The bench, hey, look (it’s) six straight games where they’ve been very, very good.

They’re in a desperate state. They played extremely hard.

They have great size and length inside. Their interior play overall will be a factor. And they have great depth.

Stealing signals. Isn’t that baseball?

We were a little shorthanded, but that’s just part of the NBA. We still put ourselves in a position to win but just couldn’t get it done. You play with the guys you got because...

He’s been as efficient as anyone can be in the NBA. He’s playing at a very high level. It’s the definition of efficiency. It’s unbelievable. And he’s in a great rhythm with it. You look...

I think we ran out of bullets. We couldn’t make shots. We probably got a little bit frustrated.

Guys have been very sharp in practice. They’ve been focused. We hope we continue to get better. What we’ve seen in three days of practice has been encouraging.

The season is like one long train ride and each stop you want to get better. That’s what we’re doing, and the thing is it can’t stop now. We have a lot of games to...

I take 100 percent responsibility. For us to defend that way, it’s on me. I didn’t have our guys prepared. I did a very poor job.

God forbid the guy doesn’t have a game when he doesn’t hit every shot he takes. He’s a special, special guy. He’s turned around this franchise. We have unbelievable trust in him. He’s delivered time...

We’re starting to see what we need to do to win.

Sometimes you catch lightning in a bottle, I guess. I said back then (at 32-28), in terms of the bench, if you want to blame anyone, blame me.

Of course, you want to win the game. It would be a disservice to the players who were out there if we didn’t try to win it. But we’ve earned the right to play this...

Midway through the third quarter, I was working on my math skills. I said to one of the assistants, ‘We’re up what?’ I couldn’t figure out what it was. No one could have expected this....

I know that Game 5 made a lasting impression on me. Vince must have been a high-jump champion somewhere, because that was an amazing play.

Jason Kidd just did a phenomenal job. You have to give Vince a lot of credit. He wanted the challenge and took it.

Our defense has been pretty sharp. We’ve gotten contributions from everyone. We’re doing a good job defensively, having good intent and offensively sharing the ball.

They aren’t all masterpieces but we found a way to win. It’s nice that you can win and shoot 39 percent.

The bottom player is he’s a better player than what he showed in the first half,

They (Minnesota) shot 67 percent in the first half and 55 percent for the game with 40 points in the paint. That’s not really the trademark of how we want to play.

We put ourselves in a huge hole. You have to give Indiana a lot of credit. But when you give them 36 points in a quarter, your margin for error is less.

We’re searching. We’re looking for the right combinations. Guys are still trying to find a comfort level.

You never take great players for granted because all you have to do is not to be around them for a little bit. A lot of the things he does, you can’t put a value...

Cliff had the courage to step up and shoot them. That’s why he’s still at a high level at 39 years old. You can’t be afraid to miss a shot.

You can’t really think about it because it just can change daily. The one thing is we’re playing a lot of them within the last week or so. We have to just worry about ourselves.

Today was just one of those days that you have.

You’d like to reward your fans with a little better performance, but we lost. Fortunately, this was Game 1 of 82.

We just couldn’t put together any stops. They scored on all their crucial possessions and the one they don’t, we get an opportunity for the loose ball and we don’t come up with it.

Vince had numerous paint shots. I think the key is, when they put two on the ball, you just have to move it.

Our guys battled their tails off for 48 minutes. We did a good job of protecting the paint. We were fortunate they missed some shots, but our defensive intent was very good … When we...

The game never comes down to the last shot. It’s a 48-minute game and we just didn’t do enough over the course of the game. We put ourselves in a little bit of a deficit...

The reason why he’s gotten better is because he works on his game every single day. I have a great deal of faith in him and he’s going to be a very good player for...

Vince doesn’t look too good right now. It’s in his chest. You feel like a truck hit you.

Those momentum-changing shots are huge. Vince has done that time and time again for the whole year, and once again, he delivered.

It’s just nice to see we’ve grown. We are getting better.

Unfortunately we couldn’t come up the rebound and you like for players to decide the game, but you have to give Anthony credit for making the two free throws.

We fought hard to get back in the game. We were up two at the half, and then the last six minutes we just couldn’t do it.

You can’t take what Jason does for granted. It’s unreal that he gets a triple-double so many times. You can never take great players for granted. We appreciate all the things he does for us....

It was one of those nights for our whole team.

I think our guys were really focused from the beginning with defense, holding them to 23 percent in the first half and sharing the ball. You have to play at a high level to beat...

We want to keep on going further and getting better. We’re going to have to get better to go to the places we’d like to be.

We’ll start limiting some minutes as we go and potentially hold a guy out of a game, whether it’s against Boston or New York, something like that.

We’re really excited that we’ve had the good fortune to pick up a player of his caliber. He’s always been a very capable low-post scorer with a big body, and he’s a big presence out...

Vince doesn’t look too good right now. So hopefully our doctors have that secret formula.

Instead of kind of being deflated, we pressed on.

I think we’ve shown it’s possible. That’s the bar. You don’t lower it, you raise it.

It was one of those nights. Everyone had turnovers. It wasn’t a pretty performance. We couldn’t get anything done on the offensive end.

You can never say enough about his will.

We are not proud of what happened. I think when you look at it, we had four games in five nights, and at this point of the year, we knew it was going to be...