I like the way we had 33 assists. That blew it open because they didn’t know who to guard. It opened up for everybody else.

We’re going home now and hopefully that will help. It’s a different environment. This (The Palace) is a tough place to play. Hopefully we can get home and we will be able to ante-up for...

We want to be better than where we are. The fifth spot is what our goal is right now but it is tight. It is a matter of us winning games down the stretch. Maybe...

I never really got into a position to do anything. They always had an extra body around if I ever did get past Rip (Hamilton), which was hard to do in itself. They just surrounded...

It was a great block and probably the play of the game.

We’re going to try to put a bigger guy on him and have T.J. chase around Rip (Richard Hamilton) a little bit more.

They just kept hitting shots. It was one of those nights where they kept hitting shots.

The key is to contain everybody else around him. Then, you have a chance to win.

I tell you what, we need to be in more close games. It’s our goal and we need to continue to show teams that we can close out games and we did it tonight.

I’m so impressed with how Terry runs practice and how the guys are responding. We just have to stay quiet, stay humble and win games. Just go play. We have a very unselfish team.

It’s a hard loss for us to take, man. Give them credit. Arroyo made a big play at the end of the game. We kept fighting back, but couldn’t get nothing down the stretch in...

You can’t take it away from us. I still have my ring, I still have my trophies. The fans in Columbus won’t ever forget. We, as players, won’t forget.

Our destiny is in our hands a little bit. We control what we do.

It was great tonight. Toronto tried to take the ball out of my hands early tonight and we moved the ball and made them pay.

Washington needed this game and we needed it as well. Fortunately we got the win. We control our destiny. Hopefully we can continue this in the next four games.

Those signs are the real deal. They’re our standard and what we strive for in every game.

Grabbing, holding, crowding, everything. So their focus is on me. It’s no secret.

He was our anchor and played the best game I’ve seen him play in three years here. If we can get that type of performance every night, we’ll be in great shape.

Wow, I didn’t know we were up that much. I knew we were up a lot. It’s frustrating to lose this game, especially a game we had to have. Washington lost tonight so we could...

Starting out fast was key. That was big. We really didn’t let them have a run throughout the game. Tonight felt really good. It showed what can happen when we start out fast.

That’s disappointing. I don’t know if we weren’t aggressive enough or if it was their defense.

We’ve kind of fell off in the fourth quarter of the last three games, so it felt good to get a lead and hang on to it.

It’s my heart’s desire,

I needed some divine intervention.

It’s totally not fair, at all, what happened.

It speaks a lot about our team, because we’ve been up and down all year long.

We need to put teams away when we have the chance, and that was the mind-set coming out of the half.

Fifty-one? Are you serious? That’s outrageous. Wow. That’s a lot of free throws.

Obviously our talent pool has picked up from a year ago. We got more talent this year. Nothing against last year’s team but ya know certain guys came to the team and now we got...

It’s a little discouraging, but he’s a fighter. He’ll play.

You don’t want to get used to losing. We’re still in the hunt. We needed a win real bad. We stopped the bleeding.

To average 30 against Detroit, that’s a slap in their face. They’re not going to take that.

Whenever I got the ball, I had two or three guys around me. They were really concentrating on me, to shut me down.

I’m not worried about the competition out there. I wish the best for everybody. Obviously, there are a lot of guards out there. We’ll see what happens. I feel like I’m one of the ones...

That was the game plan – to foul Garnett. We just didn’t do it.

Oh, yeah, naturally it’s going to be disappointing,

It’s a serious time, and you’ve got to focus. But be loose and have fun. You’re not going to play well when you’re tight and the pressure’s on.

We needed a win bad. But we can’t continue to play like this. . . . This has been four games in a row now. But I’m going to be positive. It was a good...

It speaks a lot about our team. We’ve been up and down all year long, and to still be in a position to be fifth, the gods are with us.

It was my best game ever, and in a loss. I just tried my best and played, and we fell short against a great, great team.

I think you have to. You have to approach it with a sense of urgency, more than ever. This is the biggest game of our season, so we have to come really enthusiastic and pick...

We knew that we had to get out and run tonight. But I don’t know of any flaws that we had in our offensive game. Everyone got hot tonight.

We made adjustments to try to get me open in better positions.

We have to win this game. It’s win or go home. They’re going to look to wipe us out in that game and we’ve got to play at a level that we haven’t played at...

In the first half, it seemed like I couldn’t make one (basket). But I just kept staying aggressive.

We did a good job (in the second half). This is a game we had to have.

We’ll see what happens. Hopefully we can get something worked out.

We were re-evaluating ourselves, that’s all. It was a disappointing loss. We beat this team about a month and a half ago, two months ago. … We played them fairly well through the first half...

We played together two years ago. He’s going to be a type of guy we’re going to count on to be a presence down low. He can score, he can rebound, and he will help...

[Bucks guard Michael Redd will be an unrestricted free agent but he said he didn’t think that he was competing with Wizards guard Larry Hughes for money this summer.] I’m not worried about the competition...