Flip Saunders Grind Quotations

One of the strengths of this team is we grind it defensively but we get fast break points. We have the opportunity to get points in the open floor.

This season, as much as anything, has been a grind. When you win 63 games and how you've played, it's as much as mental grind as it is physical.

If you took a team from the West and made it play in the East on a nightly basis, they would find out how tough it is. It's such a grind. The East is tougher mentally. It's a grind night in and night out. . . . Trust me. The East is not as bad as they make it out to be.

Before the season, we said there were going to be two tough stretches -- being on the road so much early and this one, where we are playing 10 games in 10 different cities leading into the break. We knew it would be tough. We're just trying to grind our way through.