We gave them everything they needed to get their game going and win the ballgame. They came up and put the pressure on us, and we turned the ball over a little bit, and then...

I thought we executed our offense pretty well. We’re still alive and that’s the important thing. The games mean something … You just keep fighting and playing until the season is over and see what...

They ran us off the floor.

We hang or heads over missed shots just so much it is like we are grade school again. You can’t let those things take you out of the game.

Milt got us in the open floor, they found him [with outlet passes] and he made some good decisions.

[And the schedule still includes the scenarios Sloan believes are most important: A couple of back-to-backs, so players get used to playing and traveling on the same day, and a stretch of three games in...

He just needs to shoot the ball when he’s open. When he’s done that, he’s fine. When he hesitates a little bit on it, he has a little bit of a problem.

Maybe we should have been watching them.

I just thought it was an opportune time to do that because maybe he had something in his head, or something was going on that I wasn’t aware of.

I said before the season that I think we should be a playoff team. I don’t think a lot of people felt that way outside of our organization. We aren’t [deep] enough to have people...

People think it’s pretty easy, but it’s pretty difficult. A year ago, this team just kept going farther and farther down. They didn’t step up and try to make a change. We were 11-21, I...

He’s seems to be very, very happy about coming back and letting me get on [him] again.

He is a tough assignment for anybody. He’s a terrific player. He can put the ball on the floor. And they’ve got the right complement for him: They’ve got guys that can make 3-point shots.

Greg Ostertag had a tremendous finish for us. He was able to block up the middle and keep them from getting on top of the basket.

Somebody should have knocked the hell out of him and got him off the floor. First of all, if you’re a player, you should never let him get that far to begin with. You never...

We’re feeling a little bit sorry for ourselves,

He’s probably saying, ‘Why haven’t I played all year? I was asking the same thing.

He’s (Palacio) terrific, he was terrific down the stretch. He made his free throws; he took the ball to the basket and just played extremely well. He seemed to be very confident playing in that...

As soon as you whip yourself but shaking your head and feeling sorry for yourself, you’re a whipped pup. I’m sorry, but that’s the way it is. Guys on the other team love seeing that....

He kept us under control, and didn’t throw the ball away. He had one turnover . . . That’s what we need, so we can get into an offense.

We didn’t really seem to have any life.

It’s tough on Jeff. He’s trying to win and doing everything he can. You wonder what’s going to happen to you next.

This is the way we’ve always wanted to play. We got our hands on the ball and got rebounds tonight.

We were in the ball game. I thought our guys played pretty hard. We got waxed pretty hard last night (a 110-85 lost to Cleveland), but I thought our guys played pretty hard tonight, but...

We were totally intimidated by the guy to start with because he had such free roam. We never got a hand in his face. He’s a terrific player.

That is one of those most disappointing games that I’ve been involved in. And for a game with this much significance.

Andrei was terrific in helping our people. His seven blocked shots were lifesaving coming down the stretch. Their momentum picked up there at the end and we looked a little tired, but he kept us...

Guys are not getting enough shots. Shoot every time they touch it. Instead of executing the play, they break every play down. It’s pretty hard to have any kind of team concept with that.

I didn’t know (which team) was still trying to make the playoffs. They knocked us around. They put us on the floor when we went in (the paint). They were terrific defensively. They played as...

That will figure itself out at the end of the year.

Andre made the big block. He looked like he was going to foul the guy but he kept stretching out his arms. He blocked the shot and came away with the ball.

We just couldn’t do anything with them in overtime. I can understand guys missing shots, but I don’t understand not being able to block them off the boards and give them second shots while we’re...

After we got beat by 30 points over there I didn’t know what we would do tonight. I thought our guys came out strong, they ran hard and went to the basket a little harder...

Well, we’re still alive and that’s the important thing, the games mean something. It’s not like you just throw it out there and you don’t care whether you win or lose.

When we did go inside, it was kind of like an adventure in there with the way we shot the ball a few times to see if we could get it up on the glass....

He’s a very confident guy, but I probably got into his confidence level a little bit. The important thing to me was he fought threw that little spell we had and his confidence grew and...

I thought he (Palacio) played pretty well. He played defense well, which is tough no matter which of those guys you put him on. The important thing is we did a good job of keeping...

This team, they’ve shown the willingness to try to fight back and stay in there and compete even though we’ve been short-handed.

In the second half, they played harder and caused us to take tougher shots. We shouldn’t have been worn down in the third quarter when they put pressure on us. You have to give them...

He was the one that really wanted to be traded. I mean I wasn’t looking to trade the guy. But if a guy wants to get out and is probably not happy here, what else...

I think we do believe in the offense now. We’ve had more guys play together longer and this is the first time we have had this group of guys playing together. We played with a...

It’s a matter of how he approaches the game every day. You make a mistake throwing the ball away, is that going to affect you next time? The biggest thing is how you fight back.

We gave (Sacramento) everything they needed to get their game going and win the ball game. I took the timeout with four minutes left in the fourth because I felt like the guys that were...

Andrei played awfully well. He’s been dedicated to doing things: helping and encouraging his teammates.

We didn’t have much for them. It looked like we didn’t belong.

They’re a good team. They sort of destroy your will to want to play. But we did fight back and I think that’s tremendous on our part.

It went crazy — throwing the ball away, turning the basketball over, not playing like we’re supposed to play. You can’t play a streak game like that against a team that knows how to play...

It gives him a tremendous advantage, because good players have the ability to do different things. Teams can scout you, but that scouting report doesn’t do you much good if you tend to play (defense)...

I never took him out the second half. Usually I take him out, but he was so alive tonight that I didn’t take him out at all.

They executed, they got on top of the basket. If you made a mistake defensively, they took care of it. They made us turn the ball over if we messed up our spacing on the...