Can't pick and choose when you're gonna be a leader. If you're gonna be it - gotta do it every day.
I haven't played defense in a couple years.
They talked about teamwork. That's all it is. It's about team effort. No particular player trying to outshine each other. Playing unselfishly and believe. Good things will come.
I'm a point guard, so I want to see everybody else score and be happy. I don't necessarily need to score at all. I could be happy with zero points as long as it was a team game and everybody contributed.
I never doubted myself. It just didn't work.
Everything happens for a reason; I'm a big believer in that.
I will never play for the Miami Heat.
Whatever my team needs - that's what I do.
I'm a competitor. I never doubt myself.
Every team doesn't fit every person's style of play.
Every player, every coach doesn't always see eye to eye.
I don't know, you go through what you go through. You handle adversity, and I think it made me hungrier.
When you lose, nobody likes it and you start turning on each other.
Coach showed he believed in me. So I had to believe in myself.
We just played unselfishly. At times this year, we've played selfish, but today we passed the ball. ... We were just very supportive of each other.
Always people have counted me out since I got in the league. It never made me any difference. I kept myself around positive people, got a great support system and just kept at it.
As I grew up, I played in sandals. I played in flip-flops all the time back in the day. That's why I didn't really care about spraining my ankles. When I first started in the NBA, I loved low-cuts. I can play (in them), because I used to grow up playing in flip-flops all the time.
I was always about the team, regardless of our relationship wasn't working out or didn't work out.
I could play through anything. But just thinking about I have kids, longevity, I probably would have made more of a conscious effort not to hit the floor, but at the end of the day in the playoffs, you can't play that way. You just have to play and give it your all.
I always try to push myself, even more now because evidently I'm not doing something right. I'm trying to do the little things that count in practice to try and get my job back.
I always get up for every game, but this game is especially big. It's a do-or-die thing. This could be (decide) whoever wins the regular-season championship.
I feel like nobody can stop me off the dribble. At crunch time, we're looking for somebody to score and I definitely want to be the guy who has the ball in his hands.
They got a lot of easy baskets and rebounds. That is what killed us.
I just try to keep rebounding the ball as much as I can. I just go out there and do what needs to be done and don't worry about my stats.
We're looking forward to the tournament. We still believe that if we play with effort, we can beat anyone. We just can't have those 2-3-minute lapses.
