Maurice Cheeks Games Quotations

It was important for us coming home for these four games that we establish some home-court (advantage), so when teams come in here they realize they have to play their best game to beat us.

It's something that we've talked about this season in terms of (Iverson) being a team leader. The past three games he's been phenomenal from taking over the game to his overall leadership.

We have to get other guys involved. We're not just trying to win games with Allen and Chris doing all the scoring.

We all think that Andre is this veteran player, because he has played so many games in his first two seasons. We take for granted that he should be at another level, but he has to grow a little more.

We have too many breakdowns. I think that we have to go back to the one, two, three of defense rotations, and getting guys in different positions. The only way that you can win games if you are relying on your offense night in and night out, is you have to outscore teams. We're not going to outscore teams, so our defense has to go back to the fundamentals of teaching positions.

We can't have games like San Antonio and Chicago anymore. That's not going to cut it. We have to be on the floor competing night in and night out.

I knew it would be a lot like the last three games we had, and we'd have to win it down the stretch. We had a lot of guys step up when AI went down.

No, we lost four of five games and it didn't matter who it was. We had to win a basketball game and it so happened to be against Portland.

When you play a team that has come back and beat you each time in some form or fashion, it can play little mind games on you.

Not at all. We just need to play the way we have been playing the last couple of games.

You won't win games by going 0-for-19, but you will never, ever win a game going 0-for-19 and 24 turnovers. It's amazing we were that close in the game.

We know how these games are. We've been on the other side. We had games we thought we won, and the other team came back. San Antonio had the game won.