“This is the right way. This is good because on a national team you can't have 12 star players. You need role players. Can't play with 12 star players. Too many want the ball, too many want to play.”
“(The Americans) need to learn to play together. When we beat USA, it always was because they had some problem on the team, they don't want to play, or somebody's angry with the coach because they played 5 minutes.”
“We play great for a half, with a lot of energy, [and] we play calm in the offense. In the second half, we lost energy on defense, we lost concentration on the game. These things happen a lot this year. We should be more keen on getting to the playoffs.”
“I played a good game, but I'm so happy because the team won. The last time I played well and we lost. For me the most important thing is to make the playoffs.”
“Sometimes we have pressure in the last five minutes and today that happened again. I think everybody is thinking about that. Everybody has to play relaxed and make free throws and hit the open shots. We are professionals.”
“I played a good game, but I'm happy because the team won. That's the most important. I played good last game, but the team lost. For me, the most important thing is the playoffs.”
“I think everybody was thinking about that -- we've lost a lot of games at the end of the games. I think sometimes we have pressure in the last five minutes, and today it happened, too. But we need to work with that because we always have pressure.”
