I was the one who was helping him out. But I guess he heard from somebody that I told Coach not to play him in Game 3. It wasn’t like that.

It got weird toward the end on this one, but it was our third win in a row.

He (Davis) bailed me out a little bit. Because then I’d have had to try and create and finish over a big man, which I probably would have done.

I’m at a point in my career where no one can stop me. It’s going to take more than one guy to stop me. They better have a back line.

We’re not in yet. We are still fighting to get in, every night.

We know we played like some trash out there. And now we know we need to play a lot better than we did. We need to put the pressure on them. I think we just...

We have five winnable games. They’re not going to be easy. We’ve got to go out there and play. January will tell what we’re about, what we’re made of. We just need to do some...

First time on television, we won. It was a special moment for us.

We’re stunned, too. We did a great job for a team that doesn’t give up. We knew it was going to be a hard-fought game. We just tried to keep the pressure on. We were...

I just have a different way of approaching things. I’m a little offbeat.

Four, five, six, seven seed, who knows who’s going to play each other? It doesn’t matter who we play, we’re not worried about that right now. We’re just trying to come together as a group....

What we wanted to do was get that losing streak snapped. We’ve got a mission: we’re trying to make the big dance. It’s going to be hard because (it seems) we’re one game away from...

Me and Antawn [Jamison] cannot go 7 for 40 or whatever it was [actually it was 9 for 34] and not expect an ‘L,’

I told him last night, it is hard for people not to read this and look at you like the bad guy because your first year happened, second year, third year and now this year...

Ricky got me with a reach in.

The last time he stuck me, I scored 41 points when he was [with the Wizards] and I was with the Warriors, … You print that. He’s going to laugh about that one because I...

They ran one play all night and we never adjust to it – pick and roll, AI to Webber.

I went through that play a couple of times in my head, what I should’ve done. You always do that. But it’s going to be another game, and hopefully it doesn’t go down to the...

It’s about growing up and that’s one of the areas where I have to grow up in. I worked hard this summer on all of my abilities and that’s one of them. I’m going to...

Are the referees going to treat him like Michael Jordan in his first playoff or like Michael Jordan after six championships? We don’t know.

He’s going to be an All-Star quickly. He’s my rookie of the year.

We’re rolling. We’re feeling pretty good.

I think that the biggest difference is that we played harder, for whatever reason.

Every win counts. This game was as important as the next game and the next game all the way for the rest of the season. Every game and every win is very important to us...

Actually, that wasn’t the plan going in. Brendan just decided he was going to give a hard foul to let him know he was there. For some reason, that just threw him off a little...

We are enjoying playing together again. We haven’t had this feeling since the first six games of the season where we are actually going out there happy to play.

When the game’s important you don’t want to lose. You have to win so you do whatever it takes to win.

We have veteran guys, guys who have been through the battles and know what it takes to pull out close games like this, … It’s not like we’re going to panic when we get in...

I’m a taper. I’ll usually watch how I can beat my defender, what my defender is lacking and what is he scared of.

I told everybody at the All-Star break: Eastern Conference, I’m coming for you. I’m the Eastern Conference assassin right now; it’s a tour from city to city.

We made it easy for everybody tonight.

I know that everyone has been watching and they feel bad for all these people so I was hoping that by seeing a face, someone they recognize, doing something to help, it will encourage everyone...

I watched the replay five times and it wasn’t a foul. It was a foul on him. I didn’t even get the charge. He was falling before I even got there. When a rookie ref...

We have to take advantage of the opportunity we have here. We’re going to be at home for a while. This is where we can make our climb in that Eastern Conference.

We used to have our words down there, a lot of trash talking, … It should be fun to see what he recalls from last year because I do have a different game from last...

We’re battling. It’s going to be like this the rest of the way. It’s going to be hard to tell whose 4,5,6, or 7 — you just have to keep going.

Our focus is just like tonight. We know they are going to be resting their guys, but we can’t lay down for that because we need that win. This is our destiny and we have...

It’s good for us to seen Brendan working so hard. Most big men, they stop working at a certain point. This is his fifth year and he’s gotten better each year. He was in the...

We have more interchangeable parts than we did last year. We just have to get all of these interchangeable parts playing together and cooperating with each other. I’ve been out for a while. Caron missed...

He saved it just for us. It’s like an unspoken rivalry we’re having right now. And they’re getting the best of us.

Shocked? Everyone was shocked. You were shocked. I was shocked. He was shocked that it went in. It’s hard to win or lose a game with 0.5 seconds left, but obviously it happened.

We’ve been on the road, so when you come back it’s hard to get that home rhythm that you are used to. It kicked in during the second half.

This (six-game) road trip is more important than anything. We have to come out strong. If we can come out strong, we will finish strong.

We destroyed ourselves in Game 1. So we decided to come out and play better basketball.

We’re playing together. We’re sharing the ball. We’re trusting each other on defense and on offense.

They got a more experienced team than they did last year. He’s in his third year now, the players he’s got around him is in their third, the young ones. So they got older pieces...

We’ve been missing that kind of toughness from our lineup. When you are missing one of your enforcers, his sweet jumper and his tough defense, it hurts us. Everybody is glad to have him back.

I’m still learning. A leader is that person who knows everything, who’s been experienced. I don’t know if I’m that experienced to teach anybody yet. I’m still taking lessons from somebody like Chucky [Atkins], somebody...

Coach Jordan isn’t going to risk a player getting hurt chasing a record.

That pain from the Celtics is still in my blood. When they said they’d pick me with the 10th or 11th pick, they got my hopes all high. I usually hold a grudge for that.