Carmelo Anthony Shot Quotations

Wally hit some big shots and they got some easy baskets.

It was a broken play. We didn't have anything when they jumped out on our pick- and-roll. I wanted to take the last shot whether I missed it or I made it, which I didn't. I've made more than I've missed at the end of the game.

Give the Clippers credit. They tried to take the ball out of my hands. We missed shots we normally make. We kept fighting and kept competing. I feel very good about this series.

We came out sluggish but you can't take anything away from the way they shot the ball in the first half. Coming in here and starting off the way we did, we had to finish hard. The last five minutes we buckled down and took control of the game. We feel more confident in close games.

They shot . . . near 80 percent out there. Everybody had a hot hand. It was hard to adjust our defense to everybody out there.

Shawn Marion overplayed it, he reached, and once I saw that, I knew I had a clear shot at the basket once I got my feet set. I wanted to win, even before I got my face smacked. Then I got energy from that, even though Eddie did it.

Yeah, I think that was the best of any big shot I've hit, most likely. I didn't have nothing to do, but to shoot.

I think in certain situations last year and the year before last I would have tried to take that shot with three people on me. But I've seen even if I don't shoot the ball to win the game, I can win the game by passing it out of a double team.

My confidence level is out of this world right now. I feel every shot I put up there is going in.

There was no way I could have taken the final shot tonight. They had three people right there, and Earl Watson was wide open.

We should have put them away earlier than we did. For my teammates to step up and hit shots helped me out tonight.

I knew they were going to double- team, triple-team me. I was missing shots that I would never miss. Shots that I have to take. Shots around the basket. . . . That was their game plan. They want somebody else to beat them.

I knew my shot wasn't going in from the outside, so I decided to keep on going to the hole and get some fouls called.

I knew I was going to get a shot up. It was just a matter of what type of shot I was going to get.

Every time we play San Antonio, it's always going to be tough. They send two or three people at me. . . . I knew my shot wasn't going down from the outside. I just tried to keep going to the hole and get some fouls.

I live for stuff like that, getting the ball in the last seconds. Whether I make the shot or miss it, I would rather put that pressure on me.