Sometimes there’s just no explanation.

I think he started at center in [two] NBA Finals. In those Finals he was going against Shaquille O’Neal and Tim Duncan, at the peaks of their games.

I haven’t run like that in a while. I was a little tired. I had to come out.

I think they have come down a little bit to Earth after their fast start. It is extremely tough to live up to that hype. Everybody was talking about 70 (victories) after 35 games. I...

Hey, we’ve been playing the same way the whole year and we’ve been successful. I believe in my teammates. I believe in my coaching staff. We’ve been playing one way, all year long.

We understand that this next game is going to be the hardest one of the series.

Some nights, things just click. It’s a combination of good defense. But they also had some good looks. They had some shots that they normally hit. You combine that with good defense and it was...

It’s always your move next. What are you going to do to make an adjustment to our counter? What are you going to do now that we have played this type of lineup? It’s all...

If in the next couple of weeks he has to take time [off], and you can still get him back before the playoffs, then that’s what you want to do. If he can get through...

My situation was pretty easy. My high school is a Nike school; I went the University of Arizona. It’s not like it was bad choice, or I went there just because it was a Nike...

We put ourselves in that position. We didn’t do a good job early.

We’ve spoiled people early. We could win the rest of our games, but we’re going to be judged by how we play in the playoffs. This is good. This is great. But we understand that’s...

You can do that because you won the first game. Just wait until after Game 2.

He took control. He did what he wanted, on the pick-and-roll, he got to wherever he wanted, he found open guys, he got to the basket. He got to the free throw line. I think...

They played the way we [had]. We normally get down, then you fight to the end and you don’t seem to have enough.

We would drive and kick it to guys with wide-open looks but couldn’t get anything to fall. For the most part we played good defense, but you have to be near perfect on the defensive...

Maybe the 1 o’clock start helped us. Dirk and those guys didn’t wake up until the second half.

I believe we’re going to be OK. Fortunately, it’s not the best-of-1. This isn’t the NCAA Tournament. You have a few more games to play before it’s over with. So we just have to do...

I had been on ice for 3 ‘, quarters. I was watching Vince go to work, he’s unbelievable. Then coach put the ball in my hands and I tried to be aggressive.

Our offense failed us. A lot of the decision-making.