Quotations

«It was a great feeling, man. My first time being here, people embracing me the way they were. It's something I'm going to cherish ... It kind of made me more nervous, just wanting to give them a good show.»

«If I start thinking about who's on the opposing team and I've got to play well against that team, then the next night when we play against guys without the big names, then you don't play so well. So you try and keep a consistent approach.»

«You can put a murderer in a suit, and he's still a murderer.»

«We just cracked. We had this game. We're not supposed to lose that one. I would rather get blown out.»

«They knock Shaq about his free throws. I'm the one that needs to be getting knocked.»

«It was great. It felt like we turned that corner. We had leads going into the fourth quarter and we weren't able to sustain them.»

«I guess it's just having time to play with each other and learning each other, just finding out how he wants to play and vice versa. He told me coming into the season that he wasn't doing his job if I didn't average four or five more points than I had been, and he was right because I am. ... We work together. We find out what plays we want to run. When we call plays for him, he tells me things he can do to get me an easy basket. And when a play is called for me, I let him know, if they take certain things away from me, what I can get for him. So it's just having some chemistry, being together and having a coach that understands that both of us need the ball and understands how both of us want to play.»

«I'm as disappointed as everybody else on my team. We wanted to go into the holidays with a win. We'll have to get this one out of our system and come back to work.»

«I told him before the play that if both men went to me, to go to the basket and get a good shot. Things didn't go the way we wanted tonight.»

«John is going to feel bad because of the situation. Probably he will react to something not that serious because of the situation.»