to our team with his long-range shooting, toughness, strong work ethic, rebounding and...

I don’t have any problem with people feeling that way, … What the hell? Let’s go for it.

They finished the right way. It’s a group of young men that maximized what they had. They just kept fighting.

When we come to Miami, we need to just mail it in. We don’t even need to stop.

It’s not an embarrassment to lose to Detroit that way. They are a very good basketball team. But I told my guys that I would go in a foxhole with them any day. They never...

He had no lift and his quickness was affected on post-up stuff.

What a game, historically, to be a part of.

They have a good balance with (Miller) and Bobby Jackson coming off the bench.

He was really grimacing. Primo needs this break as much as anybody here. We need to lock him up in a house somewhere so he can’t get to a gym.

What a resilient group. After last night, all the fanfare today. … I don’t know where they got it from.

We still lack the maturity that when you have control of the basketball game, you can’t let anybody take you out of it. We had a lead and things started to go awry. We lost...

We had two good looks in the last few seconds. You had guys who shoot the ball from the outside, and shoot it well, that took the shots. Call it the bounce of the basketball.

So he has no credibility.

Those three guys are pretty good. When you’ve got three guys who can score, you can put the ball in their hands.

I thought the disruptions and the turnovers that we forced, we got baskets off them.

Peoria, Connecticut, Atlanta, … I’ve got the Big East tournament on Thursday, the ACC on Friday, the SEC on Saturday. Then we’ve got the NCAA tournament. We’ve had guys out for the past six months....

And he’s got skills, obviously, … You have to have something to go along with intelligence. He’s got basketball skills, and he really understands the game.

(Carroll) shot it without hesitation tonight and that’s important. What’s more important is they were getting him the ball and he should have had the ball. When he has the ball or when he comes...

They beat us where the men play: down on the boards. They kicked our butts where the men play. They wanted the ball more than we did.

We have to ad lib, which is basically what we’ve been doing. The group has done a nice job adjusting. We have to do different things with different personnel.

They don’t lay down. It’s not an embarrassment to play against Detroit. They’re a very good basketball team.

They earned it. It was not a gift. I think it’s good. I’m happy for them. I’m not just happy for them. Hell, I’m happy for all of us.

He’s very, very difficult to handle. They got him the ball in the right situations. It was a fun game. You saw some great athletes, young athletes, that the league is going to have to...

It’s the medical people that are putting a hold on him.

It all boiled to down to decisions. I think at critical junctures we made some pretty good decisions. In our last four games we had deficits and then we took the lead, but we haven’t...

If you stop one player, they go somewhere else. They seem to always know where to go, and somebody always delivers.

The way we are, we just can’t match up with the athletic big guys like Howard. I don’t care how much you fight, those guys are just too athletic. Those are the guys we have...

Phil has that ability (to judge). He was in our locker room ? at our games.

The opportunity was there. Offensively we were lethargic.

We had it, we just didn’t secure it. We had a possession there, all we had to do was pick the basketball up. It was a mistake of commission. They (Milwaukee) went and got it...

That was a big defensive breakdown on that last shot. No one helped out when T.J. split the lane. You put yourself in a position to win, but games are won and lost on little...

That started at the middle of the season last year. We got the best shot from people. The way we played last year, the advantage we had at the beginning of the season is no...

There’s been some thought that this could be the last game.

This game is humbling. When you start to levitate, it will bring you back to earth.

It’s impossible to limit him. He can go get the ball with rebounds and there is just a myriad of ways for him to get possessions and obviously they put the ball in his hands.

The line that Carmelo had is off the charts. I think he probably covered every digit on the sheet, points, rebounds, assists. He played like a superstar.

I think all the credit needs to go to New Jersey tonight. They’re playing well, that’s 14 in a row. They’re a team that if they play like this, they’re going to be very dangerous...

The beginning of the third quarter was atrocious.

He’s had to do a lot of things because we haven’t been making shots from the perimeter.

I don’t want to take anything away from Portland because they did what they had to. But that was an awful performance. We should collectively be embarrassed.

The balance was really good. They shared the basketball and that is what you really have to do against Utah because they play really good team defense. I thought down the stretch our patience was...

I thought our guys played hard and played terrific. They did everything that they could to win the basketball game. The one concern I have is with Gerald and Raymond, is that I don’t want...

It gets down to the free throw line and making free throws. The opportunity was there.

The message is, we had a nice run, now let’s start it again.

The only thing that never wavered was his teammates and the coaching staff,