“I just told him, the first day I got here, I'll make his job look easy. The stuff he does, I'll make it come easy to him.”
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“He's very solid and underrated. He doesn't mind that as long as he gets respect from his peers.”
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“Well, sorry for them, but we're not going to be in the lottery this year. If this team doesn't have injuries, we're not going to be a part of that.”
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“Vince Carter is such a great player that we need two guys to try to stop him. When we got there to try to stop him, we got there too late and he either made the shot or we fouled him.”
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“We didn't come out with the aggressiveness we need to be successful. We need to win the hustle game and we didn't. When you see who wins the hustle game, you don't need to look at the box score.”
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“When we don't come out with energy, we get our butts kicked. If we're going to be a good team, we can't come out and lay eggs like this on the road.”
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“Who would have thought that about us before the season. I'm proud of where we're at. But we need our whole team together. Corey can't do what I can do, I can't do what Corey can do.”
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“I can't go 1 for 12 and expect my team to win.”
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“It affects me a little bit because I'm used to having the ball 90 percent of the time on the court, but I can't use that as an excuse at all. I've got to find a way. I'm getting shots that I normally make, but they're not going in. I just can't go 1-for-12 and expect us to be successful.”
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“They made shots. They've got two great players in Ricky and Paul who can shoot off the dribble, so nothing they did tonight really surprises me.”
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“Lots of guys don't want the ball in the fourth quarter in the last three minutes of the game. I think that is the easiest time of the game to get the ball. So I try and get the ball and do the things I can do.”
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“Everyone is a critic right now; everybody is a mastermind of basketball. Flip is a hell of a coach. Flip doesn't shoot the basketball, doesn't get one rebound. I can't abide by that [criticism]. We believe in Flip; he believes in us.”
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“Ah, no. We've played in some really loud gyms before. This is like a wine-and-cheese crowd.”
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“It was definitely a big win for us. This was a game that we really needed. It would be sweet if we could get the win (Saturday), too.”
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“Elton has always played consistently, but now we're winning basketball games and people are finally taking notice.”
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“I'm just doing what I'm supposed to do. Since I was a rookie I was groomed to make shots down the stretch.”
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“We're just the same old Clippers. That's all we are. We're just the same old Clippers. We want teams to continue to take us lightly.”
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“I couldn't believe I was that wide open.”
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“Elton will never get a million-and-something votes.”
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“How are you not going to get up to play in the Garden. I try to win and I took what the defense gave me. It's a team effort that's why we won the game tonight.”
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“It was just precaution, nothing major. We've got a couple of games coming up at home, so I talked with Mike, and took the night off to heal. I'll get two days rest and I'll be ready to play Friday.”
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“I come in here as the leader and just giving us that confidence that we can win on a nightly basis.”
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“I'm an All-Star in my mind. You don't have to have somebody tell you that, to be an All-Star. It doesn't work that way.”
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“We've got a chance to be special. We've got a chance to be very, very special.”
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“He was in there battling against the big guys. He got them. Rebounding is about desire.”
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“This (loss) really doesn't sting. But it's a learning process for us. We learned that when we allow a team to play harder than us, this can happen. We understand why we lost this ball game. We had so many defensive lapses. We'll regroup, go back to the drawing board, and come back Tuesday with a better effort than we had tonight.”
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“This team needed leadership. But you have to want to be led. I get on my guys because we have a chance to be special. To be very special.”
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“Elton is our horse. No one will deny that. But we need to get Corey back. We need Z back. We need all of our guys.”
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“I don't think he tipped it. I just shot it short. I shot it short over a 7-foot guy.”
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“Our season goes up and down and we are going to find a way to get it back. We don't have a monkey on our back. We have a gorilla.”
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“We can't allow ourselves to get down like that before we start playing basketball.”
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“I think it was our communication on defense. When we do that, we're at our best. When we don't communicate, we get our butts whipped. It's just that simple. In the first half, we weren't communicating properly and they were having their way with us. In the second half, we went to the zone and communicated better, and the result was a 20-point win.”
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“We're glad he got in foul trouble. He's an excellent ballplayer. Just to see him and Elton Brand go at it, trying to figure each other out, that was magnificent.”
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“That was my first time ever doing that. I've seen it done a lot of times. It did affect me because everything I did, I felt it.”
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“From the first day of camp, I said this team could win 50, and we've got a chance to do it. We've had our ups and downs, we've gone through some things with all the injuries, but my guys never give up.”
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“It's going to take more than one year. But we've got a heck of a start. No doubt about it, L.A. is a great place, especially when you're winning.”
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“It's more than just having a winning season. I'm looking forward to getting in the playoffs and trying our best.”
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“It'll be something brand new to everybody. It's going to be culture shock. I've talked to everybody, talked to them about what I expect from them and what they're going to get from me.”
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“People tend to give me a lot of credit for the turnaround, but Elton Brand is our horse, as he goes, we go. My job is to put us in the right direction, lead us, get us through what we need to do and I think I've been doing that.”
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