We got back in the game and then short-circuited a little bit with some offensive fouls. We battled them all the way to the end. We just couldn’t make the plays.

I’m not too worried about (Deng). I don’t get caught in injuries. Injuries are injuries ? they happen. It’s part of this (game). I can’t be distracted, because I’ve got other guys to consider. I...

People think it’s easy getting the ball to somebody, but it’s not always that easy.

I made it very clear to him what my view was. We have more plays in our offense (for Ben) than any team has in their offense for any player in the league.

We kind of lost our poise out there and they ran away from us. In a matter of minutes, the game was gone.

What we are seeing is we have 1-1/2 guys who are not doing what they’re supposed to do on a certain possession.

I thought overall we played better tonight. We have a lot of energy. We did a better than average job of following the game plan. We could have had the game in regulation. We just...

A little bit over 4 percent. But knowing the guys like I know ’em, it would be shocking to me if they didn’t believe in themselves.

We turned Chuck into an All-Star tonight.

[Gordon] knows what he has to do. He’s got to get back into the game during those periods, and he’s got to score for us.

Our defense kept us in the game. It was reminiscent of the way we won so many games last year. There are always points in the game when you struggle a little offensively. You hope...

They literally complain about every call the whole game. That’s their style. That’s what they do. They’re having a great year doing it.

(Friday) We could tell right from the beginning, we weren’t all there. Tonight, we could tell we were all there. We got really active. We put pressure on them. We were really in tune with...

I thought what we did particularly well tonight was that when calls did not go our way we did not go into one of our tremendously long droughts. We did not hang our heads and...

We just have to watch him — that’s why he’s taking days off of practice — and make sure he’s not overdoing it. But if he’s able to play, we’ll play him and worry about...

They earned the right to play however they wanted to play, based on what’s best for their franchise. We had to do what was best for us. We’re glad we’re in.

Just to run down and double-team Shaq all over the place, it normally doesn’t pay off.

We did what we had to do. We were able to get off to a better start. Our guys were confident and relaxed, yet focused from the start. We had good performances across the board.

Typical dad stuff, … Spending time with my two boys, going to their little league games. And following the NBA, like always.

I thought we played hard tonight. We kind of had a pop to our step most of the game. We made too many mistakes and missed too many shots.

We know what we’re facing now. We’re going down there, and it’s going to be some sort of onslaught early in the game. We’ll do our best to try and weather it.

Well, I normally err on the side of telling the truth, so I’m going to tell it. I’m really embarrassed by what happened out there. I thought we came out in the second half, we...

We are still trying to figure out how to fully utilize him. He is definitely a multidimensional player.

I don’t know how satisfied you can be when we still have a losing record. We feel like we’re definitely playing better. The reality is we’re about to find out. Our toughest West Coast trip...

We were able to pick up a full game on the team right in front of us. I think it is important that the guys go home with a good game under their belt. Maybe...

The guys played much better in the second half. In the first half, we just didn’t show up. We came back. The problem is coming ready to the building. We haven’t done that enough this...

We didn’t look right. Right from the jump ball we weren’t aggressive defensively. Tonight we were a step slow and they made us pay for it.

I’d like to think the players are better. Yeah.

We pretty much got dominated from beginning to end. Even when it was close, it wasn’t close.

The way they’ve closed the season speaks to what kind of group this is. We’ve had many opportunities to let the games go by, win a couple, lose a couple, and go on vacation (after...

We made it interesting again at the end but pretty much got dominated again from beginning to end.

They obviously still have the advantage. They have two games left in their building.

It was kind of a typical exhibition game. We had a couple of guys who had trouble relaxing. I thought we had some really questionable shot selection and we struggled stopping them early in the...

I don’t know if that has anything to do with anything. We went through clip by clip. He doesn’t have the ball in his hands any more now than he did at the other position....

It’s a 50-plus win team with two of the top 10 players in the league (O’Neal, Dwayne Wade). With Shaq, we’ll try to collapse on him when he catches it and then make him play...

This is almost my 20th year [as coach and player] and I’ve never seen it.

I can only speak about [Monday’s] game, and I didn’t think there was anything outrageous going on out there. We fouled too much. Maybe two calls on Carmelo were debatable, but the rest of them...

Ben made shots. He got hot early, missed a couple and got it going again.

If they continue that trend that they apparently never foul, that will go a long way toward them advancing (in the playoffs).

We’d like to have some control over (our destiny). It will be very difficult to do, because we know that we have to play great teams, but that’s what we would like to happen.

We’ve had so many close games in which we weren’t able to make the big plays at the end.

I thought the guys rallied. We came out in the third quarter with a lot more intensity.

Anytime you get on that kind of roll in the NBA, it’s not only impressive, but guys are playing with more confidence. They appear to be playing very well together. They’re a well-rounded team, good...

Maybe we could have taken more fouls. He just powered us.

He’s setting off a chain of events that we’re having a hard time dealing with.

We were too fast on offense, our spacing was poor and we missed some shots.

Even though he was hurt ? he played some, didn’t play some ? it was nice to have him around every day. There are few players who seem to see the plays before they actually...

We lost Shawn Marion too many times. I know from experience, he’s a very slippery player and he has a knack for finding the cracks in the defense. … I’m going to look at tape...

If you never done it the way Kirk does it, it’s hard to explain how hard it is to chase some of the game’s best players around 2, 3, 4 screens sometimes in the same...

He set screens and got in front of the rim. He played with more energy on offense. And tonight was very aggressive, unlike earlier in the year.