Andres Nocioni Quotations

We're happy because we're playing really, really well. We're creating and taking open shots and we're running the offense.

Shoot 25 balls in one minute? It's impossible for me. It's not my game. I know that.

I don't care. I want to work for the team, and that's it. I don't think about improved player, sixth man. If my teammates know I'm improved, that's enough.

I saw the tape and I saw that I hit him. It wasn't intentional. When he hit me, I thought he was crazy. But I just want to say I'm sorry. You know how I play. It wasn't intentional.

I was in my spot and he came to me. I said, 'OK, stay here for the charge.

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.

(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 need to play like this every night. We lost, but we played hard and aggressive. If we play like this every night, we'll win a lot of games.

We played much better defense. We played Chicago Bulls defense.

We played hard all night. We played with intensity and we played a great four quarters. We kept working and we won a huge game for us.

We have to keep fighting. We have to be ambitious every time.

We need to think about no shots for Shaquille O'Neal. We need to stop O'Neal, but we need to stop the other guys, too.

We need to think about no shots for Shaquille O'Neal.

At home we've played very bad. That's the reality. We finished good, but we had problems at home.

We need to go back to Chicago and take care of our court. We need to win the next two games then come here again. That's it. It's the playoffs, man. We can win two games at home.

At the end, I noticed they were a little angry and frustrated, but that's to be expected.

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.

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.

It's still going to be hard. It's going to be hard, but it's not impossible.

If my team knows I improved, that's enough.

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.

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.