“You would think on the outside looking in that it might be. But again, it's a crap shoot. You just never know. It might be something that ends up being magical and works right from the beginning. It might be what everybody's expecting and a process in which you slowly get better. ... It seems like two different teams going at it from two different angles, but both with the same goal in mind.”
“If you win 50 or more games, ... you should only have to play two exhibitions. Forty to 49, you play three; 30 to 39, you play five; and under 30 you play eight. That way, the teams that really need the work will play more games.”
“Had something happened, it would have been the business side of basketball. Now that nothing happened, it's back to trying to help defend and repeat a title.”
“We didn't play aggressively in the second quarter. The game doesn't allow you to mess around. As hard as we played in the second half, it didn't make a difference.”
