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

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

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.

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

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.

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...

Never would I question the officials’ judgment, but there didn’t seem to be a great deal of contact on that play. There was no intentional foul. I guess there was a whole lot more contact...

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...

Jason makes this whole thing work. You take him out of the equation, it’s a totally different view. He’s an unbelievable leader who imposes his will on the game.

We had 10 straight empty possessions. We missed a ton of open shots, and that puts a ton of pressure on the defense. It was a combination of their No. 1 scoring defense and us...

It was a combination of turnovers and missed opportunities. We had shots right by the rim that didn’t go in. We had some defensive mistakes with our rotations, and the turnovers in the first half...

He felt like he was choking up a little bit.

We’ve always had a hard time defending him because he’s a skill guy — not only as a low-post scorer, but he’s a good passer and he shoots it very well from 15-17 feet. And...

It’s like a playoff series. The team that is coming off a loss in a back-to-back situation almost has an advantage. But you still have to go out and do it. I thought our guys...

We are still playing for seeding and the division and then you are fighting for home-court advantage. It is still not out of the realm of possibility that you can continue to climb up. There...

We have a lot of work to do to get better. We understand we have to get back to playing at a high level if we want to put ourselves in a position we think...

People who follow us every day know how special Vince is. God forbid he has a game where he doesn’t make every shot he takes. He delivers time and time again. He’s a special player.

Teams are going to make runs. We knew they were going to make a run. Momentum shots are huge. Vince has done that time and time again for us.

This is obviously very much an isolated incident. This is nothing like the brawl in Detroit.

Hopefully this can be a stepping stone. One win does not erase what we have or have not accomplished. Hopefully it can be a reference point for us to continue to build on.

There is nothing that the league can do that can stop Allen Iverson. You just try to make it as tough as possible on him and focus on the other guys and see if you...

This is another win on the road against a high-quality opponent.

I don’t know if there’s a right or wrong answer.

It’s important we continue to practice good habits regardless of what the result is because as we go on, we’ll wean minutes down for some guys. But it’s still important we’re doing what Nets basketball...

I think the organization’s done a great job of trying to put together a first-class performance, … We have to take care of our part.

There are no excuses. We’ve got enough players on our team to play better than that.