He’s in the best shape of his pro career. We’re excited about it. Hopefully he can settle in now and work on his game and have a great year.

We had a nice rhythm going. We just started fouling. We had about 10 more field goals at the half, yet it was still a game. Usually you are running away with a game like...

I think that, if maybe something so bizarre ever happens one time, (the NBA) will take a look at (the seeding system). That’s probably what it’s going to take. Some crazy thing.

This would have been a real shame if somehow we would have lost it at the end after playing as hard as we played. In the first half we played really well, but we were...

Most games, when you have more field goals than your opponent, you win in our league. For us, most times, we haven’t won. We just juggle players because of foul trouble too much, and we’ve...

I guess, yeah, you could say. It would unrealistic to expect Ben to score 30 games a game.

No, I wouldn’t have. I had Luc in Phoenix. Sorry, Luc.

When you’re around him every day, you can tell. He wears [his emotions] on his sleeve. He just appeared to be a little bit different, and now he’s back.

We waited 2 1/2 quarters before we got any energy going.

If you look around the league, other than the top teams, all the teams try to get to be a consistent team. The only way you get to be a consistent team is if you...

I think he is the most improved player [in the league]. His personality has definitely come out this year.

He plays 20 minutes a game and consistently blocks shots all over the place. He’s a great defender and still changes ends very well. He’s an intimidating-type player. To have a backup center like him...

We haven’t yet in either game played the kind of defense that we’ve played the whole year to get a gauge on how we can play against (Miami).

We’ll go down there and try to get other guys the ball on the move, whereas Eddy could sort of overpower people sometimes. We may have to be a little more clever about how we’re...

In the third quarter we got up on those guys and made them penetrate. We were there to take the charge. When things stopped going our way for just a couple of minutes, that all...

Even if the [money] was much smaller, you’d still feel some obligation to perform. But I don’t think any of us said we expect Tyson to be a different player.

Hopefully we’ll have [Deng] ready for Thursday. We can use all the wings we can get for Thursday’s game.

The stat sheet does not really show it, but they pretty much out-played us from beginning to end. We had a hard time in the early going even following our simple game plan. We tried...

But Mike knows what’s expected of him. Hopefully, I can get him a chance sometime here soon. I just happen to like the guys in front of him right now, the way that they’re playing.

We have 31 games left and are outside looking in so every game is critical. Late in the game when we have the lead, those are games we have to get.

We were all disappointed after the game the other night, and we did not play with the urgency we needed in such a big game.

With 18 games to go they do not get much bigger. It is not as if we don’t win we are out of it, or if we do win it does anything devastating to Milwaukee....

Luke’s an interesting player. He’s got size, good hands, a nice touch. We can use size right now.

My guys almost every night battle really hard. They’ve had a lot of things go against them in late game situations and we haven’t been able to seize the moment. Lately, we’ve been able to...

We just talked about it with the guys; we want to move up. That’s what we’ll keep our focus on now.

Jason Williams, sort of in a quiet manner, hurt us.

We wanted to get off to a better start and we did. We were comfortable out there and relaxed yet focused at the same time.

Eddy was big for us but he was also a high turnover player and there were times when we went in another direction anyway, … So, everybody’s got to do it [offensively]. We don’t have...

I gave it some thought until he missed the first bus and came on the second bus, and the thought was over. That was the end of that thought.

We’re the hunted and they’re going to be coming after us.

I would never commit ahead of time that he wasn’t going to play. I would hate to tell somebody they’re not going to play or their minutes would be limited, then all of a sudden...

At that point, you call an automatic timeout. All you have to do is watch a couple of NBA games to know it’s a timeout. We had guys out there with enough experience out there...

Paul pretty much had his way with us the whole night.

I’m happy for our guys. You have to always wonder if they’re going to get dejected because we’ve had so many close calls in games where we weren’t able to make the big plays. We’re...

It wasn’t like we had a total letdown or anything; we just softened up enough to let him get going. And once he got going, it was very difficult to get any momentum back. Early...

I get the impression sometimes that people think there’s some sort of magic dust that the coach can sprinkle over the guys to make them aware of everything. We talk to our guys every day...

There were times when he’d [mentally] take himself out of a game by almost trying too hard. He doesn’t get rattled by one or two mistakes [anymore], because he knows he belongs out there. He’s...

The hard thing is trying to beat a team twice in a short period of time. It’s always difficult.