Sometimes he gets so excited. It’s like.

He received criticism from the media, he received criticism from different people, but it wasn’t from anyone in this locker room. It wasn’t from anyone in the coaching staff, because we believed in him and...

It’s big. We want to get home court. Detroit has separated themselves from the rest of the league. We can’t get Detroit, so let’s get the other. It’s not too far-fetched.

There are five or six teams that can make it to the end. Nothing’s changed.

He hasn’t lost a step, let that be known.

It’s a nice stretch against very good teams. So it’s going to be a tough stretch for us.

He’s been playing well for them all year. He’s a guys who’s been experienced for them, he’s played in the NBA Finals, so a first-round playoff game, there’s not so much pressure on him to...

We had plenty of good looks, especially close around the bucket. We missed some easy shots.

They have an unbelievable crowd here. But for us, it was, ‘OK, they hit a few shots, let’s calm down. We felt confident and it worked for us in the end.

You give them credit. They played good defense. Some shots didn’t fall down for us. Fortunately, it’s not the best-of-1.

You might struggle on the road or you might lose a home game or two, but this is new to us, and new to me.

Our offense was not where it should have been, and you have to give them credit. Tonight, we weren’t at the top of our game, and they took advantage of that.

He was unbelievable. He has a long way to go, but it is amazing with J-Kidd and Vince he still finds a way to stand out.

In the fourth quarter, we predominantly play through him. He’s our leading scorer and he always takes the majority of the shots. A lot of people that don’t watch us a lot throughout the year...

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.