Corey Maggette Quotations

Chris Kaman has been his pupil. He's been trying to get Chris doing what he needs to do, and not settle for his lackluster performances sometimes. I think Coach has really been pushing him to be a better player. Now Chris is playing better, he's getting more confident, and our team is playing a lot better when he plays well. So it's great to see that.

I felt OK. I was trying to help out in any way that I could. First game back, a lot of shots were short. Maybe it was fatigue. But I can only get better.

For sure. I'm always ready to get out there and do whatever the team needs, but Coach isn't really playing me significant minutes right now. That's fine. We're winning, so I'll just wait my turn and bring it off the bench.

I expect to play hard. What I do is based on getting to the basket, drawing fouls, and getting to the line.

He's definitely the Most Valuable Player. He takes control of his team, puts them in great positions to make shots and he's been doing that the whole time. Every time he does that, they get great looks.

I was begging them, too. But they told me to wait until Friday.

We just didn't come out with the energy that we were supposed to. They jumped all over us and were very aggressive and attacked us.

We're not there yet, but it's not blurry.

Without him, it's like 30 points that's gone. So you can't really make that up. You need to have a lot of players make that up, and they just can't do it right now.

We need to have a different focus. If we settle for just making the playoffs, we're going to get beat in the first round.

The thing we need to do now is not get complacent about 42. The biggest thing now is to continue to play with the energy we play with, and prepare ourselves right now for the playoffs.

There were so many people in foul trouble that it puts you at a disadvantage when you're trying to play aggressive defense.

It just shows what our team can do. When we execute and do what we're supposed to do, it's hard for teams to beat us - even the world champs.

It's great. I think the biggest thing now is not to get complacent. We still have to strive for the best.

I made two crucial mistakes on the last two possessions, and I'm going to take it like a man. Those plays were my fault. Kaman was doing a great job, I should have just left Tinsley with Kaman.

I never expected to play as much as I did and score as much as I did, ... I'm glad they had the confidence in me, coming back for the first game, to do those types of things.

I have never won here. We don't play well against this team or in this building. That needs to change.

I know he expects big things out of me.

I haven't experienced this. It's great man, just great to see the guys who, especially me, have been here the longest and have seen this happen.

His biggest thing is, ... is that we can do something different. Teams are starting to understand we're not the same old Clippers.'

I don't think Indiana is a better team than us. They just executed better than us.

You can't get overconfident. But we know we can beat (the Nuggets), there's no doubt in my mind.