Detroit has its own agenda, which is to rest its guys, and Washington has the motivation, which is understandable. So is the Orlando-Indiana game. That’s part of it. That’s why you play all 82 (games).

He kind of overpowered us.

[O’Neal] is in charge of that. We are not in charge of that. When [O’Neal] wants to get things done, he will. He got in some foul trouble, he had an off-night. He doesn’t have...

We have to find other ways to use Tyson. The main thing is he has to find ways to stay on the floor by not fouling. We’ve got to get him the ball and …...

I didn’t think either team was especially sharp tonight, to put it mildly. It was anybody’s game for the taking. They turned it up a little bit and we weren’t able to make any big...

We should have won that second game of the season at New Jersey. We missed a free throw and gave up a three-point play basically at the buzzer. It’s a game we felt like we...

It’s baffling as much as we work on end-of-game situations that we just took the ball up and turned it over right there. I don’t understand it.

I thought it was a great effort. Tyson (Chandler) was a big lift. I thought he had his best game of the year. Our game was proactive and most importantly, we got a lot of...

We waited too long to start playing. We kind of sleep-walked through 2-1/2 quarters. Then near the end of the third quarter, we finally started getting aggressive. We started driving the ball, and our defense...

They literally complain about every call all night long. They are having a great year doing it. I’m not sure what that says.

I thought the way that game unfolded made that a very good win. We knew we’d have a battle in the second half. We battled and made a lot of big plays on both ends....

I can’t allow us to be blaming other factors for the way that we play. There’s a very simple thing to do under those situations, and that’s play better. We’ve done that a little bit...

You’ve got to be really skilled with the ball, you’ve got to be sharp with your spacing, you’ve got to use your ball fakes, and that’s something we’re still working on. They made it interesting...

Sometimes when you’re short-handed, guys step up.

I’m going to bring him off the bench. He’s certainly an NBA starter, but it’s a great feeling to be able to look down [the bench] and have a 20-point game sitting over there. He’s...

It’s not like he’s hurting us in the low post as much as he is by when he touches [the ball], it sets off a chain of events that we’ve had hard time dealing with....

In the fourth quarter they turned it up right at the same time we started to turn the ball over. We kind of lost our poise out there and they ran away from us out...

It appears what is happening to us when we finally do decide to really get after it for two or three possessions (is) we don’t have the energy to go get the ball. That’s distressing...

I had 20 or something and guys have gotten into the 20s, so there’s reason to think that at some point somebody is going to do it. But the opponent had an awful lot to...

In the last two years, we’ve played a lot of guys. A lot of teams are shortening up their rotation right now and going eight or nine. We don’t have that kind of team yet.

We had way too many breakdowns. Mental breakdowns and physical breakdowns.

I thought we were very active (defensively) and it won the game for us tonight.

We got it close and they just turned it on, and we didn’t have an answer for it.

It’s a disappointing loss because of the way we played. We didn’t play particularly well in the first-half. Yet we had a two-point lead and they didn’t have Webber. We just came out after halftime...

That kind of team has given us problems. We’re going to have to play much better than we played tonight.

This is a different team than last season. It’s obvious that it is. I mean, we haven’t had the same amount of fight that we had before. Unfortunately, too many times, when things have gotten...

It was just a great comeback. Their defense was active, but we finally got it going. We started to get some stops and then Ben was just huge.

He was on. When he’s on like that, he can shoot over people. His threes were dialed in. It was a phenomenal display.

We had a decent shot to win the game with 18 seconds to go.

We know the odds are still long. We know how difficult it is when you fall behind. We are already thinking about the next game. If we go down 3-1 and go into their building,...

We have had a sort of constant struggle to embrace what being a professional player for the Chicago Bulls means.

We have had several of those so far. We cannot have that. We are not good enough to play like that and win. We have to play inspired ball all the time, or this will...

We’re waiting to award him the game ball when he does (take one).

We were probably one free throw away from winning the game. We weren’t able to make it, and we weren’t able to get (defensive) stops.

The last thing we wanted was to sit out there until 3 in the morning and then fly in.

Apparently not, because I wasn’t even aware of it until an hour and a half or so ago. It’s not 1,200, it’s 200. I know I got to 100 a lot faster than I got...

These guys can go home with a good game under their belts. I think that is important, that we gain a little momentum coming out of the break.

Kirk was outstanding tonight pretty much from beginning to end. Defensively he was as good as he always is and he played with a nice tempo. He didn’t really force anything, ran the offense well,...

There are talented players over there, but from what I read, (McMillan) is still dealing with players showing up late. Those are things that are very difficult to deal with. I’m an outsider, but I...

We’re giving ourselves a chance now, and that’s all I can ask of these guys.

I think he is the most-improved player (in the NBA). I also thought he should have been all-rookie (NBA selection) and things like that. But people look at him as already a pro player. I...

We did what we had to do. We came out and we had a lot of energy.

Our problem in the first half was our transition defense, which has been a problem for us all year. They had 11 of their 24 baskets in transition, and many of those were right at...

They didn’t play like they did in Miami. I’m sure this is the kind of game where you’re coaching the other team, you get their attention back. It’s going to be pretty easy for [Miami...

If one of your good players got hurt and he was only going to miss three or four games, [you’d say], ‘Let’s not put them on the list. Then you’d find out three days later...

We had some great moments and we had some shaky moments. I’m certainly happy to have the win, and we had some guys that played well. Then when it got tight, we had enough big...

He’s got size, … All the teams keep drafting younger and younger players. It’s becoming more and more rare that you get a guy from college who has an NBA body and NBA athleticism. Eddie...

He just looked really tentative; he passed up shots. At the end of the game, in the last two or three minutes, he could have taken [shots] and didn’t want them.

He can pretty much forget almost everything from one second to the next. I don’t know if he did or not because he certainly knew. I hope he didn’t.

But in the second half, they were putting them in and they ended it pretty quickly.