This would really cap off the trip to come back home and win. It’s almost like a six-game trip.

Avery is the heartbeat of our team. He knows what we need. He pushes the right buttons.

We’ve been here a long time. We seem to tighten things up on the road. We’ve been experiencing a little bit of a lull. But we played good basketball for a lot longer stretch than...

They did a good job on him early, but as the game went on we found ways to get him some shots. Josh Howard kept us afloat and then Dirk was huge in the second...

He’s going to bruise some egos and brush some people the wrong way. He has everywhere he’s been.

He’s the best center in the NBA on one end now. The team has to focus on him more than any center in the NBA, even Shaq.

Avery called a timeout and drew up some things for us to attack the zone. We did it a couple of times, got some good looks, and Dirk hit some big 3s.

We just focused on coming out in the second half and not letting up. We wanted to try extend our lead as opposed to just exchanging baskets.

Defense is great, but if you don’t put some points on the board, you’re not going to win games.

Our identity as an offensive team is set. As a defensive team, we’re still a question mark to the masses. But we know we’re capable of winning that way.

It only takes five to play, but obviously we want to get everybody back healthy and ready for the stretch run and for the playoffs. We don’t want to take our chances with guys coming...

Obviously, I’ve hit a quite a few shots in this league.

I’m really proud of the guys for taking time out to play in this game because it’s for a really good cause. I’m just really happy how it went and hope the game continues to...

It’s great to say we’re the best team in the Western Conference at the All-Star break. What we’d really like to say is we’re the best team in the Western Conference at the end of...

We didn’t want to let down after last night. We got them on their heels early and kept it up.

We were totally knocked on our heels.

They got off to a pretty good start, and we were pretty much sleepwalking through the first half. Really the key was our rebounding and getting them to work on the offensive end. We started...

I felt good. It was in good rhythm. I think I still had a nice breathing to it. I never felt winded, didn’t feel fatigued.

Last year, we had a letdown. We didn’t want to work as hard as we did this season, then give it away. Now hopefully we can do what we did on the road last year.

It was some good defense and some good fortune. We’ll take them both.

Have I come out of the game making a defensive mistake? Yeah. He doesn’t really discriminate. Everybody is held accountable … He seldom pulls a guy for an offensive mistake, taking a bad shot, anything...

I’m just thankful the time has come for me to be out there.

The only thing we need to be working on right now is getting stronger and improving our seeding for the playoffs.

The kid was very enthusiastic and gave us a lot of energy. It was good to see some of these young kids play with all the injuries we’ve been having.

Since he signed a letter of intent, why not? He can’t help that he’s so good he just had to skip over and go to the NBA. He was on the right track.

I met some good people in Washington. Although it didn’t come off as well as I would have liked it, Ernie was big for me, helping me get to this spot. We had conversations, and...

The game ball goes to those guys. If they keep playing like that … all I can do is keep shaking my head.

We have yet to play our best basketball. That?s a good sign to be up 2-0 and not have hit on all cylinders yet.

We don’t worry about what San Antonio is doing. We know we’re a playoff team and we’ll see how things fall.

We can’t be satisfied with just tying up the series with this win. We’re going to probably see this team somewhere down the road in the playoffs.

It’s a game within the game. We don’t want to be close and all of the sudden, play as well as we did last year and end up with the No. 4 seed. So why...

I like playing with Damp. People make a lot about him being out of the starting lineup and coming off the bench, but I think he feels comfortable playing with me because he gets a...

You have to teach him the Bill Russell rule and tap it to yourself so we can get on the break.

I think [this weekend] went great,

It says we need to play better early. Everybody’s aware that we need to do some things not to put ourselves in that kind of position. But they [wins like this] have got to be...

We don’t have to depend on Dirk in every game. We have guys on this team who can do a lot of things.

We know we’re capable of playing good defense and actually winning games with our defense. I think Game 1 was indicative of that and (in) Game 2, we were able to get in a good...

He’s tough and he had it going tonight. We just tried to make the other guys not beat us. As long as you can keep the other guys down, you should be all right.

Our veteran guys have to step up. Our younger guys, we can’t expect them to be there yet. As talented and as good as they are, we can’t expect them to create their energy and...

I was able to make sure we got the last shot and I rose up and hit it. I had a couple before that I thought were going down, but I’m glad I got the...

This is starting to become who we are. We feel that we are going to win these games and have the wherewithal to sustain anything any team throws at us.

All of these games are important. We have to take each one individually and go out and give our best effort.

We’re still a great team in a great position. We still have a lot that we want to prove once the playoffs get here, no matter what seed we are or who we’re playing. But...

We’re playing the world champions and we’re trying to get something they have. If anybody tries to downplay it, that’s all you’re doing trying to downplay it because this is a statement game.

Everyone responded. We knew it was just a bad first half.

Now we’re the ones waiting.

Yeah, you know what I’m saying: Keep it coming, keep it coming. It’s all good.

I like starting the game, getting into a flow early. It’s like sitting on pins and needles waiting to get into the game off the bench. I’ve done it for a year and half. It...

He’s played great and he’s been steady for us all season and this past month, he’s just been on a tear.

In the second half, we didn’t play well offensively and couldn’t get into a good posture defensively either. They got their confidence and we started pressing a bit. They escalated and we went on a...