“The biggest difference is that guys are getting along so well off the court. There's a bond and a trust between us that wasn't fully there last year.”
“One thing about their team people may have underestimated is that they're playing extremely hard. I think that that's been a big part of their success.”
“We knew they were a desperate team and that they'd come after us. They started feeding off their crowd and seemed to be scoring every time down the floor. We sort of lost our patience for a few minutes.”
“It was one of those games that I've sort of been waiting for; a good game like that. It's something I've always been very capable of doing. Maybe I was a little more assertive, a little more aggressive, because that's what the game called for and that's what I needed to do.”
