It’s going to be a battle from here on out. I think we have seven or eight games left. We have to figure it out and get a win streak going.

T.J.’s smaller than him, so he tried to take advantage of that.

I’ve thought of guys, whether they were here last year or not, and doing something special for them.

Personally, I think it should have been nothing. At the end of the game, I think that (call) should be let go.

We have to buckle down and play for our lives.

It’s the whole thing. It’s not flowing right now.

You want to go out there and lead your team to victory, and that’s what it’s all about, whether it be assists or making plays for others or scoring, rebounding.

We had to get this win tonight. We played with a sense of urgency.

We came into practice (Tuesday) very encouraged about the win. We didn’t even talk about how we finished the game. We stayed positive.

We can beat anybody. It’s just a matter of how we’re going to play that night. We’ve got to come in with the confidence we can beat this team. We’ve shown that we have the...

He encouraged me to keep my head up and keep playing.

We just missed shots, started off flat for the first five or six minutes of the fourth quarter. You can’t do that. You’ve got to stay on these guys_they’re a sleeping giant.

We didn’t make shots at the end of the game when we really needed it. We played extremely well for 36 minutes of the game, but at the end of the game they really took...

That’s a tough loss for us right now. We didn’t execute like we should have. They challenged us and we missed shots.

We’ve made a living on coming back on teams this season, so I’m thinking, ‘Here we go again.

I don’t know yet (how to thank everyone). I’ll find a way. I don’t know yet. They were good to me. I never forget that stuff. I’ll talk to them, that I appreciate them.

(Villanueva) played well, (but) anybody can get hot in this league. But we got the win and I’m proud of the way we finished today.

I know. I know, and that’s not good at all. Sometimes it seems like we play with more fire on the road than we do at home. We have to figure it out at home...

I’m just trying to encourage everybody. Mike needs your help. I need your guys’ help. I don’t want it to be a case where you guys just sit around watching me trying to do everything....

We’re starting off slow (in the fourth quarter). The first couple minutes we just floundered away. It’s happened to us the last few nights. We cannot afford to do that.

We learned from Friday. We refused to let that happen tonight.

That’s been the one concern for our team – start out better, start out fast.

Our whole identity is to push the basketball, and that’s what he does best. Once he gets in the open court, his creativity takes over, and we’re better off by doing that.

It was just one of those things I wanted to get checked out. I could have gone back in the game, but there was no reason to.

That’s the frustrating thing. We’ve played them tough every game and just come up short. I think it’s their championship experience and getting tougher down the stretch that hurts us.

It was (a key sequence). I had a good look; I missed it.

Not to put down last year’s team, … but we got better.

We’ve been hit by the injury bug quite often this year, and it’s kind of slowed us down a little bit. We still have a good record (15-11). . . We just have to persevere...

The major thing about coming back was, ‘Are we going to win?’

We had no execution in the fourth and that really hurt us. That’s a championship team, and they played like it.

I was just playing in the flow. I didn’t do anything extra. I was trying not to force anything.

I just wanted the ball in my hands at the end of the game and wanted to make a play — either to myself or somebody else. I just made a move and thankfully, it...

We get up for the good teams.

We struggled in Game 1, and shot a little bit better in Game 2, but not enough. We need to make shots with this team. That’s what we do best.

It’s been positive. It’s been all positive. Yesterday was a great day at practice. Tonight we came out aggressive, and if we can continue to keep playing like this, hopefully we can make a run...

I knew it was going to happen. They did a great job having two or three guys around me all night and it was very difficult to get my shot off. They really were just...

Mo is big, Charlie (Bell) is big and Joe is big. To have all three of them healthy at the same time, with the core group we have, is going to take a lot of...