The Nets, since I’ve been here, are going to be judged by how you play in the playoffs. You win a lot of games in the regular season, we’re still going to be judged by...

If we win, no matter what, (at least) it’s coming back to Jersey. If they win, they have a chance to finish it off (in Indianapolis) and their crowd and everything is going to be...

You come to expect it (playing 40 minutes).

We are a better team than this. We just had a couple of stretches where we are struggling, every team goes through that.

When your defense falls, sometimes your offense can be part of the problem. We were taking some questionable shots that were leading to easy transition baskets on their end.

Nobody gets hurt. And play hard.

J-Kidd is grabbing me, pulling me and I am telling him to calm down.

If I say no, he’s a liar. If I say yeah.

I was a defensive specialist … I had to guard whoever Gilbert was supposed to be guarding, too. I’m telling you, Gilbert did not play defense.

We’re not sitting up here, jumping up and down like we won a championship. When things are going well, you can’t act like you’re surprised they are.

I really didn’t even realize it was that crazy.

It felt good. I felt like I had a chance.

It was just like the good old days. When I’m out there running, then that’s when I’m playing my best. It felt so good out there. We showed that we still have the ability to...

It was a frustrating first half of the season because we can play a lot better. We’ve had some inconsistencies.

We played against one of the top two or three teams in the league. We beat some very, very good teams during the streak. Now we have to try and continue our home dominance.

If you look at a lot of my shots, most of them were assisted by my teammates. It was just a matter of me getting open and them feeding me the ball.

We’re in the playoffs? Man, that’s cool.

I wouldn’t say we’ve been on our heels, but we haven’t had things go our way.

He’s the epitome of a professional. He brings a lot of confidence out on the floor, even if he hasn’t played for awhile. It’s reassuring knowing you have someone like that on the team.

He came up with the idea to go small. Bosh posts up, but he likes to shoot jumpers, and we were able to take that away from him. You need to crowd and use your...

We’ve really struggled in the second quarter the last couple games. (Tonight) we did OK in the first quarter, but then their bench comes in and we struggle. I’m not sure why, but we have...

He’s extremely healthy. He’s the best player in the history of this franchise. Everything that we’ve accomplished starts with him. We need him to be the dominant point guard that he always has been over...

I remember I missed free throws. You don’t go up there thinking about it. You go up there realizing that you have been working all year long, all summer long, all career long to knock...

I still have a lot of respect for him.

I got it going in the second half. I just tried to keep playing through my teammates. They found me on some good looks. Honestly, our whole team had it going in the second half.

Jermaine O’Neal really was their main guy for them, and then you try and collapse on him and [Johnson] gets hot out there. A.J. has never done that before. He had a great game. To...

You try to make it difficult, but he’s going to shoot more than anybody else in the league. You try to defend him so he doesn’t go for 50 or more. If he gets 40,...

Just because he had an off night when all eyes were on our team doesn’t mean that we have to question what we do and what we did to get here.

It would have made things a lot easier on Vince (Carter).

In order to play well in the playoffs you have to position yourself in the regular season. That’s where the regular season becomes important.

I do believe there are other teams in this conference that are very good. A shot here, a shot there, you never know what’s going to happen.

I was just trying to joke and be myself. Tom is always crazy and I like to joke around. That’s one of the good things about this school. You were able to be your own...

Their backcourt definitely got better. But we try not to focus in too much on what the other team has.

It’s not so much the type of shot he hit, but the importance of the shot.

The preseason served its purpose, … I know guys like to complain about the preseason games, but they would really complain if we didn’t have them.

It is better. It is more a stiff back, it is not spasms anymore.

They’re not trying to miss shots.

There is no doubt about it, both teams pride themselves on defense. It’s not going to be a high-scoring game. It’s going to be that type of series.

I let us down in a small way. I was disappointed that we lost, that I got thrown out, but I wasn’t out here trying to prove anything.

He might not be happy, but he’d have to go there and play. I guess it would be like playing for Charlotte or playing for Toronto.

It was a good win. We struggled a little bit when we got the lead. We were able to withstand their run and we were okay.

In the first half, especially the second quarter, we were not playing D the way we needed to.

We did a good job early on Dirk. It was just a matter of trying to contain him.

We won the division (this way). You lose a game and have a bad shooting night and people question what you were doing. This is a guy who’s an All-Star and has done so many...

It felt really good after (Wednesday’s) practice. Then I tried to do more stuff Thursday when we were still in San Antonio and it went backwards a little bit. . . . It was my...

I tried to get my career high. J-Kidd, he was more going for NBA history. I’m going for personal history. NBA history is another thing.

Bosh posts up, but he likes to shoot jumpers, and we were able to take that away from him. You need to crowd and use your quickness on him.

He was unreal tonight — inside and out. His confidence just grew and grew as the game wore on and it was just great to see.

Certain teams set your goals at a certain level. For this team, if someone would have told you at the beginning of the year that we were going to make the playoffs, it probably wouldn’t...

Vince has hit some of the craziest shots in the history of this league. But the importance of that shot is what I am most proud of for him.