That's the kind of shot we want him to take. He makes that shot all the time in practice, so why not shoot it in the game? When he took the shot I was fairly confident the shot was going in. Any shot he takes I'll run with.
DeMarcus Nelson
Any team we play, you might as well throw their record out of the window because they're not going to play like their record against us. But that's what makes each win for us even more special, because we really have to go out and fight each game.
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They're a very, very hungry team; they're scrappy. In Johnson and Thornton, they have two very athletic big men who really go after it hard, and they have good shooters around those two guys. And they're a very athletic team.
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We have to get better. We have to establish that edge and fire in each and every one of us. People put out there that we're invincible and each loss out there kind of hits us over our head.
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It's a bad feeling we have to leave here with.
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Losing is never an option. Every game we play, we want to win. We put everything we have into winning, and, you know, it hurts.
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You always want to go into March, the most important part of the season, with a lot of momentum, a lot of confidence.
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They got a lot of easy buckets in transition, either getting rebounds or steals. They just got a lot of run-outs, and we didn't get back and we didn't play Duke defense. We didn't play like our normal selves on the defensive end. That made a big difference in this game.
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If a team leaves me open, I almost feel it's an insult and I'm shooting that ball with confidence. All of our guards have been drilled and prepared to take those shots and we're ready for them.
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All I wanted to do was make him take tough, contested shots.
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